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MrSnicks

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Yeah. I can't speak for the Quiet Glide, but have them in the Griplatch Ball Bearing version and LOVE them. They could be deeper, but *shrug* I'm just a regular guy and don't have a huge budget.

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the problem there, and the reason to wait till you can afford a little better boxes is the ""Quiet Glide"", once you get a couple years wear and a bunch of tools in there the drawers will stick and be hard to open and close.

I cant understand a company that makes non ball bearing slides any more, the difference in the cost of the two types of slides cant be much at all.
 
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O_M_Jeep said:
I cant understand a company that makes non ball bearing slides any more, the difference in the cost of the two types of slides cant be much at all.
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My guess is that it's a marketing thing. They probably figure they can charge more for the BB with that middle range in there.
 
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bimmerZ5

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that top chest is only 100lbs. that's very light for 40" wide box... one of my gladiator 26" wide top chests weighs the same... that's very thin metal.
 
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My 44" HF top chest weighs 285 lbs +/- empty. And I notice the drawer weight limit is 50 lbs per drawer on the C'man boxes, that means you can have a wrench set in a drawer, most of a socket set in another, thats really a very low weight limit. Most boxes are well over 100 lbs to 200 lbs per drawer. MechanicNamedJohn took this pic of his HF 44" bottom cabnet. -

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I buy a lot of Craftsman tools. I recently bought the limited edition combo for about $270. The quality wasn't there, so I took it back. I went with the Harbor Freight 42" cabinet. At that time, Sears had the 40" Griplatch model for half price, it's a nicer unit IMHO than the Quiet Glide, which I inspected on a trip to Sears last week. I'm glad I went with the HF for $350, it really seems like a better unit than the 40" Griplatch, even paying half price.

I think the Quiet Glide units are just too close in price not to go with the Ball Bearing. Like Super Sport said, it's just a maketing thing, designed to make people happy with higher priced units.
 
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The Quiet Glide 40" unit was also in the August Craftsman Club flyer.

I have a couple of Quiet Glide chests and a couple of ball bearing griplatch chests. If someone used them daily, I could see skipping the Quiet Glide. Quiet Glide is OK for the weekend wrencher.
 
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The Quiet Glides were ok in the older well made boxes. Once they cheapened them up, the true crapiness of the quiet glide show up compared to a BB drawer.
 
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