Let's see your toolbox.

[nathan_454]

Big *** drawers..

How often do you use your half-moon wrenches?

not very. but glad I have them when I do

 

[Maexle]

here some more progress on my roll around and the "mothership"

top drawers open:

closed:

Pliers:

wrenches:

a few of the socket sets:

 

[shocksandstrutz]

Maexle....is that a blueprint file cabinet??? love it man also, my dad would love that HARLEY theme box

 

[Maexle]

Maexle....is that a blueprint file cabinet??? love it man also, my dad would love that HARLEY theme box

Yepp, i've converted a Old Blueprint cabinet into my "mothership" tool box ( brand: STACOR)


That thing is a mule....so heavy and strong....... the roll around is a customized old beaten up Kennedy tool box.....

A bit work (paint, stickers, wooden top, lexan side walls, diamond plate, etc...) and i've had my "dream" roll around....

 

[jeffmoss26]

Maexle, that is a work of art!

 

[Adam McLaughlin]

Maexle; that blue print cab is spectacular!

Adam

 

[JASTECH]

Maexle, that looks like my bedroom, lol... Very nice blueprint cab conversion. I may have to watch for them at auctions more, looked at some but drawers were shallow.

 

[royslead]

Here is mine, it's the old Matco MB2010. After 22 years, it is on the verge of being replaced. I'm going with a shorter (height), modular design, comprised of two Snap On boxes. The hutch and top, which are about 18 years old, will be reused.

 

[bcradio]

Maexle that is an amazing setup there. I love the customized Kennedy box you have... it looks like it was done at the factory its so good.

 

[MoToys]

Have had the blue box for 8 years and just picked up the snap on pieces for 550$

What's the little red box on top on the workbench?

 

[Steevo]

This is my main toolbox now. I have semi-retired my 1970's vintage Snap-On box and roll-cab into service as my machine tooling box, and the vintage Rem-Line at the right of this pic is now used as my "house" box in the attached car garage.

 

[MegaManny009]

u guys have really nice set-ups, im going have to set it up. here i come harbor freight lol

 

[royslead]

Steevo, I love what you have built as a work bench, and if space permitted, I would most likely copy that design to a point.

 

[amlv20]

and my cart

my old set up.still have the box at home, traded in the cart to get the mac one.

 

[SpannerMonkey]

Some amazing setups here. Mine is very humble! I just fix my own cars and sometimes my friends and don't even have a garage of my own. A friend has kindly let me use his garage so that's where the pics are from. Most of my car repair work is out on the street in Scottish horizontal rain!

This was my only tool box for fifteen years:

My spanners were in a Pringles tube, the socket set sat on top and I had a cheap nasty tool bag for my breaker bar, torque wrench and other bits and bobs.

Then I bought a Peugeot 306 and joined an owners club. I learned a lot from them on how to tackle jobs on the car and it gave me the confidence to do a lot more work on the car myself. So I started spending money on more tools. I bought a load of spanners but the only place I could keep them was in a bucket! So I bought a second hand Clarke HD chest for £60:

It was great having all my tools organized and easy to access. I liked my car and wanted to keep it a long time so replaced and upgraded the whole front suspension and a load of other jobs. Then the engine blew! I found a Citroen with the same engine for £325 which I've been driving around in for months now. I'm swapping the engine from that into to the Peugeot so it's a good excuse for buying more tools! More tools means bigger box time so I was delighted to score this for £85 off Ebay:

It's a Sealey AP4805s. The box is a customer return due to dents. You can see the dents and rust on the top. Functionally it's brand new though and is mint inside. I love the 440mm depth of the drawers but they're only 49mm high so I have to watch how I lay stuff out. I've only a couple of photos of the contents as I'm still sorting my tools out in it.

 

[Maexle]

This is my main toolbox now. I have semi-retired my 1970's vintage Snap-On box and roll-cab into service as my machine tooling box, and the vintage Rem-Line at the right of this pic is now used as my "house" box in the attached car garage.

Now this is great, absolutely nice, i love it..... i hope you're not upset if i copy your design / layout in my future (final) garage !

 

[Maexle]

Thanks guys, i've had the idea with the blueprint cabinet once while i was sitting in my office at work (got a similar cabinet there which gets barely used nowadays).

I love it and that thing is a beast (Brand is : STACOR), i just re-organized the garage and pushed the complete full box from one side of the garage to another on my own without problems (heavy duty castors is the secret...).

I always keep my eyes peeled for another one (future garage).

The "Kennedy-Harley" box is my roll-around toolbox, i like the Kennedy boxes, i think the quality is good and they pop up on CL pretty often for a decent price.

 

[Maexle]

Maexle, that looks like my bedroom, lol... Very nice blueprint cab conversion. I may have to watch for them at auctions more, looked at some but drawers were shallow.

don't worry about the shallow drawers, i've combined the two bottom drawers to one deeper drawer for power tools, etc....

That's an easy modification, on my next one i will probably combine 4 drawers into two deep drawers.

 

[ianguilly]

Just got the locker today. Good for awhile now

 

[balane]

Just got the locker today. Good for awhile now

Holy cow, that's like a dozen feet of green!

 

[ianguilly]

Holy cow, that's like a dozen feet of green!

I'm not a fan of red blue or black tool boxes.

 

[davin24]

whats the part number on the cart???

 

[ianguilly]

whats the part number on the cart???

It's a blue point cart KRBC7TDPJJ.

 

[Ironhorse]

 

[hondakilla98]

Here's my new tool box, I'm 6'3 300 lbs..

 

[TDWendt]

and my cart

my old set up.still have the box at home, traded in the cart to get the mac one.

How do you like the classic 60? Thinking about getting one(used) for IMO a good price(sub $400)

 

[Jawn]

Here's my new tool box, I'm 6'3 300 lbs..

Nice, I keep eyeballing that one and the 36"er at Northern every time I'm in there.

 

[ihateminimumwage]

Here's my new tool box, I'm 6'3 300 lbs..

We have a guy at the diesel shop that's about 5' 4" that has that same setup. Another (taller) guy likes to hang his keys from the lid latch, far out of reach.

I have to say, I really like the Homak Pro boxes.

 

[Kevin54]

I'm liking the Caddy seat also

 

[5mall5nail5]

Here's my new HF Box and some layout shots now that I am starting to transition to it:


HF 44" by Jon Kensy, on Flickr


Socket drawer by Jon Kensy, on Flickr


Craftsman Industrials by Jon Kensy, on Flickr


Raised Panel Drawer by Jon Kensy, on Flickr


Ratcheting Wrench Drawer by Jon Kensy, on Flickr


Plier Drawer by Jon Kensy, on Flickr


Ratchet drawer by Jon Kensy, on Flickr

 

[lowbucktruck]

Good eye, Kevin. That Caddy couch is sweet, Ironhorse! We need to see more pics of that!

 

[dandan111]

Nice organizing 5mall! Clean set up.

 

[zjrog]

5mall, I think I just decided to add that side box to my HF box. Thanks! Nice organizing too...

 

[Akfrostbyte]

5mall.. who is the manufacturer of those red larger wrench rails??

 

[Lil Toe]

5mall.. who is the manufacturer of those red larger wrench rails??

Looks like Ernst:

http://www.ernstmfg.com/products_wrenches_rail.php

 

[balane]

That Harbor Freight setup looks really nice. That's a lot of storage for the money. I used to have one of those 42" boxes too so I know they're an excellent bang for the buck. I had no regrets with mine but just found a nice deal on an old Snap On cabinet that I couldn't pass up. Otherwise the HF box would still be sitting in my garage. I sold it for $350 too (just the 42" roll cab.) so you have a good resale value to look forward to should the need arise.

 

[5mall5nail5]

Yes they are Ernst

Thanks everyone

 

[BHH]

Doesn't having the combination to the lock on the back of the lock defeat the purpose of the lock?

 

[Akfrostbyte]

Looks like Ernst:

http://www.ernstmfg.com/products_wrenches_rail.php

Thanks for the info on the rails.. yet another "must have" courtesy of GJ!

 

[Maexle]

Doesn't having the combination to the lock on the back of the lock defeat the purpose of the lock?

Well, it's not the combination, it's our wedding date, that's a woman's thing, my wife did put it on there for me as a reminder.......