Thank you for the opportunity to respond to your question.
Lets take a popular
Snap-On toolchest in the KRL series, such as the KRL1023 Series Roll Cab. This is a Triple Bank toolchest with 22 drawers. A very popular configuration. It is 72 7/8" long and weighs 892 lbs. The price on this product is $8,895.00.
Vault manufacturers a similar cabinet which is called a Triple Workchest. It comes in 6 different drawer configurations, all of which are 72" in length and weigh 770lbs. Our 21 drawer is the most expensive toolchest (cabinet) that we manufacture and you can order it in any of the following three options for your worksurface:
1) Powder Coated Worktop = $8,275.00
2) !.5" thick Brushed Stainless Top = $8,550.00
3) 3/4" thick PaperStone Top = $8,825.00
As for the product quality of Vault compared to Snap-On, Craftsman, Lista, Stanley Vidmar, Matco, and Mac Tools, that is for the readers of this forum to decide. If you will take a moment to review our product catalog (
http://www.showroomgarage.com/_pdf/vault_product_catalog.pdf) which showcases the features that make Vault different from other leading brands and after doing due diligence you find a product of higher quality, please bring the company and their product to our attention.
Vault was founded because we felt there was high-cost and low-quality in the tool storage industry. There has been no innovation in this industry for the last 50 years and so we set out to make a change.
Lastly, regarding your question
“can it stand up to the abuse?” my answer is unequivocally YES! We did not design the Vault cabinet line to simply look great; first and foremost we designed them with practicality in mind. After all, what's the point of building something beautiful if it can't be used?
We engineered Vault cabinets unlike any other cabinet on the market. Case in point: what happens if you damage the panels or drawer on a competing box? You throw it away or buy a new one. Vault has designed all of our doors, panels, handles, drawer slides and drawers to be easily replaced, so in the event you damage a part of it, you simply remove the part and replace or repair it.
Mechanics are not going to care about how they treat their tool boxes so these boxes end up taking a tremendous amount of abuse over the years. Let’s say that you chip the powder coating on our drawers or doors … or simply want to change the color … not a problem; simply remove the fasteners from the backside and ship them out to be repainted.
We designed Vault cabinets with quality in mind, so:
Instead of cheap extruded aluminum handles, we use handles machined from solid metal. If, somehow, you damage a handle, simply unscrew the fasteners and we send you a new one.
Instead of single wall construction, all of our cabinet doors, drawers and side panels are thick double-wall construction.
Instead of thin gauge aluminum or steel which dents easily and has a locker room sound to it (because it is built flimsy), we built our cabinets from 304 grade (furniture-grade) stainless steel that is the thickest in the industry.
We are the only manufacture that offers full stainless steel construction throughout. We could build Vault cabinets out of stainless steel, aluminum or steel, but we ultimately decided upon 304 Grade stainless because it does not stain, corrode or rust as easily and it is stronger compared to ordinary metals. In the end analysis, we feel stainless was best suited to the environment to which our cabinets will be subjected to during their lifetime. Our raw material cost to specify stainless steel is higher ($0.65 per pound for steel versus almost $3.00 per pound for stainless), but the long-term cost advantages of stainless outweighs aluminum or steel.
In short, we designed and built our cabinets to last a lifetime of use and that we feel is worth paying for.
Thank you again for the opportunity.
Chad Haas
Chief Gearhead
Vault
www.showroomgarage.com
PS -if you would like a comparison guide to how we "stack up" against other leading brands, please contact us at Vault by visiting us at:
http://www.showroomgarage.com/contact.html
justinmc said:
That cabinet work is nothing if not overengineered and beautiful!
Looks like you guys do good work. How does your pricing stack up to say a Snap-On KRL series? I'm curious; the quality of your work appears to be above and beyond anything on that level but can it stand up to the abuse? Not that I'd be tempted to toss my greasy tools back into a cabinet that beautiful though! haha Seriously nice stuff.
