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Posted: 8/28/2016 7:17:07 PM EST
Home or work I'm specifically wondering how you guys are organizing stuff inside it. I just bought a harbor freight 44"
http://m.harborfreight.com/44-in-13-drawer-glossy-red-industrial-roller-cabinet-68784.html So I'm wanting some setup tips |
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This is all I have, 54 inch Williams. It is much better than the Craftsman I had before. http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/1058603/fullsize/dscf1029.jpg View Quote Williams is good stuff, in fact, now days it is the industrial part of snap on... I have owned a few Willa's socket sets and such..damn good tools |
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All this tells me is that I have far too many tools in far too small a box.
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I wish I had a larger tool box, but alas, all I have is a typical Sears Craftsman basic garage tool box and a 3HP garage air compressor. http://i.pbase.com/g9/72/325172/2/163974509.huFEZzpy.jpg View Quote And what looks like a Kennedy cantilever. |
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Quoted: And what looks like a Kennedy cantilever. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I wish I had a larger tool box, but alas, all I have is a typical Sears Craftsman basic garage tool box and a 3HP garage air compressor. http://i.pbase.com/g9/72/325172/2/163974509.huFEZzpy.jpg And what looks like a Kennedy cantilever. It's a GREAT tool box though! |
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Williams is good stuff, in fact, now days it is the industrial part of snap on... I have owned a few Willa's socket sets and such..damn good tools View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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This is all I have, 54 inch Williams. It is much better than the Craftsman I had before. http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/1058603/fullsize/dscf1029.jpg Williams is good stuff, in fact, now days it is the industrial part of snap on... I have owned a few Willa's socket sets and such..damn good tools I have tried for the last 8 months to get additional drawer slides so that I can put my 3/4 inch impact socket set in there but apparently they don't want to sell me any. I even sent them 2 emails about it. Out of the 300 mechanics at work no one had a Williams. They mostly had Snap On and Craftsman with a few Kennedy's mixed in there. Unfortunately most of the hand tools (non socket and wrench) in the Williams line up are now made in Taiwan. |
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I have tried for the last 8 months to get additional drawer slides so that I can put my 3/4 inch impact socket set in there but apparently they don't want to sell me any. I even sent them 2 emails about it. Out of the 300 mechanics at work no one had a Williams. They mostly had Snap On and Craftsman with a few Kennedy's mixed in there. Unfortunately most of the hand tools (non socket and wrench) in the Williams line up are now made in Taiwan. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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This is all I have, 54 inch Williams. It is much better than the Craftsman I had before. http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/1058603/fullsize/dscf1029.jpg Williams is good stuff, in fact, now days it is the industrial part of snap on... I have owned a few Willa's socket sets and such..damn good tools I have tried for the last 8 months to get additional drawer slides so that I can put my 3/4 inch impact socket set in there but apparently they don't want to sell me any. I even sent them 2 emails about it. Out of the 300 mechanics at work no one had a Williams. They mostly had Snap On and Craftsman with a few Kennedy's mixed in there. Unfortunately most of the hand tools (non socket and wrench) in the Williams line up are now made in Taiwan. Compare them to snap on slides..should be the same now days..maybe I'll slides off one of your drawers and move to the drawer you want to double up on and then do snap on slides on the one you robbed from... Yeah all of my Williams stuff was acquired in the late 70's... |
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When I was still working on cars for a living, I could do most of what I needed to do out of my service cart. I didn't really have to go to my big toolbox unless I need something special. Forgive the quality of the photo, it's about four or five years old. http://i.imgur.com/zoGtfDPl.jpg View Quote Is that a matco cart with the 4 drawer setup? If so that what I have at the house..one of these days I need to clean it out...good cart though and surprised how much it does hold.. |
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Quoted: Is that a matco cart with the 4 drawer setup? If so that what I have at the house..one of these days I need to clean it out...good cart though and surprised how much it does hold.. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: When I was still working on cars for a living, I could do most of what I needed to do out of my service cart. I didn't really have to go to my big toolbox unless I need something special. Forgive the quality of the photo, it's about four or five years old. http://i.imgur.com/zoGtfDPl.jpg Is that a matco cart with the 4 drawer setup? If so that what I have at the house..one of these days I need to clean it out...good cart though and surprised how much it does hold.. No, this one's a Snap-on. I had one of those four drawer Matco carts and I really liked it. I liked most that the lid flipped all the way over and out of the way, unlike the Snap-on where it's hinged externally and has to stay upright. Makes it easier to get a hold of whatever's in the top of the cart from either side. I don't have any good pictures of it though, only a partial from my old setup. |
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I was using a Craftsman three-box stack that wasn't big enough. Bought the HF roller the OP got, now I need more tools. That HF box is a really nice unit for amazingly little money. |
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View Quote Beautiful box. Sucks that Snap-On discontinued that color. |
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I have the bastard setup. 4c piece rollaround Snap-on chest, accompanied by various Kobalt, Craftsman, and HF shit. The Kobalt stuff is pretty nice. Excellent drawer glides, but absolute garbage locking system.
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Beautiful box. Sucks that Snap-On discontinued that color. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
Beautiful box. Sucks that Snap-On discontinued that color. Thank you. The box is a couple years old, but I actually just ordered the side locker 3 months ago. My dealer had a tough time finding the code for the color, but he was able to track it down. Supposedly they're still making a limited run on the color once a quarter. |
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When I was still working on cars for a living, I could do most of what I needed to do out of my service cart. I didn't really have to go to my big toolbox unless I need something special. Forgive the quality of the photo, it's about four or five years old. http://i.imgur.com/zoGtfDPl.jpg View Quote This is how we rolled when I worked at the shop and how the guys still roll when I go by to visit |
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Which one? I have everything from 11 drawer Kennedys to 13 drawer Gerstners clad in pleather, to 44" HF's that hold hundreds of pounds of tools. Every area, every machine, has its own tool boxes, be it tools for car work, basic wrenches, mill or lathe tool holding, to precision measurement boxes. If I cataloged every box in my shop I'd say I have over 20. Then I'd get into the 'what constitutes a tool box?', file cabinets that hold large mill tooling, 'parts boxes' that hold sub-1/4" end mills and lathe bits, the box of basic auto tools behind the seat of my truck. Broad subject. Organization is never complete.
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I have two big stand up rolling boxes. Top section in the left box is metric sockets and wrenches, right box standard sockets and wrenches then both lowers are general tools. air tools in the left box hand tools in the right
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I have a Kennedy roll cab and chest, a Kennedy cantilever, a Kennedy fold top box, a small plastic Craftsman for my welding gear, a rolling Craftsman tub style for my carpentry stuff, and a Herman Miller storage cart (2'x2'x6' tall, slide out shelves and roll top/bottom doors) and a couple other small plastic boxes for bicycle tools and such.
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View Quote Nice S2K dude, has a hardtop too. I sold mine a few years ago but they are great cars, very well built. |
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I have 4 craftsman standard bottom boxes and one craftsman top box ( standard ) . One of my craftsman boxes holds all my Machinist tools and sports a Kennedy top box with machinist tools. I have mostly snap on tools.A small mix of craftsman brand .
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OMG, I had forgotten about that one - I bought that thing when I started my electronic career back in 1974.... It's a GREAT tool box though! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I wish I had a larger tool box, but alas, all I have is a typical Sears Craftsman basic garage tool box and a 3HP garage air compressor. http://i.pbase.com/g9/72/325172/2/163974509.huFEZzpy.jpg And what looks like a Kennedy cantilever. Those old school Kennedys are serious $$$ now. The Homak Kennedys are junk. |
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Quoted: One of the boxes at home and a roll around in the corner. Have an identical blue Macsimizer bottom at work. Big green rig was a CL find from a retired tech. Had to send a wrecker 100 miles to Houston to get it for me. $3500.00 was a bargain even if is was 11 years old. Probably $18,000.00 off the truck new today. http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt171/duc-man97/IMG_20160118_201721_585_zpshm9oyuwf.jpg Took it completely apart and cleaned it inside and out before putting it in the shop. Cleaned up pretty nice and had the 2 inch maple top planed and refinished to remove all the stains and beat marks. http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt171/duc-man97/ResizedImage_1380507293385_zps5bab03d1.jpg View Quote The Macsimizer boxes are nice. I gladly traded in my $8k+ garbage snap-on box for a nice Macsimizer. I think they feel more solid, have nicer drawers and slides and roll better. |
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Can't take a picture of the toolbox, my name is on it. But, I found these bullshit sockets. I say they're bullshit cause the 1/2 socket is wayyyy bigger than a 1/2 in and they're stamped BS. I think I got ripped off. Hell the 1/2 is bigger than the scope tube. https://s10.postimg.org/4oygdnri1/20160829_042910_Copy.jpg https://s17.postimg.org/5wwp5m6an/20160829_042926_Copy.jpg View Quote Um, that BS is British Standard...................their 1/2 is like our 1", give or take a few feet..........but then they used to run positive earth......... |
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Um, that BS is British Standard...................their 1/2 is like our 1", give or take a few feet..........but then they used to run positive earth......... View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Can't take a picture of the toolbox, my name is on it. But, I found these bullshit sockets. I say they're bullshit cause the 1/2 socket is wayyyy bigger than a 1/2 in and they're stamped BS. I think I got ripped off. Hell the 1/2 is bigger than the scope tube. https://s10.postimg.org/4oygdnri1/20160829_042910_Copy.jpg https://s17.postimg.org/5wwp5m6an/20160829_042926_Copy.jpg Um, that BS is British Standard...................their 1/2 is like our 1", give or take a few feet..........but then they used to run positive earth......... They also drive on the wrong side of the road |
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Can't take a picture of the toolbox, my name is on it. But, I found these bullshit sockets. I say they're bullshit cause the 1/2 socket is wayyyy bigger than a 1/2 in and they're stamped BS. I think I got ripped off. Hell the 1/2 is bigger than the scope tube. https://s10.postimg.org/4oygdnri1/20160829_042910_Copy.jpg https://s17.postimg.org/5wwp5m6an/20160829_042926_Copy.jpg View Quote I learned early on in bike shops that there were BS standard and Whitworth standard tools along with a few other even more obscure relics......and that metric stuff rules the known universe. |
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I hate you fuckers that have well organized toolboxes.
Mine looks like a transformer threw up in ever drawer. |
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View Quote That's beautiful man. I was just thinking on the way to work today, I really should build another CRX to replace the one I sold 13 years ago to fund the purchase of my 70 Chevelle. Barbados yellow with Prizmatique rainbow metallic, stout B16, nice stereo, ended up with 14" Miata BBS's on it, looked great. Here's a pic, because yellow Honda! |
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