brianpgriset
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During my typical CL add scanning I came across an add for "two heavy duty cabinets". Upon close inspection of the pictures i recongnized that it was two Stanley Vidmar floor cabs; althought they wern't originally configured that way. It appeared in the pictures that either the current or previous owners had taken a single Vidmar cabinet and had cut in half to make two floor cabinets.
I went ahead and gave a call. The owner said all hardware and drawers were in place and just wanted to get rid of them. I figured they were worth it. Cost was $75 for both. Nice price, just alot of work to get them back to proper condition.
Picked them up and as I suspected it was a single cabinet that had been cut in half. Suprisingly whomever had done it did an OK job with the cut; it was pretty straight. Anyways I got them home and started working on them. Here is where they (I guess it would be "it" now since its back to a single box) are now:
I installed three drawers to see how well I did to align the two halves. The top two drawers are acroos the weld seam and the bottom two are not, so you can see the two gaps are pretty darn close. I'm pleased.
Drawers and slides. I cleaned up the bearings and re-greased and they roll like a dream again
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Here are the pieces of wood
dunno and sheet metal the PO used to make two cabs. It was pretty awful.
And where the cab will sit once it's done next to my Lista one. I told my wife it's the last toolbox I'll ever buy!
Still need to finish weld; plannish, smooth, and paint. I'll have $75 and maybe 8-10 hours total time in it, so that for a 9 drawers Vidmar cab is pretty good to me!
I went ahead and gave a call. The owner said all hardware and drawers were in place and just wanted to get rid of them. I figured they were worth it. Cost was $75 for both. Nice price, just alot of work to get them back to proper condition.
Picked them up and as I suspected it was a single cabinet that had been cut in half. Suprisingly whomever had done it did an OK job with the cut; it was pretty straight. Anyways I got them home and started working on them. Here is where they (I guess it would be "it" now since its back to a single box) are now:
I installed three drawers to see how well I did to align the two halves. The top two drawers are acroos the weld seam and the bottom two are not, so you can see the two gaps are pretty darn close. I'm pleased.
Drawers and slides. I cleaned up the bearings and re-greased and they roll like a dream again
.
Here are the pieces of wood
dunno and sheet metal the PO used to make two cabs. It was pretty awful.
And where the cab will sit once it's done next to my Lista one. I told my wife it's the last toolbox I'll ever buy!
Still need to finish weld; plannish, smooth, and paint. I'll have $75 and maybe 8-10 hours total time in it, so that for a 9 drawers Vidmar cab is pretty good to me!
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That looks amazing. Nice work. I agree with Jack, time to do the blue one.