A simple fix for a minor frustration--machinist's tool chest.

[Beerhippie]

If you use a machinist's tool chest much, you've probably experienced the same frustration I have:



If it has the lid open--and most have to to open a drawer--and you want to close the top drawer, those latches have always fallen down to frustrate you.

One small RE magnet here:






Fixed.

Works on a Kennedy, too:



It just takes half as many magnets.

That problem is solved!

Next up: Poverty, homelessness and world peace....

 

[Beerhippie]

A couple of follow-up notes:

With the magnet--which isn't glued, just stuck there--near the fulcrum like this, the bail stays up and out of the way, but will easily "bump" down when the lid is closed.

I just wish I remembered what the other thing was.....