Deeper than spec'ed drawers with undermount slides?

[smorgasbord]

I'm looking at replacing some kitchen cabinet doors with shelves behind with drawers. Have used Blum Tandem in the past (25 years ago), now going with Salice Progressa Plus with the push-to-open feature to not require pull knobs/handles.

Here's Salice's diagram:


The "Inside cabinet depth" is 582mm, and as the diagram shows, the applied drawer face will overlap that. So, I could do this pretty easily, but I hate wasting that ~50mm of depth.

I'm thinking I don't actually have to mount the drawer slide so close to the front edge of the cabinet. The spec is for a setback of 4mm, which ties in with the front clips being attached to the inside face of the drawer box (under the bottom, of course), as in this Salice photo:



Now, imagine instead of making my drawer side 533mm long, I make it 580mm. Since the back of the slide registers against the outside back of the drawer box, the clip has to be mounted at the 533mm distance from that, which means it'll fall 580-533=47mm short of the inside of the drawer box front. But, looking at the photo above, that's OK - there are 3 screws going into the drawer bottom. Sure, there's provision for 2 screws into the drawer front. I could even glue in a 47mm block to fit in the space and then use all 5 screws.

I realize this means the drawer won't be quite full extension anymore - it'll leave 47mm of the drawer inside the cabinet, but I don't think that's a problem.

Has anyone done this? Is it as feasible as I think? Concerns?

 

[tjbnwi]

If you want to use the bottom screw holes you’ll need a 1/2” drawer bottom minimium.

By moving the clip back you created a new back plane of the drawer box front. What you want to do will work.

It takes more force to get the Salice clips to lock to the slides than the Blums.

The Salice steel is softer, we’ve had problems with the back hook bending. There is no rear tilt/side to side adjustment without adding an accessory Salice sells.

Tom