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I recently got sucked in by the Snap-on name and paid a little too much for a bottom roll cabinet. I do need a small one for my shed at home [no garage] so I came home with this;
I should have taken a closer look as when I got it home, some of the drawers opened too much and the drawer would come off the slide. I checked with Snap-on but they no longer have parts for these boxes. So time to fix it myself.
There is a special tool used to release the stops so the drawer comes out. you can make one from a hacksaw blade by grinding off the teeth and giving it a slight bend ~ 1" in from the end. I didn't get a pic yet. You can google for a pic and description on how to use.
Any way, on to the fix.
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Richard
I should have taken a closer look as when I got it home, some of the drawers opened too much and the drawer would come off the slide. I checked with Snap-on but they no longer have parts for these boxes. So time to fix it myself.
There is a special tool used to release the stops so the drawer comes out. you can make one from a hacksaw blade by grinding off the teeth and giving it a slight bend ~ 1" in from the end. I didn't get a pic yet. You can google for a pic and description on how to use.
Any way, on to the fix.
copied and pasted
Hopefully this might help someone else fix their old box.So I went to a few stores looking for steel strapping/banding. I thought it was a good idea for a slide stop fix but I guess the times are a changing....only plastic nowadays! I decided that I would try using an old hacksaw blade and grind off the teeth to make a slide removal tool. I put the blade into a vise and ground the teeth
worked great as long as you use a good quality blade, a cheap one shatters when you try to bend it slightly on the end like you need to do to make the tool.
Here is both sides of an original stop
While I was making the tool I saw the hole at the end of the blade and thought it looked close to the same size as the hole in the slide. I ground the blade to size and length
Give it a slight bend to match the original stop
The new piece goes through the hole and I used a nail as a rivet
The "rivet" has to be peened quite flat or the drawer won't close properly. I used a punch with a 1/4" round flat end to flatten the nail and ended up using my 16 oz finishing hammer to pound it flat enough. I used a scrap piece of 1/4" flat stock under the rivet head while peening.
I fixed 4 slides and my box is working like new again!
Richard
