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New Carlyle Toolboxes vs HF US General and ICON

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Mr_B

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If you add in the equation the ICON fairly easy get around 20% off with in store reductions and credit card deal and perhaps even a simple 20% icon storage coupon code and fact box actually bigger capacity the Napa not such a good deal .
Best deal is always used market but if can't sort used milking ICON at lowest possible discounted price is not a bad option .
 

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Yeah the carlyle are Homak made but to slightly different/lesser layout/spec than the Homak RS Pro .
 

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Where are the coupons for ICON? Discounts outside the CC?

NAPA is fairly easy to get 10% off.
one very recent thread by hibill on how he got 20% off this very 73" (most HF managers do you 10% in store for a start)
The Carlye boxes are short on height and drawers and fall short on storage vs a truck box or ICON because of it .
 

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I suspect you could do better with harbor freight than Carlyle, but I don’t regularly check out Napa’s sale fliers and coupons etc. so there might be more wiggle room than I think.
 

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Napa is releasing new Carlyle toolboxes last quarter this year. (yep, very soon) Supposedly they are to directly compete with Snap-On Epic and are not simply rebadged Homak like in Canada. I will be interested to hear about them in more detail. They've done a couple teasers on the Carlyle social media page but haven't given up much info yet or detailed information.
 
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dstblj52

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Napa is releasing new Carlyle toolboxes last quarter this year. (yep, very soon) Supposedly they are to directly compete with Snap-On Epic and are not simply rebadged Homak like in Canada. I will be interested to hear about them in more detail. They've done a couple teasers on the Carlyle social media page but haven't given up much info yet or detailed information.
So they went to the same oem as icon and said that please most likely lol, well price competition is good for the consuner
 

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Napa is releasing new Carlyle toolboxes last quarter this year. (yep, very soon) Supposedly they are to directly compete with Snap-On Epic and are not simply rebadged Homak like in Canada. I will be interested to hear about them in more detail. They've done a couple teasers on the Carlyle social media page but haven't given up much info yet or detailed information.
I have a pretty high opinion of Homak, but they're at a higher price level.
 

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Speaking as someone who had shallow top drawer and sockets laid down, versus now having deep top drawer and sockets standing up. I will take sockets standing up every time! Better organization and space usage.
 

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Personally I could not disagree more. Deeper top allows me the ability to stand a bunch of sockets up.
You could fit about 3 deep sockets standing on each other with how deep it is. You can almost stand an impact wrench up on end in it. It's about 25% deeper than any other top drawer I've ever seen.
 

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You could fit about 3 deep sockets standing on each other with how deep it is. You can almost stand an impact wrench up on end in it. It's about 25% deeper than any other top drawer I've ever seen.
I assume you mean the Carlyle, which I'll admit I didn't realize was as deep as it is, so that's a fair point. I think the Icon/USG look like they are a good balance but to each their own.
 
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