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First Toolbox (semi) Restoration

Lesserstore

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A few months back I got a Western Auto 3 drawer toolbox at an auction and it was kind of rough so I decided to repaint it. The drawers were easy to find paint for since they were about the same shade as Craftsman red, but the box it self was dark greyish color that I wasn't able to find so I went with black. I painted most of it with Rust-Oleum black, but I ran out so I grabbed some Walmart black thinking black is black, I was very wrong. So l went to Lowe's and I picked up a shade of brown called dark walnut and I like it better than the black. It still has dents in it but I'm not very experienced at fixing dents and I thought I would make it worse. The chrome pieces were very rusty so I painted over them. I'm missing the bottom drawer pull too. I still like how it turned out I plan to use it anyway so a few dents aren't a big deal.

Before pics can be found here: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=452639

Since the pics make the brown look black the third pic is a close up of the paint.
 

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Thanks! I think I'm going to use it for my deep sockets and long wrenches.
Since I can't find very many Western Auto toolboxes online and none like this one, here's all the info I can find:
The model number is 45-4889-7. The logo that was on a sticker on the bottom drawer was from 1975- early 80s. It was made by Waterloo as I have seen several with black plastic drawer pulls, but they had a machinist style brown crackle finish, but otherwise identical.
 
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