Tweaked my Rousseau

[littleponderosa]

Well, dropped a 12lb sledge - my bad - in my bottom drawer. Well, this had a rub I was going to get to but now it is contacting the lip of the box. Can I just use some 2' plus pipe clampd and pull it into shape? Clamp some angle iron to the lip and whack it into shape?
My 1st box repair of this nature so I'm fairly certain some expertise is needed.

I've aldo blown up my desktop cpu and the notebook couldn't pass the stress test. I be phone only.

 

[TheGrooveking]

When you listed Rousseau I thought it was going to be a portable table saw fence or cart related, not sure what I'm looking at.

TheGrooveking

 

[littleponderosa]

Its s lista/vidmar style box. Bottom drawer was overloaded at some point and hit lower frame hard enough to bend the box frame. Now the rub had become a contact spot. Need yo somehow pull thhr frame in then the contact area can be addressed. How should i do this?

 

[littleponderosa]

Anyone?

 

[littleponderosa]

I'm having a struggle fellas. How the hell can I straighten this frame back up without some damage and still be able to use this drawer?

I cannot be the only gent who has a sprung box.

From all appearances it was severely overloaded at some point, allowing the drawer to come into contact with the frame, rolling both pieces of frame metal up and out.
Thanks
Bill

 

[454ragtop]

Problem is the pic, at least for me, no idea what I'm looking at, and I have a Rousseau cabinet. Can you back up a little and show some clear pics of the damage, maybe even add some arrows or something.

 

[G_P]

This is just a suggestion, but why not get a piece of square tube, put it inside the damaged area, clamp it securely in multiple places, then grab the clamp closest to the center of the damage and use it as a lever to pry/bend the lip back into square?
Once you get the majority of it straight, you can work on the little parts to make it look like original again.