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Hal wrote:Wonkothesane wrote:Anyone have any input on this craftsman toolbox? Sears Link
It doesn't look like the bottom of the line, and it's going to be on a pretty good sale come friday. I'm probably going to stop by a store and check it out before hand..
I have had a similar or the same box set(don't have item numbers) for 5 years. They work just fine for my home garage. I have had no probems even with some of the drawers pretty heavily loaded.
Same here. A good box.
Joey
Wonkothesane wrote:Anyone have any input on this craftsman toolbox? Sears Link
It doesn't look like the bottom of the line, and it's going to be on a pretty good sale come friday. I'm probably going to stop by a store and check it out before hand..
thank god it isnt the one with standard slide drawers. I have one of those and am quickly growing to hate it already, and it's only been in the shop for two weeks
yeah i use a craftsman 26" with 'quite glide' drawer slides. i've had it for over 10 years, and i guess im used to it now. but i REALLY wish i had ball bearing slides. im out growing my box combo now, and looking for 40" USA made.
i've heard good things about the stainless steel unit at sams club. but china made im sure
A big factor in the durability of a tool chest is whether or not it gets moved around a lot. If left in one place all the time, a cheaper box can last a long time. But if you roll it around from job to job, the situation is different. Of course, the condition of the floor has a lot to do with it, but even on a smooth surface, rolling around a heavily loaded box takes its toll.
I used the basic Craftsman 26" bottom + top boxes for years. When I got a used set of bigger ball bearing Craftsman boxes, the old ones moved into the machine shop. When I finally got the 40" ball bearing roll cab, intermediate chest, top and side boxes, and declared the tool storage battle won, I moved the old BB stuff into the machine shop and the oldest friction slide stuff into the hobby room.
I've got a lot of tools, and the only tool storage I can see going to would be a good used Lista or Vidmar cabinet for the machine shop for tooling. There's already 2 Kennedy journeyman boxes of machinist tools, and 2 Kennedy tray boxes of bicycle frame prep tools.
If it's your first boxes, 26" red Craftsman is a right of passage. Get 'em, grow your tool collection, and get bigger boxes when the little ones are so full it pisses you off.
I love my 2003, MAC 40 inch box, even though it fairly new compared to some of the others that have been listed. It might not help that most of the car I wrench on are 1/10 scale,(they coast less to repair when some one hits it while it is on the track. Back on topic, the drawers still open and shut just as smooth as the day i bought it.
My first5 box was a cheapo black metal box full of chrome vanadium tools and old tools my dad had, also had a couple of those plastic cases with socket sets. That was in the early 80's, lol. Those old boxes were tough and stronger than tyodays boxes. I still have a bigger carry type box made of a polymer type stuff I think came from Sams Club years ago. Its tougher than some metal ones. I now have a very old Snap-On roll around bottom chest and another top chest from Snap-On from the late 80's. Still works great. Have the plastic box for carrying tools to remote places or to where I need to work on stuff that cant make it to my place.
