Removing the Internal Hardware

After the divide, I chose to work on the wardrobe side of the trunk, the drawer side was stored away until later. 

The first job to do was to remove the two timber edgings that supported the sides.  The nails were clinched over very close to the front edge. Wonderful workmanship by the trunk builder, but I must say it concerns me if I am to get nails to clinch into that same position again so they will stay tight enough.

More importantly, will I ever be able to get them to be as tight again like the original?  I will think about that problem later.

Nail before removal

 

Side timber removal.
The two damaged nail hooks had another use

Nail after removal

One of the holes left from a nail after the timber edging
was removed.
All these holes are very close to the metal as well as the top
edge of the trunk 

Next the sliding rail needed to be removed. Four clinched screws were taken out. Again, the angle of these screws concerned me, I thought how is something straight going to go back in at the angle these came out of. Another issue to look at later.

The middle hanging rail was bent. I decided to leave it as is because I feared trying to straighten it may cause the timber to split open. There were already two splits in the sliding rail that need to be looked at. I glued and taped them. 

The slider rail that needs to be removed

Slider rail support

The four clinched screws from the slider support.

A split in the dove tail joint

Splits in the pull out railing glue and tapped

Just in view, the leather tie down holder to be removed, it can be re-used.
Metal tie down clip to be removed, painted black and re-used.
The area showing where a leather strap was cut away from,
new straps to be fitted later

 I never got around to taking a close-up photo of the 2 leather cane/parasol holder before they were removed. However, I am hoping that I will be able to re-use them as well. I Will look at this area later.