Tool Box Fun

[Matt400]

A tool box is kinda like your special "spot" heres mine:

Brandon will tell you it doesn’t look so organized during the day though.

Its a MAC Lower box with a custom made metal top for more space. Channel iron goes up the back side and mounts the peg board and upper cabinet along with an overhead lamp.

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The PC on the left has Internet access so I can surf some not so work related stuff (like TDR) when the wife isn’t looking :-laf



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[rbattelle]

Here's my lowly tool chest. Bought it 2 years ago on sale at the local tool crib. I have already outgrown it. It's a Clarke HD (made in China) with ball-bearings. A pretty nice chest, I think. But I need something much bigger. Of course, I also need a bigger garage.



I like the idea of the computer atop the bench... maybe I need to augment my bench a bit. Or even better, get rid of my existing bench and buy a new giant rolling chest that I can put a bench on top just like Matt... hmmmmm... .



-Ryan

 

[Matt400]

My last box was a MAC sized like yours Ryan but with no rollers. . gotta love that feature. I think most all boxes have them now.



A nice mod to what you have already is to get another bottom box and bolt them together, then make a bench top over them both! My bench top is two pieces of 3/4" plywood and I had a sheet metal shop bend me the top so I had a back piece and the front edge is rolled around the plywood. I pulled the top drawer out and bolted it down using carriage bolts.

 

[rbattelle]

A nice mod to what you have already is to get another bottom box and bolt them together, then make a bench top over them both!

A great idea, however it doesn't address the main issue: I want a new toolbox. :-laf



Anyone ever heard of "Remline"? This box is <$1000 at Northern...



-Ryan

 

[Matt400]

I have heard of those but never seen one-

Full extension, ball bearing drawer slides on all drawers

and at 1000 bucks sounds pretty darn good.

 

[rbattelle]

I have heard of those but never seen one- and at 1000 bucks sounds pretty darn good.

Not to mention every drawer is 21" deep. Seems like an amazing deal. $115 truck ship from Northern.



-Ryan

 

[barbwire]

Ryan, I have seen a few Remline boxes. The ones I saw were very nice and seemed to be of good quality. However, like a lot of companies, they may make two lines, KWIM. one line may be the better quality than the other. Guess I dont know.

 

[WDixon27]

heres my beast of expensiveness

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that stainless steel box at sams wholesale club looks like a good deal at six hundred something

 

[Matt400]

heres my beast of expensiveness

Thats a nice one! I have that same Branick spring compressor and use those little squirrel cage fans to keep cool too.

 

[RT66DOC]

Anybody use this stuff?

http://www.listaintl.com/perspace/pstuefel.htm

 

[Jff24Gordn]

Ive got one of the CPS stainless boxes from sams. the body seems pretty tough. If you pack a drawer real heavy, you can bend the stop by slamming it too hard. My hammer drawer has had this happen. Whats a good redneck w/o a bunch of hammers? The locks are kind of cheep too. The boxes are not keyed the same. Mine were close and the top box key got put in the bottom one and it turned part ways and stopped, by the time I got the key out, the tumblers inside were broke and I had to take the lock out with it locked and the drawers shut. CPS stood behind their warentee and sent me a new lock to fix it, and they sent me one to match the good lock so I only need 1 key now.

I would rather have a snapon box, but at $650 ot $6500, whitch one did I get for christmass? And if snapon made a stainless box, I dont think my 8" thick shop floor would take it w/o cracking.

 

[WDixon27]

hmmm lets see, $2200 for the main cab new but old stock, $1100 for the locker new on sale and $270 for the side cab slightly used he wanted $400 but i traded a old pump . 22 that i had $70 in for half off, or retail $3200, $1500 and $900

I would rather have a snapon box, but at $650 ot $6500,

 

[cap-n-cray]

I got the the same CPS Stainless Steel set up but from Costco. Different name but they look the same. Nice boxes for $650.



Tom, The Lista boxes are quality boxes. The government contractor that rebuilds the E2 and C2 (Hawkeye and Grayhound) aircraft is converting all of their boxes to Lista. I bet they are expensive, but the government has OPM. I have been doing a lot of work for them and they pay real good.



Cary

 

[RT66DOC]

Cary,



IIRC, the Lista boxes are not horribly expensive in the grand scheme of things. I'll do a little online comparison shopping and see what I come up with. Blue is my favorite color.



Poway? Been there - nice.

 

[gitchesum]

I got one of the stainless steel boxes too.



I got a pic of it before the incident, I'll have to let MDW post the after pic.

 

[Bill Lins]

Uhhhh, WHAT "incident"?

 

[nickleinonen]

here is a link to the abbombination of a tool box i have at work. it started out as just the lower 4 drawer gray box, then i they were throwing out an older gray tool box which i grabbed, sawzalled off the bottom junk hole, plopped it on top of mine then welded it on. the small hand box on top is full of more junk [gloves, paper sleves, date book, payslips, notebook, calculator... ]



drawer#

top 1- clipboard, shop radio and mic, tinsnips, caulking gun, hacksaw, multitool, pens, markers, lead wire seals

top 2- screwdrivers, prybars, allenkeys, small hammer, magnet & mirror

top 3- 1/2" air ratchet, 1/2" impact gun, 3/4" impact gun, 4" air grinder, air gasket sander/grinder, air tool oil, 1 liter tub graphite grease, can of lubriplate white grease, leak detector, oil sampling valve, various filter wrenches and strap wrenches 1/2" torque wrench.

lower 1- 1/2" sockets deep & shallow chrome, 1/2" deep & shallow impact, 3/8" misc sockets, 1/4" misc sockets. ratchets for all 3, 1/4" - 1-1/4" combo wrenches.

lower 2- chisles, punches, adjustable wrenches, channel locks, vicegrips, more allen keys, box end wrenches, 1/2" drive extensions [4x 6", 3x 10", 1x 18"] extra ratchets & repair parts.

lower 3- pipe wrenches, 3/4" drive sockets, large ring wrenches, large combo wrenches [1-5/16" & 1-1/2"] large hammer, small sledge, files, die grinder carbides, drill bits, tub of various self tapping screws/self drilling screws

lower 4- tubes of silicone [dow corning 732 & 832], hylomar & ultracopper. cans of ether, leather gloves, fall arrest harness, 4-5 6' endless slings, 20a to 15a plug adapters, cheater pipe, extra 1/2" drive sockets, pipe dope, copper antiseize, lapping compound, cutting oil.

welding mask hanging in plastic bucket under raincoat. .



dang it, going through these drawers, i just realized that i forgot to pickup my tin snips from on top of the box i cut the straps off of. they will be gone by the time i get back to work tonight oh well, time to reorder a new pair...

 

[JoshPeters]

Here's my box. I had planned on Some day building it up in stages to be this big... . but Matco decided to discontinue my color. :-{} SO... . it was crap or get off the pot! Now that I did it, I'm glad I did. Plenty of room... . but that's changing every week it seems... .



Josh

 

[Matt400]

Cool! looks like Mopar Plume Crazy, well sorta depending on the light. maybe this fella's car is just purple.

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[Nate]

My toolboxes. I'm not going to write down everything, it'd take me all day. I started adding up receipts the other day on what I've bought... I stopped after I hit $10,000 :--)



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