New boxes

[CodigoRojo]

I got rid of my home made roll cabs. They were nice but took up too much space in my small garage at 40 wide and 30 deep times two.


I got this decent Husky box at HD for $300 because of soem minor scratches and whatnot.




Now I think I'm gonna stack another one on top.



Anyone else think I'm stupid for doing this?

 

[mikey03]

What are you trying to do? If you want a small cart you can move around close to the car or even out into the driveway than stacking another on top will make it heavy and clunky and maybe risk falling over.

if your plan is just to keep it in that spot and never move it then adding more drawers on top means more room for tools. More tools is more better!

 

[rsanter]

Those home made cabinets sure look nice

Any pix of inside the drawers

 

[cgrutt]

They should make a top chest for that roll cab but not sure if you'll have room to open top under your shelving.

 

[PugetDude]

I have four of those Husky cabinets side by side, they make a great narrow workspace.

 

[Renegade1LI]

I have the same ones, I like them stacked. I think you get more storage with two bottoms and they were cheap.

 

[CodigoRojo]

I have the same ones, I like them stacked. I think you get more storage with two bottoms and they were cheap.

Awesome! That's exactly what I was thinking of doing, except leaving my casters on the bottom. The available Husky top chest is only 16 deep and I need more real estate than that. And I don't have room to open up the top chest lid anyway when I keep my cab parked under the pallet rack shelving. Thanks

They should make a top chest for that roll cab but not sure if you'll have room to open top under your shelving.

Exactly! Shelves block the lid. Plus the premade top chest is only 16 deep.
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Those home made cabinets sure look nice

Any pix of inside the drawers

Not much of a photographer. Just this:

All the taller drawers had double roller slides. They were nice cabs just too big for the space. Sold them for a $grand so I can trade straight across for a couple cheap roll cabs.

 

[TurnipTruck]

I have five of the Husky cabinets, but haven’t decided permanent places for three yet.


-I never thought of stacking them! Maybe with wheels off I could still see in the top drawer…-

 

[Vinny]

Do you have the plans for those homemade cabinets? I'd like to make a set.

 

[CodigoRojo]

Do you have the plans for those homemade cabinets? I'd like to make a set.

Sorry, I made them on the fly with no plans. I measured my space and started cutting. Just a bunch of edge banded 3/4 birch plywood, doweled, glued and pocket screwed. I have those blue plastic Rockler "clamp-it" corner clamping jigs which really help building carcasses (sorry, I try to use the word carcass as often as possible). The drawers were made from 1x cvg fir with 1/2 plywood bottoms. I got a metric ****-ton of cheap 30" roller full extension drawer slides online so I could double them on any drawer tall enough, and some footmaster leveling casters. Made drawer pulls from aluminum channel. I guesstimate between $500-1000 in materials. About 2 weeks total build time.

If you keep your front face dimensions within 48x96 you can bookmatch the drawer fronts from a single sheet of plywood. I have two design regrets: 1. I decided to build the top chests after I built the bottom boxes. So the top chest drawer fronts don't bookmatch with the bottom boxes, a minor cosmetic issue. 2. When loaded with 1000 lbs of tools, the bottom box sagged about 1/8" in the middle, causing the bottom drawer front lip to rub a little when closing. I fixed it by retrofitting a piece of 1/4" wall 1x1 square steel tubing under the bottom front of the box from side to side. Problem solved. The big opening in the cabinet carcass is a weakness, especially with wood.

I sold them after 5 years of abuse for $1000. It was a fun project and I would do it all over again someday if needed. Go for it!

 

[tarbellb]

Might consider upgrading those casters

You could incorporate a pull out step under the cab if you need more height

 

[CodigoRojo]

Might consider upgrading those casters

You could incorporate a pull out step under the cab if you need more height

Funny you mention that. I have some ebay Snap-On 6" sprung casters coming in the mail. Total height when I stack the bottom boxes even with the 9" tall casters will be 65" (5'-5") so height not a problem either way. If you look at the sketchup rendering in the 3rd picture you can see that I'm going to chop the top full width drawer off just above the intermediate horizontal brace. That's the only way it will fit in my space. Easy chop job. Just screw the butcher block back on top, maybe weld the original sheet metal top back on first. Maybe not.

 

[CodigoRojo]

I just finished putting on some Snap-On Masters style chrome trim. It's just polished aluminum channel slipped over some steel square tube that's bolted to the front of the vertical framing with rivnuts.



Next step in my Masters clone project is to replace the bulky, curved aluminum drawer pulls with some thinner, cleaner looking aluminum j-cap trim pieces I have laying around. They're pretty small/thin so polishing them will be tricky. Prolly have to do it by hand.

 

[CodigoRojo]

I finished my top chest fab and installed it today. I've been lurking at Home Depot looking for a beat up Husky box exactly like my first one so I could score a deal. The 52x25 9 drawer boxes are harder to find than other sizes.

Since the two boxes stacked wouldn't fit under my shelving, I whacked off the top drawer which shortened the top box by about 7 inches. That was more room than I needed so I made a little slide out writing table drawer in between the top and bottom boxes, using 2x3 rec tube spacers to connect the boxes and mount the drawer slides to. For now I've got my go-to hand tools in there.

 

[Mr_B]

I finished my top chest fab and installed it today. I've been lurking at Home Depot looking for a beat up Husky box exactly like my first one so I could score a deal. The 52x25 9 drawer boxes are harder to find than other sizes.

Since the two boxes stacked wouldn't fit under my shelving, I whacked off the top drawer which shortened the top box by about 7 inches. That was more room than I needed so I made a little slide out writing table drawer in between the top and bottom boxes, using 2x3 rec tube spacers to connect the boxes and mount the drawer slides to. For now I've got my go-to hand tools in there.

looks great, lot of practical value custom sized storage and the pull out shelf useful concept as can leave shallow objects/tools on it closed .
that polished trim really makes it look proper expensive setup ...

 

[Sbusmech]

I got rid of my home made roll cabs. They were nice but took up too much space in my small garage at 40 wide and 30 deep times two.


I got this decent Husky box at HD for $300 because of soem minor scratches and whatnot.




Now I think I'm gonna stack another one on top.



Anyone else think I'm stupid for doing this?

This actually a pretty good idea. Maximum use of available space.