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This is a 1/4 inch round, screw-on nylon spacer from Bainbridge Manufacturing, designed to offset a drawer slide from the cabinet side so the slide sits plumb, level, and aligned with the drawer front. White finish blends cleanly into white cabinet interiors and melamine panels.
Drawer slides need a flat, parallel mounting surface to run straight and carry their rated load evenly. Face-frame cabinets with angled or stepped sides, frameless boxes with slight panel bow, and retrofit installs in older casework all present surfaces that are not quite right. Dropping a 1/4 inch spacer between the cabinet side and the slide member corrects a small gap or misalignment without shimming with scrap material or adding a filler strip. The same spacer also handles planned offsets — for example, bringing a slide face-flush with a face-frame stile when the construction requires it. Because the offset is fixed at exactly 1/4 inch, the correction is consistent from one screw location to the next, which matters on slides where parallel tracking is required for smooth operation and full load rating.
Nylon (polyamide) is the right material for this job. It does not creep or crush under the compressive load of a mounting screw the way a softer plastic would, and it does not corrode, splinter, or absorb moisture the way a wood shim would. The white color matches standard white epoxy Euro slides and white melamine cabinet interiors, so the installed spacer reads as part of the cabinet rather than as improvised packing. For cabinets in other finish families, Bainbridge makes these spacers in additional colors — check the catalog for the finish that matches your interior.
Production cabinet shops that run white-interior frameless or face-frame lines keep these on hand to handle the occasional panel that came in slightly off or the run where the slide needs to be pulled forward to align with hardware. Installers working in existing kitchens find them useful for retrofit slide upgrades where the original mounting surface is not perfectly plumb. The screw-on design means the spacer stays put while the slide is positioned, which matters when working solo in a finished cabinet. At 1/4 inch, this is the right spacer for a meaningful but modest offset — not a thin shim and not a full repositioning strip.
Stacking is possible but not recommended for structural mounting — a single stacked column of spacers is less stable than a single spacer of the correct thickness. If you need a 1/2 inch offset, use the 1/2 inch version in this series instead.
Nylon resists yellowing better than many plastics in an indoor, low-UV environment like a cabinet interior, but the spacer is concealed behind the slide once installed, so finish aging is not typically a concern in service.
These spacers are designed for screw-on mounting at side-mount slide positions. Undermount slide systems have engineered rear bracket and locking device geometries where a generic spacer may not seat correctly — check the slide manufacturer's installation spec before using a spacer in an undermount application.
The spacer is designed to sit around a standard mounting screw, but the specific clearance hole diameter is not listed in the product attributes. Verify the hole size against your mounting fastener before ordering in volume.
A drawer that binds, racks, or comes up short on load rating often traces back to a slide that was never quite parallel to its partner — and a 1/4 inch nylon spacer in white is a clean, permanent fix that costs less than the time spent troubleshooting a drawer that was close but not right.
Sold In: 1 Each
Quantity | Unit Price | Catalog | ||||
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Sold in: 1000 Each |  PL3612WH-M Mfr# 3612-62 | Bainbridge 1000-Piece Box Spacers, White, 3612-62 |