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?
Before you spend a ton of a Snap-On, Mac or other take a look at Vidmar and
Stanley/Lista cabinets. IIRC the drawers are rated at something like 440
lb! They're not cheap but if you're not in too big of a hurry you can find
them at auctions or even on the surplus market and they're hard to beat.
One other thing to look at... Harbor Freight is selling one now that has
ball bearing slides on all the drawers and it's often on sale for as little
as $399.99 plus they keep sending me coupons via email good for 20% off on
any one item, including sale prices, which puts it at around $320! If you
have a local store get on their email list and I'm sure you'll get them too.
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=90320
I don't have any direct experience with using one but I've checked them out
in the store and they seem pretty decent. My quickie test for drawer slide
quality is to put quite a bit of down pressure on a drawer by leaning on it
and see how well it slides and theirs was pretty impressive. Not as good as
Lista and Vidmar though...
They've been discussed here before but I don't think we've heard from anyone
that's actually bought one and used it for awhile. Anyone???
Best Regards,
Keith Marshall
"I'm not grown up enough to be so old!"
"B.B." u wrote in message
news
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.
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B.B. --I am not a goat! thegoat4 at airmail dot net