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Looks like a nice box that will work well for your needs. I compare a snapon box to a pickup with leather seats, you don't need either and a cheaper truck will do the same job though they are nice to have. I have a snapon box at work, did I NEED it? Nope. Is it nice to have? Yeah, I figure I...

I worked out of a 3/4 ton dodge van for a while fixing compressors and doing industrial maintenance. The van had prebuilt steel shelves with a couple durham style bins for things like hardware and pipe fittings. One of the nice things was the durham bins were mounted on the rear shelves near...

That's not a very desirable cart here being only 32" wide, $1,200 USD would be a very hard sell though our market is very different than yours. The 40" slide top KRSC4340 is probably the most popular cart sold here, it's a very common 1st box sold to new mechanics. $1,200 would be an ok price...

It doesn't hurt to track him down. This is their business model in the USA and I wouldn't be surprised if it's world wide. The majority of their sales in the US are from trucks and not from the internet. I would imagine a very high percentage of boxes are sold off the truck with some sort of...

WD 40 flush midway through the job? My ratcheting wrenches get covered in slurry and rock dust, a quick flush with WD frees them up. I don't think what you are looking for exists though I would be interested if you do find a solution.

Do the snapon trucks in Australia make deals on in stock tool storage? In the USA snapon makes a run of several hundred of the same boxes, every dealer can order one for their truck with a rebate, the rebate is passed on to the customer. There's also a rebate for financing, you can finance a...

Tekton is my go to. Free shipping to Alaska, e-mail a picture of a broken tool and one ships to the mine while I'm on my days off not worrying about dealing with warranty. We have a great snapon rep down here so warranty is pretty easy. There's pretty decent deals on snapon on e-bay. Harbor...

I work on processing equipment at a mine, used snapon would be my vote. A little more than your budget though well worth it. You can find them on sale on occasion on the truck if you have one you see often. I have 4 flex head Dual 80's that are my go to ratchet depending on the job. A long 1/4"...

If you have a rep you see often I'd try to warranty them. I exchange air hammer bits all the time, it never crossed my mind the burrs wouldn't be.

The GP 3/4 drive standard impact set to 2 1/2" says team lift on the blow molded case, it's heavy. I Threw the case away and put my sockets on rails, the rails don't leave the box. I work on processing equipment at a mine. I typically don't drag out the 3/4 drive stuff till I need a 1 5/8" or...

I have the std ratcheting wrench roll to 1" with gearwrenches, I don't think the 1" or 15/16" fit, metric angle wrenches to 19mm with some parts store brand I think GM performance parts and all the wrencehes fit, metric angle wrenches to 19mm with snapon angle wrenches all fit fine.

That's a perfect size assortment for most DIY stuff. Adding a 1 1/8, 27, 30, and maybe 1 1/4 and 32mm will get you 99% of automotive and boat stuff.

Tekton is a nice budget option. I really like my SAE William's supercombo full polished wrenches at work. I also have the William's Twain metric satin metric wrenches at work which are decent and no skip from 6-24mm. How big do you want to go? There reaches a point when it's just not worth the...

They've come out with a new style hard handle, it looks like a comfort grip though hard, I couldn't find any good videos on it besides 1 from Koon Trucking. I have a pile of the current screw driver style hard handles, 3 of which are my every day go to. I like them a lot better than the comfort...

I started carrying 1/4" semi deeps at work in my tool bag. Originally I bought a set of gearwrench till I used them as pusher bolt extensions and killed them, I've got some e-bay snapons on order. I also have some 3/8" shallows on the rail, 1 rail works for 99% of the things I'm doing out of my...

With the smaller stuff like 1/4 and 3/8" drive and wrenches to 1"/ 25mm it's not a big deal, they are small and cheaper. When you start getting into larger no skips sets it starts getting really expensive and taking up tool box space. I bought a 25-32mm wrench set, I use the 27, 30, and 32 all...

These are real popular with mechanics in the mining industry. We call them benita clips. It looks like you can get them off amazon, we buy them by the pallet load at work. https://www.amazon.com/Ceiling-Hangers-Securing-Polyethylene-Install/dp/B0D8122278?tag=atomicindus08-20 I've even just used...

I was just going to mention the Tekton handle tool I looked on their website and noticed the hard handle is discontinued and the comfort grip doesn't have the square for a ratchet. It works well. I have an older Mac at work I use a fair amount as well with a flex head long 1/4" ratchet it's...

If your trade school provides tools see which ratchets you use most often. I'd wait to buy high dollar ratchets and buy cheaper ratchets till you figure out what you like once you start turning wrenches for a living. You'll find you really don't need or use that many ratchets. Till you figure...

Tekton sockets have stupid simple warranty, e-mail picture of broken tool, they put another in the mail and go on with your day. I've had pretty good luck beating on them. GP you might as well just buy another instead of trying to warranty. I've never tried to warranty a sunex. What's your time...