Jim Johnstone
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Hi guys, I figured I would start a thread about the SPG pro series toolboxes, since I couldn't find much info when I bought mine.
I purchased the 42" wide 14 drawer roller cabinet from home depot online, about 2 years ago now. I ordered it from home depot so I could put it on my home depot credit card and get 18 month terms with no payments or interest. It works out nicely for me, as I could just divide the payments into weekly payments, since at the time I was only 2 years into my apprenticeship and wasn't making a lot of money yet.
This is the box I purchased. I just stole the image off the Internet, since I forgot to snap a pic of mine before I left work today.
So home depot does not stock this box, but only make it available online and it drop ships directly from SPG International. The box arrived 2 days after I placed my order, but the crate arrived damaged in transit, and the top left corner of the box was bent over. I made a quick call to home depot and they arranged for another box to be sent from SPG and the courier took the old box back with them.
Initial impressions were very good. It comes with roller bearing casters, roller slides on all drawers, double roller slides on 2 of the deep drawers. It has a lift latch style handle that holds the drawers shut when moving the box around and are quite easy to activate when you want in the drawers.
Overall the box is solid and stable when wheeling it around. I've never had any concerns with tipping or being shaky/wobbly at all. It's certainly not as heavy gage steel as the likes of a snap on or mac etc, but it's quite nice for the money. They do produce a level up from this pro series box, known as the super heavy duty, which I imagine is heavier gage steel.
My only complaints as far as quality are the following. The box came with a set of fitted liners, which was nice, but they are very thin, soft material that moves around way too much when you open and close the drawers. I will be switching those out to something better. The other issue I wasn't totally blown away with was the ends of the drawer handles. The handles are extruded aluminum and quite sharp. So SPG includes a baggie of molded plastic end caps to push onto the handles. They must have had issues with people losing the caps because they sent way more than needed. They do occasionally pop off. I may end up epoxying them on at some point.
Aside from those 2 small complaints, I have been very pleased with the box overall. It's been sturdy and stables and looking like new....until my boss backed into it with a fork truck.
He managed to dent in 4 of the aluminum handle/latches, 1 full length drawer and 3 of the 11.5" drawers. The dent crimped in on the latch and I had to bend the handles out to be able to open the drawers. My boss felt quite sheepish and of course offered to pay to replace the handles. I sent an email to the customer service link on their website, amd received a reply the next day. They just wanted to confirm exactly which drawers needed new handles and asked for my address, and 2 days later I received new drawer handles/latches and even the rivets to replace them, all free of charge.
All in all I have been very pleased with my purchase and would recommend them to others looking for a mid range toolbox.
I purchased the 42" wide 14 drawer roller cabinet from home depot online, about 2 years ago now. I ordered it from home depot so I could put it on my home depot credit card and get 18 month terms with no payments or interest. It works out nicely for me, as I could just divide the payments into weekly payments, since at the time I was only 2 years into my apprenticeship and wasn't making a lot of money yet.
This is the box I purchased. I just stole the image off the Internet, since I forgot to snap a pic of mine before I left work today.
So home depot does not stock this box, but only make it available online and it drop ships directly from SPG International. The box arrived 2 days after I placed my order, but the crate arrived damaged in transit, and the top left corner of the box was bent over. I made a quick call to home depot and they arranged for another box to be sent from SPG and the courier took the old box back with them.
Initial impressions were very good. It comes with roller bearing casters, roller slides on all drawers, double roller slides on 2 of the deep drawers. It has a lift latch style handle that holds the drawers shut when moving the box around and are quite easy to activate when you want in the drawers.
Overall the box is solid and stable when wheeling it around. I've never had any concerns with tipping or being shaky/wobbly at all. It's certainly not as heavy gage steel as the likes of a snap on or mac etc, but it's quite nice for the money. They do produce a level up from this pro series box, known as the super heavy duty, which I imagine is heavier gage steel.
My only complaints as far as quality are the following. The box came with a set of fitted liners, which was nice, but they are very thin, soft material that moves around way too much when you open and close the drawers. I will be switching those out to something better. The other issue I wasn't totally blown away with was the ends of the drawer handles. The handles are extruded aluminum and quite sharp. So SPG includes a baggie of molded plastic end caps to push onto the handles. They must have had issues with people losing the caps because they sent way more than needed. They do occasionally pop off. I may end up epoxying them on at some point.
Aside from those 2 small complaints, I have been very pleased with the box overall. It's been sturdy and stables and looking like new....until my boss backed into it with a fork truck.
He managed to dent in 4 of the aluminum handle/latches, 1 full length drawer and 3 of the 11.5" drawers. The dent crimped in on the latch and I had to bend the handles out to be able to open the drawers. My boss felt quite sheepish and of course offered to pay to replace the handles. I sent an email to the customer service link on their website, amd received a reply the next day. They just wanted to confirm exactly which drawers needed new handles and asked for my address, and 2 days later I received new drawer handles/latches and even the rivets to replace them, all free of charge.
All in all I have been very pleased with my purchase and would recommend them to others looking for a mid range toolbox.
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