44" tool boxes, Harbor freight vs home depot waterloo vs home depot stanly

[paranoid56]

needed another box so picked up a HF one today.
in my garage i have a old home depot waterloo and a old home depot stanly box.
will let the pics show the info.
Waterloo
and yes, i have painted these a wile ago

nice dual glides on the thick drawers.

thickness of metal drawers.

Stanly

only single glides and cheaper ones at that.

thickness of metal drawers.

Harbor Freight
just the first primer coat, final coat will be done tomorrow.

dual glides on the thick drawers. very very similar glides to the waterloo

thickness of metal drawers.

 

[zkling]

Are there any maker marks on the slides for the HF box?

 

[paranoid56]

none that i saw, only one that had labels was the waterloo box. but i would bet that the waterloo would fit the HF one, as the way they mount are the same way too

 

[paranoid56]

edited the pic, i think i had the wrong thickness pic loaded, all fixed now

 

[ibedayank]

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=153445

 

[paranoid56]

thanks, is kept searching for that damn thread, as i knew it existed but couldn't find it. will add this to that.

 

[paranoid56]

they were all labeled husky. however, that waterloo one is probably 5 or so years old. the other one (stanly) is made around 2 years ago. and the stanly one is much more flimsy than the HF one fyi.

 

[cburnscrx]

I see you've removed the badges.

Was the "HD Waterloo" branded "Husky" or "Waterloo"?

I was recently looking at some of the Husky branded boxes and they were flimsier than my HF box. They definitely did not have thicker metal, like your measurements show on your Waterloo.

The other thing worth noting...from what I can tell (and I've been in the store researching) ONLY the 26" boxes are made by Waterloo, and not even all of them. From another thread we've figured out there are 3 versions of the same box. 2 versions made by Waterloo and one import.

The 52" workbench is not made by Waterloo and the 40" combo isn't either. The manuals are different, the phone number is not Waterloo (like other Husky and Craftsman).

I am not judging any of them, I am just pointing out the information I have been able to find out.

 

[cburnscrx]

needed another box so picked up a HF one today.
in my garage i have a old home depot waterloo and a old home depot stanly box.
will let the pics show the info.

Now you are going to paint the side of the drawers, right?

 

[paranoid56]

The other thing worth noting...from what I can tell (and I've been in the store researching) ONLY the 26" boxes are made by Waterloo, and not even all of them. From another thread we've figured out there are 3 versions of the same box. 2 versions made by Waterloo and one import.

The 52" workbench is not made by Waterloo and the 40" combo isn't either. The manuals are different, the phone number is not Waterloo (like other Husky and Craftsman).

I am not judging any of them, I am just pointing out the information I have been able to find out.

correct, the waterloo HD box i have has the waterloo 1800 number and part numbers (I have talked to them as i had a glide go bad and they send me a new one)

Now you are going to paint the side of the drawers, right?

no. i am not that ocd. with all drawers closed it looks fine. i do not have the patience to strip it all and paint. i barely had enough to paint this one, as i need to get it installed under my cnc router so i can put **** away

 

[cburnscrx]

no. i am not that ocd. with all drawers closed it looks fine. i do not have the patience to strip it all and paint. i barely had enough to paint this one, as i need to get it installed under my cnc router so i can put **** away

Yes, but I am that ocd...paint the sides. Haha

 

[paranoid56]

you are lucky i even masked the key lock
and look at the old ones, no painted sides and one of the boxes was black and one was red

 

[Mike007]

I'd have to paint the entire drawer too. I guess I have OCD too.

 

[cburnscrx]

I'd have to paint the entire drawer too. I guess I have OCD too.

I have OCD when it comes to stuff like this. I'd have to strip it down to bare box and drawers, paint it so no red (or black) showed anywhere, then reassemble after it was painted. It'd look like factory.

Eventually (like 2+ years from now), I plan on painting all my boxes grey with red drawers. Think old school Craftsman. I love that retro look. Either that or I am going all black. I am not a red fan in general.

 

[jakemac]

Ever since one of the members here pointed out that CDO was OCD in alphabetical order, I've been obsessed with people not arranging the letters correctly.