taiwan's best revisited

[jniolon]

Well my new Proto combo came in last week and after dragging everything out of the garage to make room for it...


I love it.. glad I didn't buy the Costco model and found this deal on the Proto set... Now... transfer everything out of the 4 high Crapsman to the Proto and fill the Crapsman with all the stuff I want to put away but not visit very often... I hate pulling all those labels off !!!

 

[Chris Adams]

Great looking box.
With the discount how much did it set you back, if you don't mind my asking.
I would buy something like that, but I don't get a discount...

 

[eschoendorff]

Cool box - cooler shop!

 

[ImportTuner]

Well my new Proto combo came in last week and after dragging everything out of the garage to make room for it...


I love it.. glad I didn't buy the Costco model and found this deal on the Proto set... Now... transfer everything out of the 4 high Crapsman to the Proto and fill the Crapsman with all the stuff I want to put away but not visit very often... I hate pulling all those labels off !!!

Where did you get the Binford sticker? ...

 

[jniolon]

Where did you get the Binford sticker? ...

I wondered if anyone would notice it.... picked it up at the F-100 Supernationals in Pigeon Forge several years ago... I love it... arghhhhh argh...arghhhhh (insert Tim Taylor Grunt)

boxes cost me about 950.00 not counting the gas to drive 100 miles round trip to get them them suckers is heavy too... took me and a chain hoist and my wife to set the top box on the cabinet... I raised the box and she rolled the cabinet under it

john

 

[Elroy]

Where did you get the Binford sticker? ...

Excellent question. Elroy would like one of those!

 

[Tom R]

What Model #s and width? What discount % and where did you get it...looks really nice...Tom R

 

[jniolon]

Excellent question. Elroy would like one of those!

then Elroy might should go to this place

http://www.hilltopgraphics.net/shop/shopexd.asp?id=408

 

[jniolon]

What Model #s and width? What discount % and where did you get it...looks really nice...Tom R

aw heck Tom.... I just threw those numbers out today... 41" width. they are in the 44000 series ... on the stanley-proto site they are J444142-15R cabinet and j444119-12R top box ... they are around 1800.00 on the MSC site if you click 'buy them now'

you can find them on the stanley-proto site under tool storage.

discount % is proprietary since I'm retired from a company that does business with the supplier they give me the company price . Bought it from a local tool supplier here in Alabama that has our company's contract for tools and industrial stuff...

john

 

[Elroy]

Excellent, Thank you

 

[Tom R]

Thanks John...I understand...I had employee pricing on Proto when I worked for Stanley back in the '90s...I will look up the info...Tom R

 

[ImportTuner]

then Elroy might should go to this place

http://www.hilltopgraphics.net/shop/shopexd.asp?id=408

Thanks .... I'm getting one ...

 

[Uncle Buck]

Well my new Proto combo came in last week and after dragging everything out of the garage to make room for it...


I love it.. glad I didn't buy the Costco model and found this deal on the Proto set... Now... transfer everything out of the 4 high Crapsman to the Proto and fill the Crapsman with all the stuff I want to put away but not visit very often... I hate pulling all those labels off !!!

Your shop looks similar to mine, very crowded but well organized and everything within arms reach due to space limitations! I love the Proto combo, very well done!

 

[Kevin54]

Nice box!!! But I have never seen so many Craftsmans stacked on top of each other. If that was mine, I'd be rolling it, hit a pebble on the floor and it would all come tumbling down.

 

[jniolon]

Kevin,

height was my problem too... had to stand on a stool to see in the top box. Maybe going a little more horizontal will help. the c'man set never rolls except for cleaning around it or major renovations like a new proto set movin in. I've got a bucketboss that I fill to overflowing then try to carry it to the job at hand. You CAN out more in a 5 gallon bucket than you can carry !!!. I had to empty half the shop to get the new boxes where I wanted them.

Now getting it loaded up !

hholmberg... when you're limited to 24x24 and want to keep everything you ever touched you have to have some organization... There is a complete '53 ford f-100 in there in pieces... hopefully the rebuild will begin again soon...

later
john

 

[Uncle Buck]

Nice box!!! But I have never seen so many Craftsmans stacked on top of each other. If that was mine, I'd be rolling it, hit a pebble on the floor and it would all come tumbling down.

I never personally stacked my stuff that high, but I can say that when you do the first rule is you never roll the ****** thing around!

 

[Uncle Buck]

Kevin,

hholmberg... when you're limited to 24x24 and want to keep everything you ever touched you have to have some organization... There is a complete '53 ford f-100 in there in pieces... hopefully the rebuild will begin again soon...

later
john

Yup, I know exactly where you are coming from. Mine is the same footprint and it teaches the pack rat (me) to think vertically!

 

[Chris Adams]

I never personally stacked my stuff that high, but I can say that when you do the first rule is you never roll the ****** thing around!

I've had them stacked to the 77 inch line but presently I just have two stacked to 73 inches. The other five are 72-60 inches.

Moving them is not a problem.

You use good safety wire and hook from the flip top on the box down to the rim on the bottom cabinet.

Two turn buckles for adjustment and to make it easy to take down. You position the boxes forward, rather than backward so the guy wire goes down the back.
The guy wires also keep you from tipping a box by opening the drawers, keeps you from piling junk on the little ledge between a 16 inch box and an 18 inch cabinet, and makes the drawers easier to access.
Oh yeah, it keeps them upright in earthquakes up to at least a 6.3 (highest mine have had to endure)

The boxes get moved whenever I want, never any jiggle or bounce.
Of course I take it slow and easy...

 

[wilbilt]

I've had them stacked to the 77 inch line but presently I just have two stacked to 73 inches. The other five are 72-60 inches.

Two turn buckles for adjustment and to make it easy to take down. You position the boxes forward, rather than backward so the guy wire goes down the back.
The guy wires also keep you from tipping a box by opening the drawers, keeps you from piling junk on the little ledge between a 16 inch box and an 18 inch cabinet, and makes the drawers easier to access.
Oh yeah, it keeps them upright in earthquakes up to at least a 6.3 (highest mine have had to endure)

...And there is the voice of experience...

BTW "Pack Rat Syndrome" is not a sickness. It is a genetic feature that is missing in the majority of the population.

If they only knew...