Good golly miss Molly, took me darn near a week to browse through the photos and commentary! LOVE IT!
Obviously anything new is a Gen 2, recently got my 2nd black 5 drawer.
It's funny reading back several years ago, seeing people paint the colors now available, and making a home brew shelf, adapting the lid to go 90°.
Crazy how times have changed. Heck, even to do some of the MODS that used lumber, oooof, that would cost you today......
So, I've got to say many thanks to you all for sharing such wonderful, amazing, incredible, and well thought out adaptations to your carts, it sure is going to make life simpler for those of us that are late to the party.
I'm not a body guy, and don't pretend to play one on TV either, so I'm only looking to move the larger ½ shelves to the bottom of the stack, and do some riveting.
I have however, dropped the support bracket to the bottom bolt, cutting a small ~1" cross section of the bottom tray, and somewhere around an inch off the top of the bottom box. In that roughly 5" wasted space, looking to adapt a PC power supply for on hand 12vdc, have a ciggy socket or 2, and who knows what else available, as I do plan to power the cart. I considered an old SLA, but I've been trained to charge them upright, and think I'd rather be in the 18Ah range, which won't stand up, at least not out of the way and out of sight. I searched for a nice small retractable cord reel to stuff in there, but any that I've found to be reliable are too large, or new product ones seem to have poor reviews, unless they are out of the budget. So cord wrapped around the handle it shall be, with a quality strain relief mounted somewhere.
I've been also searching for a good means of attaching a few lights, but individual drawer lights are apparently out of the question, so probably going to go with a few strategically placed Oznium Bolt Lights across the top and middle panel, and a non contact (wave your hand) switch, hopefully powered by the cord and an option for connection to a Ryobi One+ 18v, for the occasional odd job not near an outlet.
The appliance touch up, thats genius!
Edge Guard, oh man thats great.
2x2 angle for driver/prybar stands, so clever.
One hole D-Rings, not that I'll be needing to strap'er down, but those are handy for all occasions.
It's going to be a lengthy build, I'm slow, infrequent time allotments, ordering things, and the inevitable double triple quadruple test fits....
But I've gotten started with some cuts, and everybody is taken apart, so I am committed.
Again, thank you to everyone for your shared inspiration!
I'll be sure to return with some final product pics.
