Image - Cleaning locking mechanism
We quickly realized that each safe door weighed about 700 lbs and which required the use of heavy duty lift equipment to move the door around our studio safely. Once raised to table height and laid flat, we could easily work on the surface. For both doors to be worked on (front of one, and back of the other) we needed to disassemble all of the chrome plated iron framework attached to the back of each door, requiring us to move the doors more than once. All hardware had old discolored lacquer removed with solvents, dental picks, and surgical scalpels. Minimal areas of rusted iron, showing through areas where chrome plating was missing, were stabilized and then re-lacquered to show off its original brilliance. All locking mechanisms were disassembled, cleaned, and coated with lacquer for later assembly as well.