Surplus Medical Carts for Tools?

[honcho]

The last few months I have been spending too much time in hospital / nursing home with a family member and have been eyeing the medical carts thinking about them for possible tool storage. They certainly look heavy duty and some of them have nice locking mechanisms. I haven't seen too much in stainless so the big downside is that most of them are white or blue. I figure that there are likely plenty of surplus ones in the marketplace and they could be another alternative for tool storage.

In the reverse, last year I bought a very low end Craftsman rolling 26" chest that had been used for a medical office.

Thoughts? Anyone here using a medical cart for our kind of tools?

 

[kythri]

I work IS for a hospital/healthcare organization.

We have an old MacBick cart at work that we use for tools, bits & bobs. Inherited it from one of the pharmacies, I think.

Interestingly, I see a lot of Craftsman 26" rollers in a bunch of different locations around the various sites.

 

[zkling]

Most of the metal ones are made by the large tool box companies, Waterloo being a big medical box/cart supplier. On the plus side they are usually very clean and have very smooth casters.

 

[1990 Grand Wag]

I have a surplus med cart that was made by MMP. It was built heavy duty. Didn't need it, but the price was right! The only thing that surprised me was it is mostly constructed out of aluminum.

 

[scw1991]

I was in a hospital a few months back visiting a relative. Craftsman tool cabinets all over the place that had been a bit customized to hold oxygen bottles....

 

[LEVE]

I use to have two med-carts that were lockable and had lots of drawers. After a couple of weeks using them I gave them away. I found the drawers weren't set up for tools. I was keeping larger items in them and the space the took up was better used. In retrospect, the casters on the carts were great... they rolled easily.

 

[bl00]

Here's a Waterloo I picked up a few weeks ago. After extensive hosing with antibacterial spray and then bleach solution it's going to hold my Benchmaster mill project. I think I'm going to have to paint it though. The light blue doesn't do it for me.

 

[warmpancakes]

buddy has 6 or 7 stainless cabinets from a hospital, 100% stainless so they could be steralized built like a tank,

 

[LordPsychon]

I see a lot of Craftsman and US General boxes in the OR where I work some of the time, not too many "pure" medical carts where I'm at I'm afraid.

 

[Andrew LB]

Excellent storage ideas. I'd love to get my hands on a 100% stainless steel cabinet. I may have to hit up a friend of the family who is the head Doc/administrator at a hospital not far from me.

A couple years ago he gave me some surgical scalpels that I use for all sorts of projects. They make Xacto blades feel like a butter knife they're so darn sharp. That's also the downside because if you are careless and touch that blade to your finger, you wont even feel the contact. I had one sitting on my work bench half covered in saw dust, and I wiped aside the shavings only to notice blood everywhere. Cut the tip of my finger clear to the bone. At least the cut was so clean that it healed really quick (with a few stitches).

 

[LordPsychon]

Excellent storage ideas. I'd love to get my hands on a 100% stainless steel cabinet. I may have to hit up a friend of the family who is the head Doc/administrator at a hospital not far from me.

A couple years ago he gave me some surgical scalpels that I use for all sorts of projects. They make Xacto blades feel like a butter knife they're so darn sharp. That's also the downside because if you are careless and touch that blade to your finger, you wont even feel the contact. I had one sitting on my work bench half covered in saw dust, and I wiped aside the shavings only to notice blood everywhere. Cut the tip of my finger clear to the bone. At least the cut was so clean that it healed really quick (with a few stitches).

Must have been a #11 blade (standard opening blade for surgeons) - wicked and very sharp but also incredibly effective.

 

[Jarhead0408]

Here's a Waterloo I picked up a few weeks ago. After extensive hosing with antibacterial spray and then bleach solution it's going to hold my Benchmaster mill project. I think I'm going to have to paint it though. The light blue doesn't do it for me.

HOLY COW man!

That vise is MASSIVE!

 

[1990 Grand Wag]

Here's a Waterloo I picked up a few weeks ago. After extensive hosing with antibacterial spray and then bleach solution it's going to hold my Benchmaster mill project. I think I'm going to have to paint it though. The light blue doesn't do it for me.

Yep, thought about going to Annapolis to pick that one up myself!