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The Sugatsune ESR-10 Series is a 28 inch full-extension side-mount ball bearing drawer slide built from 304 stainless steel and rated 400 lb per pair. It is the slide to reach for when the environment demands genuine corrosion resistance and the load demands more than any standard cabinet-class slide can deliver.
Most ball bearing drawer slides in this catalog are zinc-finished steel, which serves perfectly well in dry indoor cabinetry. The ESR-10 is the answer when the installation is not dry or not indoors. Food preparation areas, commercial kitchens, marine galleys, lab environments, and cold-storage applications put zinc finishes under chemical stress they are not rated to handle. The 304 stainless steel members resist that stress. The slide is also a natural fit for high-humidity shop environments, outdoor storage cabinets, and any installation where washdown cleaning is part of the routine. At 400 lb per pair, it also handles loads that have no business on a kitchen-class slide regardless of the environment.
Every member is 304 stainless steel — one of the most widely specified corrosion-resistant alloys in commercial fabrication. The finish is the material itself, not a plating or coating applied over a steel substrate that could chip, crack, or undercut. Ball bearings run in full-length raceways between the slide members for smooth, consistent travel. The hold-in anti-rebound detent is mechanical and integral to the slide, requiring no separate hardware. This is a standard-motion slide: the detent holds the drawer shut, but there is no damper, no closing spring, and no push-to-open mechanism.
Cabinet shops and fabricators building for food-service accounts, laboratory facilities, and marine applications will find the ESR-10 the right tool for those projects. Contractors installing heavy storage in commercial kitchens, utility rooms with wet floors, or stainless-clad cabinetry can spec it with confidence. The 400 lb per pair rating also makes it the right call for extremely heavy residential shop drawers and service counter work where a standard-class slide would be undersized. At 28 inches, it pairs with a drawer box built to the standard nominal length for this slide size, mounted with 1/2 inch of side clearance per side.
304 stainless performs well in most indoor and moderate-humidity marine environments. For direct saltwater exposure or offshore applications, 316 stainless is the preferred alloy. The ESR-10 is built from 304 stainless; confirm the specific environment against 304's corrosion-resistance ratings before specifying in aggressive saltwater conditions.
The detent is a mechanical catch that holds the drawer closed once shut and prevents it from bouncing back open when pushed firmly. It does not pull the drawer shut like a self-close spring, and it does not slow the drawer like a soft-close damper. The drawer stays where you put it until you pull it open.
Side-mount ball bearing slides in this class require 1/2 inch of side clearance per slide. Build the drawer box 1 inch narrower than the cabinet interior opening to leave the correct gap on each side. Confirm the ESR-10's side clearance specification against Sugatsune's published data for this series before cutting the box.
Slide length and drawer travel are separate specs. The 28 inch figure is the closed length of the slide. On a full-extension slide the drawer member travels approximately the full slide length, bringing the entire drawer box out to the cabinet face. The actual travel is determined by the slide's full-extension geometry, not by the slide length alone.
No. The ESR-10 is non-handed, so both slides in the pair are identical. Order the number of pairs your drawer count requires.
When the environment is harsh, the load is heavy, or both, the Sugatsune ESR-10 in 304 stainless steel delivers the corrosion resistance and 400 lb capacity to match — so the drawer works as well on day one thousand as it did on day one.
