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| Someone rattle can painted the whole tool chest with a kind of goldish color paint. They painted over everything, including the bages and handle. |
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| To remove the Snap-on badge, these two push "nuts" need to be removed. It turned out easiest to just spin them off like nuts, using a pair of wide tip pliers. |
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| The lock tumbler has a large nut to spin off. The handle has two flat head screws. Both were easy to remove. |
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| To bend back the Sheetmetal, I used a piece of scrap steel (with cuts in it) that I had lying around as kind of a dolly while using a ball peen hammer (both sides, depending on the spot) to straighten the metal. Also used some different punches for hard to reach spots. |
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| Will strip the gold paint off the handle and badge. They should be either chrome or raw casting finished originally. Will take it back to the original surface. |
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| This RH rear corner of the lid was pretty bent. The hinge pin has also gotten pushed back. |
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| Got the metal back pretty close to where it needs to be. Also bent the hinge piece back in line and pushed the pin back in. |
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| The RH front top of the box, where the lid goes down and engages, is slightly bent. Straightened this also. |
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| The bottom of the LH side of the box is very bent (wavy). |
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| The left rear corner of the bottom is very bent. It looks like the box was dropped on this corner at one point. |
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| Straightening of the bent corner went better than I thought it would. It's pretty much straight, though a bit rusty. |
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| The three drawer front edges are also a bit bent. Using the hammer & dolly method, got them all straightened. |
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| This is before straightening. Had to stop working on the box for now. |
