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Vintage Veloce

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So this afternoon I found one of the drawers on my Hammerhead tool chest won't open. I won't joke about the cheap chest, as it has served me well for way more than 10 years.

I took out the drawer above and below and there is nothing stuck anywhere that I can see. The right slide seems OK, but the left slide is not moving at all. I tried whacking it in all the obvious ways. It really doesn't move at all.

I'm almost certain the problem is something on the left hand slider. Can anyone imagine what the problem might be and how to free the slide? Maybe a bearing came out and got wedged somehow?

The slide is attached to the drawer with rivets, and I can drill them off from inside the drawer. But before I do that... any better ideas?
 

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Tip the box upside down and bang on it. If something fell into the slide, maybe it will fall out. I had a similar issues on a similar looking slide, the stop unscrewed.
 
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Well, I just drilled the rivets out. There was some broken plastic bits really jammed in the slide somehow. You know, there are always a few broken plastic bits in the bottom of the chest, it's not clear to me what part of the slide is breaking. They all work fine, but the bits are there, so something must be fragging.
Looks to me like there is no way I would have solved this without drilling them out. Done now.
I just cleaned it up and riveted the rail back one, Problem solved.
 
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I really cannot easily tell what the plastic is coming from. There are lots of slides, so I'm not even sure which one to look at...
 
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