Couple of Bad pics of the HF box I use at work.

[chris142]

Here is my mess Top box is a Craftsman box that I bought new about 1990. Friction slides...........I hate it. The Black center box is a Craftsman that was a display and was 50% off so I nabbed it.

The botton and side box are the older HF boxes with the rough finish. Gawd they are hard to keep clean! I pretty much gave up any hope on keeping dirt out of the rough surface.

But I bought the bottom when my Craftsman box died a horrible death. I had even more sockets than I have now in the bottom drawer of my Craftsman box. One day I opened it and the whole drawer came crashing down. The HF box was an emergency buy that day on my lunch hr.

I've had it about 5 years now, use it 5 days a week, roll it from car to car as needed. No problems at all with it. Every drawer on all 4 boxes is packed to the top with tools such as sockets , wrenches, Impacts, TQ wrenches, brake tools etc.

I've never weighed it but it takes a lot of energy to get it rolling.

Here is my socket drawer.

 

[monster1]

I have the newer gloss red box which replaced an older cman top and bottom that I outgrew. Those frictin slides were awful.

 

[bcradio]

Awesome.... Glad to see it's holding up for you

 

[philw]

I mentioned in a thread the other day that I wondered how well a hf or import box would hold up to pro work. I didn't think they would be able to stay together but yours seems to prove me wrong.
Looks like $389 for a hf cab and At least around 2k for a snap that is about the same size but harbor freight only has 90 day warranty? ( did I read that correctly from their site?). Snap on has lifetime on manuf defects but does any know if they cover wear?

Thanks for the info. It should be very helpful to those who are in the market for a box.

 

[Skin]

people seem to fail to grasp that its a tool box, not rocket science. The truck brands make nicer tool boxes but that doesnt mean you cant make do with a "home owner" brand.

 

[chris142]

I mentioned in a thread the other day that I wondered how well a hf or import box would hold up to pro work. I didn't think they would be able to stay together but yours seems to prove me wrong.

It saved my **** at the time and if it failed tomorrow it would not own me anything.

I am kinda looking for a better and larger box. One thats easy to clean with deeper but shallow drawers.

Anyway. The sockets on the end closest to us .......You can see nine 12pt Matco 1/2 drive 12pt metric impact sockets. The blue rack are Cornwell 3/8 metric impact sockets, various 4x4 front wheel bearing lock nut sockets.

On the far end are my SAE sockets. The row on the right is a set of SO 6pt 1/2 impact sockets 3/8-1inch. To the right of those are Torx, torx plus, sae and metric allen bits.

To the left are a set of USA made Craftsman 3/8 deep SAE impacts laying down. Under those are my Big Rig BUDD wheel sockets 3/4 drive. Too many other sizes to mention.

If you look closely on the right you can see a 36 inch SO 1/4 extension that pretty much runs the Length of the drawer. It's about useless as an extension but it's great at retrieving dropped tools from the ground under the center of a car!

Gotta have the plastic HF goto ratchet too.

My wrenches are mostly Matco with a few SO,Mac, Cornwell, Blackhawk etc thrown in.

Impacts are IR or rebranded IR. The bottom drawer is full in IR231's, a 261, air ratchets ........Stuff like that.

So for the most part my tools are good stuff, just my box is cheap