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    Restoring my Grand-dad's Toolbox. HELP

    My friend who is a sheet metal HVAC guy is confident he can make a new bottom piece. I can take stuff apart with the best of them but custom work is not my skill at all. Here is the WWII Bronze Star certificate of the original owner, my grandpa. I want to keep the certificate in his old toolbox...
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    Restoring my Grand-dad's Toolbox. HELP

    Thanks for the comments. In the message that I typed out that disappeared ... I was asking ... How does the top and front cover come off--do you pull or pound that rod out of the long hinge? And the handles on the drawers--do you just drill them out from the backside in order to get them out...
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    Restoring my Grand-dad's Toolbox. HELP

    Triple is a 400 S3A that I started last Fall with my youngest son. We're about 90% finished with sort of a restore. I bead blasted the frame and had it powdercoated, my ex-Kawi mechanic did the engine, I spent about 3 nights in the garage steel-wooling the rust off the wheels. Etc. I'm not a big...
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    Restoring my Grand-dad's Toolbox. HELP

    Bummer. I just submitted a bunch of text via "preview" and then it was gone.
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    Restoring my Grand-dad's Toolbox. HELP

    We measured the bottom, and kept the bottom piece, presuming we'd have to bend and cut a replacement. I also have a friend who bends sheetmetal for a HVAC place. He's confident that he can make another one. There's no ID on the box anywhere. Thanks for any and all help.
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    Restoring my Grand-dad's Toolbox. HELP

    My mom bought a box off a truck in the 1950s and gave it to my grandpa for his birthday. 50 + years later I am trying to give it a light restore, but am stuck at trying to get the drawers out of the box. I've cut off the rusty bottom and have a lot of the drawer guides exposed--I just cannot...
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