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 A few years ago I had an older Ives station that someone had replaced the sheet metal base. The original wall tabs were long gone.

The repair consisted of a new longer replacement "tab" afixed to the station walls with a pin and epoxy.

(very small hole drilled through the station wall , and " new " tab, then epoxy tab onto inside of wall , insert pin and bent)

The slots in the replacement base were cut to fit the "new" tabs. New tabs were inserted and bent over. 

Sadly I sold the station a few years back so no pics to show.

The pin heads were small and barely noticable, the original unknown owner did some nice sheet metal fabrication creating the base too.

If you epoxy new tabs to the side walls, maybe bend them into an L shape.., drill a hole thru the floor and the tab and secure with small  flat head self tap screws.

Best to do what ever you can to keep them out of the scrap pile and on the rails.

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