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Chipmunk

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Does anyone know who makes this cabinet? It is galvanized steel, 31 inches wide, 60 inches high and 27 inches deep. Both front and back are the same with two drawers on the bottom portion and two doors that open outward. The interior is all galvanized steel peg board. The guy I bought it from told me that it was for jewelry stores when they take their inventory off the shelves for the evening. The jeweler would wheel this 300 pound cabinet around the store filling it with his inventory then lock each door and drawer then push the entire cabinet into the safe/vault. I have no idea if that’s true or not, but it sound plausible.

Any way I have scoured every inch of this cabinet, including the underside and can find no manufacturers plate or name anywhere. I know it’s not one of a kind nor custom made.

I bought it to use as a tool chest, it really wheels easily as all four wheels swivel and lock. It took four of us to load and unload during a rain storm. I didn’t even cover it from the rain for the 60 miles home since it’s galvanized.





 
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Holy ****! Thats awesome! Ive never seen anything like it. Be sure to take pics when you tool it up!!
 

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That is pretty sweet. Never seen anything like it either. Might be worth stopping in at your local jeweler with a photo and asking what they know.
 

Tim Kennedy

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Chipmunk: Guy had the exact same cabinet advertised on the Pittsburgh, PA craigslist about4 months ago - asking price was $1500 [if I remember correctly] Not sure if it sold or not.
 

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IIRC I've seen some DJ's use very similar setups for moving expensive electronic equipment for portable gigs. I'm trying to imagine how the jewelers would use the metal peg board. Purchase price?
 
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I found this one on the Fargo Craigs list and paid $150.00. Since there were no keys and the local locksmith says he can’t make a key for it I’m going to replace all 8 locks for $5.50 each.
 

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I found this one on the Fargo Craigs list and paid $150.00. Since there were no keys and the local locksmith says he can’t make a key for it I’m going to replace all 8 locks for $5.50 each.

Solution . . . . . Go find a BETTER locksmith !!
 
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Chipmunk

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I'm thinking that's custom fabbed by a sheet metal shop.

Any thing is possible, but I know there is more than one. And that doesn’t explain why there would be one in Fargo North Dakota and another in Pennsylvania. Unless the sheet metal shop had a national reputation.
 

powerwagon63

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The Hutterites around here (northeast South Dakota) make units very similar to yours. They sell them through Fastenal. They are very nicely made.

Hutterites are a religious group that live in communes, in South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Montana, and parts of Canada. They have lots of agricultural operations but also manufacture stuff like this cabinet.

Marc in SD
 
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Chipmunk

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The Hutterites around here (northeast South Dakota) make units very similar to yours. They sell them through Fastenal. They are very nicely made.

Hutterites are a religious group that live in communes, in South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Montana, and parts of Canada. They have lots of agricultural operations but also manufacture stuff like this cabinet.

Marc in SD

Yeah, I bought a storage (garden) shed from the bunch in Milbank. Nice people but crazier than hell.
The guy who delivered my shed wanted to get married so the church elders found him a wife in Pennsylvania from a similar group.
 

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It reminds me of musical equipment transport. The stuff you see people rolling around at the concerts?

Road cases are made from plywood with aluminium extrusions for the corners and edges. The plywood normally has a veneer facing on it, usually a coloured plastic layer sometimes it is a 24 gauge aluminium sheet. I own examples of both types and have even been known to make them for myself.
 
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