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DYNO360
 PostPosted: Fri Apr 16, 10 1:28 pm   
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Some tool chests have a front cover that can be stored at the top or bottom of the chest when opened.
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The lock on the front cover will secure one end, but how is the other end of the cover secured when in the locked mode?
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Eli Cleveland
 PostPosted: Fri Apr 16, 10 5:12 pm   
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You can use brass pins. I can't remember where to get them, but I think it was one of the big hardware suppliers: McMaster-Carr, MSC, etc. They are little pins with sockets they fit into. You just have to drill 1/4-ish" holes and glue them in.

You can also be fancy and make it one of those pocket door type things.

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DYNO360
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Thanks Eli. I have never had the chance to inspect a Gerstner type chest with a front panel, but I thought that might be one way. The pocket door installation poses another concern. Here's a picture of a chest with the doors opened.
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And here is the same chest with the doors closed.
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If I were to add a single cover and store it horizontally, you could add a 1/4" dowel on each lower edge of the cover and route a stop dado into the sides as a "guide" for the dowels to follow as the cover is inserted into the chest. The trouble would be that the cover would have to be added during the initial glue up and it would be captive. Correct?
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Eli Cleveland
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I was talking about doing that type of door, but as a single door that swung either up or down. It wouldn't have to be trapped, you could run the dadoes out the back. The dadoes would have to be done prior to the glue-up, though.

Is that toolbox from the Furniture Institute of Massachusetts? Do you know someone who went there?

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tiny
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No need to install prior to glue up, just use a spring loaded pin on each end of the door.

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DYNO360
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Thanks for the suggestion Tiny.
I don't know where I got the pictures Eli. When I am surfing and see a picture that I like, I just save it. I tried to retrace my steps to find where I got the picture and I found something more interesting, a miniature tool chest in 1:12 scale! I'll keep looking for the other photos. Here's the site.
http://www.toolchest-site.com/william-r ... tool-chest
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DYNO360
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Found it! It was on Fine Woodworking's Website. http://www.finewoodworking.com/item/140 ... tool-chest
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Another option is to make the front panel removeable with alignment/holding pins in the bottom and spring pins in the upper rail that are depressed into place by the top closing. Lee Valley carries these.

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LumberGuy
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DYNO360 wrote:
Some tool chests have a front cover that can be stored at the top or bottom of the chest when opened.
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Gerstner.jpg

The lock on the front cover will secure one end, but how is the other end of the cover secured when in the locked mode?

Here is one I made from cherry, it has a front panel that slides under the bottom drawer when opened. An aluminum plunger is pressed into the top of the panel when the lid is closed.
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The front panel has dowels that slide along a groove in the bottom of the sides.
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snaslund
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Here is how it is done. The dado the pins run in is stopped in the front but through to the back. You slide the panel in from the rear and then put on the back panel. If it ever needs repairs you remove the back panel. Look up barristers bookcases to see this setup.

Steve
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