Black Over-Travel Ball Bearing Slides for Dark-Interior Cabinets and Worktop Drawers

This is a 22 inch over-travel side-mount ball bearing drawer slide from Knape and Vogt's 8405 series, rated 100 lb per pair, with an Ebony Black finish that disappears against dark cabinet interiors. The slide extends 1 inch past full travel, clearing countertop overhangs and deep face frames to put the full drawer within reach.

Key Features

• Ebony Black finish blends into dark-stained, painted, or melamine cabinet interiors instead of standing out like a zinc slide would.
• 1 inch of over-travel carries the drawer member past the slide's nominal length, clearing overhanging worktops so the back of the drawer is fully reachable.
• 100 lb rating per pair covers standard kitchen, office, and utility drawers with a confident margin.
• Hold-in anti-rebound detent keeps the drawer closed and stops it from bouncing back open when shut firmly.
• Non-handed design means both slides in the pair are identical — no sorting left from right on the bench.
• Steel ball bearings in full-length raceways deliver smooth, consistent travel from the first pull to the last.

Where Over-Travel Makes the Difference

A standard full-extension slide stops at the cabinet face. An over-travel slide keeps going — 1 inch further — so a drawer under a countertop overhang or behind a thick face frame still clears the obstruction at full open. That extra inch is not a luxury detail on a kitchen drawer under a deep stone counter; it is the difference between reaching the back corner and digging for it. The 22 inch slide length suits drawers in base cabinets with typical 22 to 24 inch interior depths, and the over-travel extends the working reach beyond what the nominal length implies.

Finish and Construction

The Ebony Black powder finish serves two purposes: it reduces visual noise inside cabinets built with dark interiors, and it adds a layer of corrosion protection over the cold-formed steel members. This is an indoor finish suited to dry cabinet environments. The slide is not stainless and is not rated for wet or washdown conditions. Steel ball bearings run in formed steel raceways the full length of the slide — the mechanism that makes the travel feel the same whether the drawer is empty or loaded.

Who Reaches for This Slide

Cabinet shops and installers who spec dark interiors consistently pull this SKU because the black finish keeps the hardware from reading as a visible seam beside an open drawer. It fits kitchen drawers under overhanging stone or butcher-block counters, shop workbenches where the overhang extends past the drawer front, and office credenzas with deep face frames. The hold-in anti-rebound detent makes it equally at home in commercial installations where drawers take hard closes and need to stay shut. The slide ships in a Bulk-Pack format, which suits shop floors running multiple drawers in the same job rather than single-drawer retail installs. One pair per drawer.

The Right Slide, Finished Right

When the job calls for over-travel reach and a finish that stays out of sight in a dark interior, the KV 8405 in Ebony Black handles both without a compromise on load capacity or drawer feel.