Free Equipto Score

[ihatelaramie]

Sorry for the crappy cell phone pics, but I thought I might share this with yall. The shop I work for was cleaning house and I saw all these Equipto units stacked up on a pallet outside. I asked, and the boss said I could have em, as long as I cleaned out all the stuff inside. There's a dozen of these, and almost every drawer was full of what I guess were samples of various metals. Lotsa stainless, aluminum, brass, stuff marked as Inconel (different grades), Stellite, commercial grade zirconium(?), and other random ****. No idea where this stuff came from, except an invoice for Shell Oil back in the early 70s. Either way, I got all 12 units for free.

I won't be short on bolt storage any time soon. Anyway, my deal is that I'm trying to get them up off of the floor. We were thinking of building a frame to get them up. Would a sturdy wood frame suffice? Or would be metal be better? If anybody any input to offer, I'm all ears..

 

[jeffmoss26]

OHHHH you ****!!!!!!

 

[porschedude996TT]

You ****!

 

[nine4gmc]

there is no way to measure the vacuum you have created!! MAJOR SUCKAGE!!!

 

[ihatelaramie]

Damn, I felt good when I got these things, I feel even better now that I realize how much I ****.. anyone have any idea what these might be worth?

 

[SRX]

there is no way to measure the vacuum you have created!! MAJOR SUCKAGE!!!

Exactly!

Congrats on the super score!

 

[Jeff]

This is the best score I've seen on GJ for many years.

You sucketh.

 

[KSB]

Good deal!!

If you have access to a welder I would build yourself a steel frame for them out of angle.

A wood frame could be made strong enough.

 

[nine4gmc]

-snip- anyone have any idea what these might be worth?

They are pretty much worthless, you said you got them free. Tell you what, send them to me and I will save you the trouble of organizing all your things. WIN - WIN

 

[ihatelaramie]

They are pretty much worthless, you said you got them free. Tell you what, send them to me and I will save you the trouble of organizing all your things. WIN - WIN

Oh come on man.. I may end up getting rid of some of them, depending on space.. if I do, yall will be the first to know.

 

[Steevo]

That is one sweet freebie.

YOU ****!

 

[KSwiss]

Pretty much worthless... Ill pay shipping to send it here

 

[Vegaman_Dan]

What size is each unit? What are the drawer sizes?

While the drawers are really cool, if the drawers are too small, it may be somewhat limiting in what you can put in there. Still, if you have to use a dozen drawers to hold one type of bolt size, you certainly have *dozens* of drawers to use.

 

[Falcon67]

Wow - what a score.

 

[my58]

Yes, you **** big time!

As to your question I like a metal frame best. It will be solid it will make them take up less room, however if you do not have metal, your good with wood and you do not have space problems I think you could build a great cabinet that frames them nicely out of wood.

So just take your SUCKY deal and build something to hold them already

 

[Bull]

Daaaaaammmmnnn!!

 

[ihatelaramie]

Thanks for all the kind words...

Vegaman_Dan- you mentioned drawer size. I kinda wished they were a bit bigger, but at 4" wide, 2" deep, and nearly 11" long, I can't really complain, especially one you factor in the price. Each unit has 32 drawers, and the ones pictured are missing a few, but I do have a couple more units to pick up yet..

 

[caper150]

I'll trade you 1 of my free cabinets for half of these LOl

nice haul, free is always good

 

[nine4gmc]

how many "units" are pictured? I think you got a better deal than I thought you did...

 

[WILD-BILL]

Ok, Not only do you **** but you get not one but two......

 

[ihatelaramie]

nine4gmc- there's only 10 units in that picture... Got a few more to get yet, plus the one sitting on my workbench.

 

[fergus]

I think this amount of suckage deserves some kind of award.

 

[Outlawmws]

WARNING! Tornado warning in East Bernard, Tx!
Funnel cloud formed and is sucking in
everything in sight!​

 

[Outlawmws]

We were thinking of building a frame to get them up. Would a sturdy wood frame suffice? Or would be metal be better? If anybody any input to offer, I'm all ears..

Now that that duty is complete:

I'd say 2X4 frame with at least a 3/4" top should do it. Make sure its level (factoring in any floor slope)

And has anyone said you ****?

 

[ihatelaramie]

The suckage has been mentioned. We were thinking of doing a frame out of 2x4s, of course taking into account the slope of the floor, which is pretty bad. My only concern was of it tipping, or putting too much stress on the corners, at the joints. Are my concerns unfounded? Anyone with experience, please chime in..

 

[Jeff Ivers]

On any issue like this, there are always many variables. Assuming you want to stack multiple units on top of each other and side by side and fill them with nuts and bolts and other relatively heavy items, I would build a metal frame using square tubing with uprights either behind each joint or on the outside edges so you have something to attach each unit to. I would design in leveling feet like used on a refrigerator - though these could be made by welding a nut into the bottom of the tube legs and then threading a bolt into the nuts. Those units are in great shape and I would want to preserve that. Great find! Of course if you have more units than you can use, perhaps you could swap some for a fabbed stand for the ones you retain.

 

[Zrexxer]

I've got ONE of those exact same Equipto units, and I'd kill for even one more! I wouldn't even know what to do with 12 of them! I'd probably spend hours opening drawers looking for the right one, lol.

 

[OctoMan]

Awesome! Buy an M.G. then you'll have plenty of parts storage.

 

[lowbucktruck]

Holy Cow, I think he can start his own hardware store! Major sucking sound!!!
Yeah, you need to fabricate a metal frame for those. Probably need to design it with more than one shelf/level to help distribute the weight load. Maybe Unistrut would do?

 

[ihatelaramie]

What exactly is Unistrut? I've read about it some on here, but I'm not exactly sure what it is..

 

[JC23]

Oh, the suckage...

You need to start buying lottery tickets!

 

[Outlawmws]

The suckage has been mentioned. We were thinking of doing a frame out of 2x4s, of course taking into account the slope of the floor, which is pretty bad. My only concern was of it tipping, or putting too much stress on the corners, at the joints. Are my concerns unfounded? Anyone with experience, please chime in..

While a lot of the load is on the edges, I'd still top the 2X4 frame as I mentioned. I'd go with wood as it's easier to trim to odd shapes to fit the floor than making a steel frame with leveling legs to support what will ultimately be a LOT of weight.

What exactly is Unistrut? I've read about it some on here, but I'm not exactly sure what it is..

Unistrut is a "U"shaped structural metal channel with rolled edges on the open end so a sliding spring loaded nut can be used to bolt it together.

Handy stuff and I love Unustrut, but Unistrut is really intended for a bolt together frame, and if you tried use any of the slip over connectors for anything, its not really well suited as you will have high and low spots. Also you would still need to top it with something, and come up with leveling legs. I have no doubt it could be done, but I think it's more time, and $$ than it's worth, unless you have most of what you need already.

 

[ihatelaramie]

Outlawsmws- thanks for the input. We have a lot of extra 2x4s from a stillborn project so wood looks like it'll be the way to go.