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My little red craftsman tool chest finally got too overloaded. I'd
long ago reinforced the bottom and replaced the casters, and I've been
temporarily fixing the drawers when they'd fall out, but yesterday it
had a total failure. Which was actually pretty funny to watch.
It's a top chest and a bottom roll a round, 26 inches wide.
Anyhoo,
I pushed in the top drawer of the bottom chest and it fell off its
rails and landed on the drawer below it. Sheared the rails of that
drawer off completely, causing the two to hit the third, and so on
until all five of the bottom drawers came crashing down to the bottom.
Then the whole mess slid forward, fell out, and with so much weight
suddenly shifting one way, the remainder of the toolbox (with top
chest) went the other way and slammed into the ground, bending
basically every part of it.
I so wish I had a video of that.
But now I need to invest in a new box. To anyone who's been there
and done that, are the hideously expensive Matco/SnapOn/Mac/Etc boxes
worth the money? I investigated and I can swing the payments, but I
sure don't want to. OTOH, I know first-hand I can annihilate a
Craftsman, though they do offer the more sturdy "Craftsman
Professional" boxes with actual drawer rollers instead of stamped
metal slides.
Know of any other box brands out there?
I guesstimate that little red box was holding about 600 lbs of
stuff
when it died. It's most likely rolling around the halls of Valhalla
right now.


The best box you can have is LISTA or a VIDMAR (Stanley) IMHO. These
are industrial boxes designed to take years of use/abuse and still work
perfectly. EACH drawer will support IIRC 450lbs. Cheap, they are not,
but I bet you can get one for the same money or less than that snap-on
you are looking at. Last one I ordered for the plant, 5' tall, double
width (52"W drawers) with 6" casters was ~$4000. The added benefit being
that you can customize the drawer configurations to suit you.

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Anthony

You can't 'idiot proof' anything....every time you try, they just make
better idiots.

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