Unless you don't intend to stock very much weight in the drawers. Those style boxes were not known for having great drawer glides. With the tumbler out you should see the locking rod and might follow it to be sure if you need any of those parts in order to make it lock. If it were me, I would remove the tumbler (retainer clip underneath behind the box face) and take it to a locksmith. These days who knows if they will take the time. You can contact Mac Tools and send those pictures and suggest it's likely a 1970-1980 era box and you want to find parts. I mention it because some bottom roll-away boxes were stamped on the bottom. Some had sheet metal in the frame so it's a solid dolly and not an open frame dolly. That box might have a dolly-frame under it, a square frame with the four casters bolted into it, and the box sat on and was bolted to that frame. My bet is the back of the box was black-ink-stamped with the model info. Maybe by the 1990's the drawer handles were integrated into the sheet metal (no longer a separate thing). Later in 1970's the drawer handles were still blind but were cast with Mac in them, which is what your box has. Early 1970's they went with blind holes meaning just screws from the inside of the drawer. Into the 1960's they were fastened with nuts and bolts. Those mechanic's roll-away boxes can be roughly dated by the drawer handles.
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