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Took me 3 hours to replace a 15 minute part because of one stupid clip
Was swapping out the hinge on my old Stanley toolbox that finally gave out after 12 years. Should have been simple, but the retaining clip on the pin was some weird proprietary design I'd never seen before. Spent an hour digging through old forum posts and another 2 trying to bend it back with pick tools and a pair of needle-nose. Has anyone else run into these weird clips on older toolboxes? Wondering if there's a trick or if I should have just drilled it out from the start.
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susan4244d ago
Oh man, I feel your pain on those weird clips! Pro tip nobody talks about: sometimes those things are actually designed to be single use and you're not supposed to reuse them at all. I found out the hard way after breaking three pick tools on a Craftsman box from the 90s. Next time try hitting the clip area with a heat gun for like 30 seconds before you mess with it, the metal gets soft enough to bend without snapping. Saved me a ton of headache on my last restoration project.
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miawalker4d agoTop Commenter
Yeah the heat gun trick is a game changer, I keep a cheap one in the garage just for stuff like that. Actually cracked the same kind of clip before I learned to warm them up first.
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