Now I like a cold beverage.........

[dps]

okay Moose, I'm not gonna tell you how pretty that box is anymore until the long-awaited screwdriver tour...

 

[Moose-LandTran]

I was thinking about that yesterday, but i figure i'll hold off the tour until all my screwdrivers are here, and they're all laid out perfectly.

Don't worry, i'm as keen to show them off as you are to see them!

 

[Charles (in GA)]

lol, I'm in that boat too. My wife tried to buy me a stainless rolling chest from Costco. I told her I appreciate the thought, however, I would rather take that cool grand and buy tools with it instead. Even if it meant having to pile them up on a shelf for the time being.....to me it's like spending big bucks on a wallet.

On the flip side....I can totally understand why a professional auto tech would need to have such a beast. (The Snap-On type, not the Kobalt rolling entertainment tool holder.)

Its kinda like a gun collector that spends money on the toys, but doesn't want to spend the money on a gunsafe to keep them in.

I wished I could say that my box only weighed 800 lbs. I've thought about rolling it to the loading dock to actually weigh it, but I might not want to know what I'm pushing/towing around the hangar at work, I'm sure its well over a grand, and that is lightweight compared to most auto tech boxes.

Charles

 

[hamburglar]

Its kinda like a gun collector that spends money on the toys, but doesn't want to spend the money on a gunsafe to keep them in.

I wished I could say that my box only weighed 800 lbs. I've thought about rolling it to the loading dock to actually weigh it, but I might not want to know what I'm pushing/towing around the hangar at work, I'm sure its well over a grand, and that is lightweight compared to most auto tech boxes.

Charles

In my mind, gunsafe = rust unless you go to some trouble.

If you're pushing a half ton around in a hangar, I expect you're solving a problem that the amateurs rarely have...namely portability of the whole shebang plus the ability to lock up everything.

The whole giant toolbox vs. no giant toolbox issue for home garages is probably best left to another thread, but honestly I can't see the point of spending $500 /drawer to squirrel away things (tap and die sets, corded drills, etc. etc.) that I rarely use. Even if I felt the need to have a heavy things on wheels, I'd rather have multiple smaller ones.

For the home guys, I'd say that it usually just boils down more to esthetics than reality since a couple of Rubbermaid containers + a road chest would do just about as well for practically everybody.

 

[Rockwieser]

So I went to Lowe's this morning just to see if I could spot any good deals. What I saw was this:

https://www.kobalttools.com/

Now I like a cold beverage and I love tools, but come on. Do we really need a tool box with built in lights, radio, and refrigerator. And I thought it couldn't get any worse than the Craftsman AXS boxes. I guess Lowe's proved me wrong.

come on now...if I had the money I would buy it. I plan to put my little college fridge in the garage anyway as well as an AC window unit.

 

[MarkH]

There is always a marketer out there looking to part a fool and their money.

I will go with my separate fridge, if it blows I do not have to look for anything special to replace it, my separate TV, if it blows I do not have to look for anything special to replace it, my separate stereo if part of it blows no special parts to replace. I have seen so many things like this a few years old with parts that do not work and you cannot find the replacement or it is so costly you do not get it.

So reliable plain vanilla for me. I have reached the point that reliability and maintainability trumps lookin' cool or whatever it is called now.

We also move boxes. The Snap on TUG may be the way we end up going pushing boxes around with Bobcats in not easy on them.

 

[SpiderGearsMan]

Proof they do move (sometimes!):

Usual home, by the lift.

Next to my long-term project.

I would use the cart more often, but we tend to keep all the "in progress" cars right up and around the lift, otherwise we park them further down "Golf Doktor Alley".

is that a real shop , or do you rent fifty spaces in urban car park ?

 

[Moose-LandTran]

Is it a real shop. In the corner of an underground car park.