My storage buy
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maddawg308
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I say keep the color the way it is. Old-style industrial looks very cool....
pain
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I have been looking all over for a set like that. Great find
Yeah I'm kinda liking it also
Outlawmws
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Paint 'em Olive drab. (Walmart has it in the flat Camo paint...) I did one drawer like that (then discovered it wasn't QUITE a fit) for one I'm planing on stripping and repainting. Plus OD works as "period correct" and is durable (easily touched up too if you do scrape it.)
Dale B
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I have some card files that I keep small parts in and I painted the 10 drawers in rainbow colors , a sparate color per drawer..I like it , makes for a brite spot in all the junk ..I'll see if I can post a pic ..........
Dan in Pasadena
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I have been looking all over for a set like that. Great find
Me too!
You ****
Ok, not really...but I DO want a set just like that. On second thought, I was right. You ****
buzz4041
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Great find. I can never find these on the cheap like you did so I bought some from Durham. It is nice to be organized.
7th Kahuna
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Great find. With so many of us looking for something similar, you would think there would be a lot more of them tucked away in garages and turning up at garage sales and swap meets. Did our parents just have fewer things to store or did they all use baby food jars like my dad?
Outlawmws
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This, and my dad used peanut butter jars mostly...
7th Kahuna
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Yeah, come to think of it, my brother and I will be inheriting a fair number of Laura Scudders jars. 
koditten
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Leave 'em as they are. I have the same ones in my shop. I don't know what that color is called, but leave it be. The dark green is cool.
KO
KO
Steevo
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I have two of those units that I picked up at a going out of business sale, filled with socket-head metric cap screws.
I sold the contents for 10x what I paid for the drawer units.
The units fit perfectly in 36" metal shelves, too!
I sold the contents for 10x what I paid for the drawer units.
The units fit perfectly in 36" metal shelves, too!
darkk
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Painting them might look great but that's alot of sanding. Sounds like a winter project.
AeroNautiCal
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Great find!
Liking your steel bench top too.
Liking your steel bench top too.
Those are sweet
Seams like a ton of sanding. I was thinking if I used my sandblasting cabinet with glass bead or fine sand in it with a lower pressure on the drawers it might work. I like the color and would just repaint to get back to the origional color. The drawers have old tape and crud on them I would like to clean them up. We'll see if there is time this winter. It not like I said they work either way.
92GreenYJ
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I see tons of cool units like that at our local antique mall. For some reason every single one of them has a not for sale sign on them. They are just being used to display the stuff that is for sale. Jerks
Blast cabinet just might be the way to go.