Big Dad
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Trying to figure out a proper use for the area on the wall and along the sides of my tool chest ..
pictures of any ideas ?
pictures of any ideas ?
**** above tool box shots !
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d.mcfarland
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rburke65
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dmcfarland looks to have a pretty good photo for starters!
A pic of your current situation might be helpful.
Ray-CA
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isb cornbinder
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Knowledge is knowing that F=ma. Wisdom is knowing why that is important.
This guy was so smart he had a fig filled cookie named after himself.
This guy was so smart he had a fig filled cookie named after himself.
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dadsEH
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Good one.....it took a minute...lol
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Falcon67
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Much gravity is what you say
a52-830
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and a town in Massachusetts.
been there, eaten that. the cookie is better . . . . .
laser3kw
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I see what you did there
(actually, the cookie was named after a town in Massachusetts)
driftpin
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I have a machinist's fraction/decimal drill/tap chart from a steel supply business in Miami FL I got when a friend closed his steel fabrication business after 40 years. It's so-old, there's no zip code and no area code for the phone #, and the phone # has an exchange name prefix instead of numbers. It's lithographed steel, and the real deal. It has weight, can you sense the gravity of having mass like this?
'BigDad,' I have Gladiator cabinets similar to those, mounted to the masonry walls, five of the 30 x 30" I bought from Sears when on-sale, I got them for < $90 apiece. When the clerk told me the price (they were in a close-out area) I asked him, "how-many do you have," and bought them all. Made by Whirlpool Corp. I have a couple of tall welded-steel floor-standing cabinets too, one by Craftsman, and one by Kobalt, bought at different times for a total of $160. The Sears was new, the Kobalt was a Habitat for Humanity find. I wanted to buy a dented Sears that was the floor model at a discount, and the clerk I spoke to said, "I have to ask my manager if I can sell it."
The manager came-out and said, "I'll sell you a new-in-box one for the same price as I would the dented one," and if I had the space, I would have bought two. Good deal!
For wall and cabinet decorations, I also have some reproduction tin signs I bought many years ago, just because I like the pictures. I also save the nameplates from some of the vehicles I've owned over the years, I'm going to mount them to a backerboard and hang it over the garage door, which I see is where a lot of people hang their license plate collection. I have a few plates, but not a wall-full. The oldest is a 1930 California plate a retired Miami cop gave me. I also have some old brewing company tins and advertisements, and one new one from a microbrewery that has gears on it I have mounted, but the old ones, I'm still in the planning stage of how to mount them.
'BigDad,' I have Gladiator cabinets similar to those, mounted to the masonry walls, five of the 30 x 30" I bought from Sears when on-sale, I got them for < $90 apiece. When the clerk told me the price (they were in a close-out area) I asked him, "how-many do you have," and bought them all. Made by Whirlpool Corp. I have a couple of tall welded-steel floor-standing cabinets too, one by Craftsman, and one by Kobalt, bought at different times for a total of $160. The Sears was new, the Kobalt was a Habitat for Humanity find. I wanted to buy a dented Sears that was the floor model at a discount, and the clerk I spoke to said, "I have to ask my manager if I can sell it."
The manager came-out and said, "I'll sell you a new-in-box one for the same price as I would the dented one," and if I had the space, I would have bought two. Good deal!
For wall and cabinet decorations, I also have some reproduction tin signs I bought many years ago, just because I like the pictures. I also save the nameplates from some of the vehicles I've owned over the years, I'm going to mount them to a backerboard and hang it over the garage door, which I see is where a lot of people hang their license plate collection. I have a few plates, but not a wall-full. The oldest is a 1930 California plate a retired Miami cop gave me. I also have some old brewing company tins and advertisements, and one new one from a microbrewery that has gears on it I have mounted, but the old ones, I'm still in the planning stage of how to mount them.
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LX-Markham
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that pin-up still looks great after all these years
(that ad campaign has got to be from the early 90's)
SuperCat
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Perhaps a shoplight on the bottom of the middle cabinets. Looks like you've got room for a couple of shallow shelves or pegboard, take your choice. Go for it and post pix. 
crewchief888
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not much room above 2 sets of my boxes when the top is open. on one set the open top just clears the shelf above it, another set i cant even open the top all the way up bottom of my rafters are at about 8ft
i have a couple plywood "platforms" the previous owner had installed in the garage for storage. big enough to hold 2 or 3 storage bins.
one gets used during the winter for some of the wifes outdoor decorations, the other has a storage tote full of wiring harness connectors, spare seat for my harley, subwoofer and one speaker for the garage stereo
above one set of boxes i have a couple old fibre metal welding hoods just hanging around, and i keep an old framing square resting on the top of the box.
i have a couple plywood "platforms" the previous owner had installed in the garage for storage. big enough to hold 2 or 3 storage bins.
one gets used during the winter for some of the wifes outdoor decorations, the other has a storage tote full of wiring harness connectors, spare seat for my harley, subwoofer and one speaker for the garage stereo
above one set of boxes i have a couple old fibre metal welding hoods just hanging around, and i keep an old framing square resting on the top of the box.
SuperCat
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James E
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Do I really need to say this? When you have empty wall space, you don't have enough cabinets.
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That is very well done! Times like this I wish this site had a like buuton
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I like that !
1foxracing
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Late 80's.
Here is a picture of me from 1988 when I was in the Navy stationed at NAS Miramar with the same poster on the wall.
LS6 Tommy
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Another good idea ( bit off topic though )
If those are available commercially, I want one. My wood working skills are, well, not skills...
Tommy
LS6 Tommy
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Late 80's.
Here is a picture of me from 1988 when I was in the Navy stationed at NAS Miramar with the same poster on the wall.
I have the same cassette box. I got mine in '85. I put the "hook" side of Velcro tape on the sides to secure it to the carpet floor behind the seats in my CRX.
Tommy
