best tool box ive ever seen

[dieselmike]

http://www.rousseaumetal.com/

amazing!!!

 

[G1GRANDEUR]

Explain how it's BEST.

 

[Avgas]

and have you REALLY seen it?

 

[dieselmike]

heavyest unit, smoothest sliding drawers, nicest "grip-latch" system, excellent design, made in canada! nicer than the lista's ive seen

 

[TheCarbideRat]

Canada?! Where is this Canada?

 

[TXNinAZ]

Explain how it's BEST.

Awkward Penguin

 

[PCO6]

This is going down hill. Too bad - great boxes.

 

[littletoes]

I like this one;

http://www.rousseaumetal.com/Cart/P...UFI&Desc=Multi-Drawer Cabinet, 20 drawers (60

 

[dwm]

The Rousseau boxes are very nice. I missed one on craigslist last year and had just stopped kicking myself, then this thread popped up.

 

[Carl B]

I'm sure it's just a person pet peeve - but if a vendor doesn't list the suggested retail of their products on their Web Site with all other important information about their product - - - I don't bother to ask. Just move on to the next vendor...

These might be nice boxes - but their Web Site doesn't exhibit "Quality" in my opinion.

I am always happy to buy things from Canada - half my neighbors are from there ;-)

FWIW,
Carl B.

 

[msnow]

Used both the Lista and the Rousseau and I prefer the Lista sorry

 

[Steevo]

How is that pronounced in Canadian?

 

[diernosaj]

They actually make stuff in Canada besides hockey jerseys?

 

[PCO6]

How is that pronounced in Canadian?

Roo-sew ... eh.

 

[Roots]

I'm sure it's just a person pet peeve - but if a vendor doesn't list the suggested retail of their products on their Web Site with all other important information about their product - - - I don't bother to ask. Just move on to the next vendor....

I understand, but with business to business commercial/industrial sales, that's a normal operating procedure. Their end user or customers, are not home garage owners, or at least ones who would question a price.

 

[Chris Adams]

I understand, but with business to business commercial/industrial sales, that's a normal operating procedure. Their end user or customers, are not home garage owners, or at least ones who would question a price.

True. They are only targeting people who are not spending their own money.
Big Businesses, Unions, Governments, brokers for people who buy as tax shelters.

People who spend their own money want prices.

Anyone who's bought or sold from really rich people, not posers, know they bargain harder than any person in a flea market.


One of my most memorable days was watching my boss(BIG company, you've bought from them, if you live in the western world) HAMMERING a Porsche sales man, actually a factory rep, in Stuttgart. We were there on 'business' but he was really over there to bring home a new 959, when they first came out. He was arguing and picking on every little thing.
I think he saved a few thousand marks.

Almost as memorable as riding passenger with white knuckles as he tested it to see if it was as fun as either of his Ferrari's.
I was lucky enough to catch the next flight home, he had to drive the thing across Germany to make it under the 'used import' laws.

 

[crewchief888]

They actually make stuff in Canada besides hockey jerseys?

yea they make pucks too


sorry guys.

i had to say it

 

[dieselmike]

yea they make pucks too


sorry guys.

i had to say it

don't worry about it. im a hockey nut and i play hockey, i grew up playing hockey LOL. pucks and hockey tape are getting outsourced too. harder to find canadian stuff. but honestly, these rooseau cabinets are insanely nice, a fellow at work today and i were talking about them. the latches are a design i really really like, and the fact that they custom make cabinets is nice too. the cabinet i saw was probably 54" ish wide, about 4 feet tall, 2 feet deep and so heavy it was like it was welded to the floor. it was 2800$

 

[BigAl62]

yea they make pucks too


sorry guys.

i had to say it

What the puck are you talking about?

 

[Jim Johnstone]

The machine shop I worked at used their cabinets for storing all our tooling, ie. drill bits, carbide and HSS end mills, etc. They were very heavily loaded and VERY stout, smooth drawers. The ones we had actually ran on sealed bearings, not ball bearing slides.

 

[Yojinbo]

Those look great, too bad I will probably never see one down here.

I could care less about the look of the website. I have not noticed a direct relationship between the quality of the website and the quality of the product in most cases.

 

[waggie]

Awkward Penguin

sigh...

now that's outta the way... does buying Canadian stuff as bad as buying chi-com stuff? I mean, it's still foreign, eh?

 

[PCO6]

sigh...

now that's outta the way... does buying Canadian stuff as bad as buying chi-com stuff? I mean, it's still foreign, eh?

Yes it is and we're still each others largest trading partner.

 

[-->]

Personally I wouldn't mind buying canadian over chinese. I don't see too many human rights issues in canada nowadays. ALso, they're not communist. Closer value of currency, pretty good whiskey and they always make me laugh when they say "eh". Wasnt half of SNL from canada? I'd buy canadian.

 

[littletoes]

Yes it is and we're still each others largest trading partner.

I have no problem whatsoever buying anything of quality from Canada. I consider them my Northern Brothers.

But then, those of us in the Pacific Northwest have had a reputation of sticking with our Brothers to the North, even to the point of preferring them over our own corrupt government.

Read an FBI report on this very thing years ago.....something about this areas fierce independent nature.

Supposed to be some of the most independent folks in the US, yep, more so than the Southern Rednecks....more Survivalists in this part of the World, than ANYWHERE. And the Border doesn't get in the way either.

 

[PCO6]

No rednecks up here ... just hosers.

Bob and Doug McKenzie ...

 

[dieselmike]

I have no problem whatsoever buying anything of quality from Canada. I consider them my Northern Brothers.

But then, those of us in the Pacific Northwest have had a reputation of sticking with our Brothers to the North, even to the point of preferring them over our own corrupt government.

Read an FBI report on this very thing years ago.....something about this areas fierce independent nature.

Supposed to be some of the most independent folks in the US, yep, more so than the Southern Rednecks....more Survivalists in this part of the World, than ANYWHERE. And the Border doesn't get in the way either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_(independence_movement)

yep, ive got a good buddies in post falls and north of him in bc. i was born to survive, know a bit about living off the land

 

[bmwpower]

Lista ripoff?

 

[PCO6]

Here's an overhead of the Rouseau factory which opened in 1950. Lista came to North America in 1968. It looks like major expansion occurred after the ripoffs started.

 

[dieselmike]

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=bl_sr_h...26939406&rh=n:228013,p_4:Rousseau&sort=-price

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