Hi Guys and Gals,
I recently became another owner of a Snap On KRSC46 cart, and quickly thereafter I discovered THIS gem of a thread. The mods I have seen on this thread are nothing short of what I expected from GarageJournal. I had no idea that 2" drawers could be fitted to this cart, nor did my Snap On rep. I will soon be ordering some of those, but in the meantime here is what I did to my KRSC46 today.
25.July.2014
What I love about the KRSC46 cart is the flip up lid feature. Unlike the cart's big brothers (roll away cabs), the KRSC46 utilizes a flip up lid that, when open, uncovers a 7" deep compartment, the left and right sides of which can vertically store up to a 36" pry-bar (breaker bar in my case). What few people choose to exploit about the flip up lid feature is the 7" depth. How deep are most of the tools you store in your top compartment? The tallest tools I store are the "long" hex sockets, which measure ~6" when atop a socket rail/tray. Above that 6" is an unclaimed inch+ of storage space. Atop the shorter of the tools I store in the top compartment of my KRSC46 lie three+ inches of storage space.
I love the feature/option of the Stahlwille mobile boxes that gives the owner the option to store tools on the under side of the flip up lid of the boxes, which renders them readily available upon opening:
This feature of the Stahlwille boxes got me thinking about how I could store drive tools, specifically ratchets.
Over the past few months, I have been tinkering in my one car garage with preliminary incarnations of some kind of ratchet storage on the flip up lid of my KRSC46. Previous incarnations were made of 1/4" MDF, which proved to be useful, as the cost, weight, and strength were easy to bear. Today however, the final rendering began to take form.
The back panel is 0.100" 5052 aluminum reinforced with 3/4" x 3/4" x 1/8" angle aluminum. The aluminum panel and structural members are attached via 1/8" x 1/4" aluminum pull rivets, the heads of which can be seen in the picture. The clips I chose to utilize are technically named "Terry Clips", which I ordered from Amazon.com. Applications of these clips are abound throughout GJ.com. The clips are attached to the rear panel of aluminum via either M3 x 0.5mm pan-heads or #8 x 32 pan-heads.
The spacers are simply aluminum tubing that I picked up from the local hardware store (
https://www.marshallshardware.com/, San Diego, CA) cut with a mini tubing cutter. The lower strip of wood is 3/4" Medium Density Fiberboard which was routed with a 1/4" round over bit and attached via screws through the rear of the cart's lid.
The ratchet panel is not complete yet. All the ratchets I keep in this box are attached, but soon the 1/4", 3/8", and 1/2" extensions and speeders will be attached.
Once all drive tools are attached, the panel and clips will receive a coating(s) of black Plasti-Dip.
I am looking forward to your reactions, and I look forward to finishing the ratchet panel.
I would sincerely like to thank all the people who have contributed to this thread. So far I love my KRSC46, and I am looking forward to improving it via mods inspired here. Thanks.
Updates will be posted as soon as they are completed
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