Tool Chest Add-ons

[Jer]

I hate moving....have I said that yet? It's 10:30 PM and I'm taking a break....should be sleeping, but instead I'm probably going to be at it until 1 or 2.

HOWEVER...the bride just gave me a reward for all the hard work I've been doing (get your minds out of the gutter)...as she was going out the door on her way to work, she says, completely out of the blue:

"Jer, you've been busting your hump on this move...when you get done I think you should go ahead and get those TWO sideboxes you want for your toolbox...my treat!"

All of a sudden, I'm feeling much better! These are two Craftsman add-ons I've been drooling over for almost a year. They will hang on each end of my 42" wide Triple Stacker (Ball Bearing) cabinet/intermediate/chest setup that she bought me for my birthday last year.

I just ordered them online--hey, she said GET them after I'm done, I'm only ORDERING them before I'm done--here's a pic from the website, and when they get to the new place (and I get 'em hung on) I'll post some pics of the entire rig:

The left one has the work surface, and the right one is more of a locker type box...coat hook, couple of shelves, etc. It's going to take a forklift to drag the thing around...it's already taller than I am (6-1) with the chest lid closed, and with these two added on, it's going to end up being about 7 feet wide, I'm thinkin!!

Aah....life is good!! (Needless to say, I treat this woman very, very well, but I am so worth it!!)

I have 52 years worth of tools that I've accumulated, and if I can get 3 or 4 more setups like this, I'll finally have all of them in real tool boxes!!

[Deleted]

Looking good Jer. She sounds like a keeper. My tool boxes are yard sale specials.

[Admin]

[Jer]

bob said:

Looking good Jer. She sounds like a keeper. My tool boxes are yard sale specials.

:-XI've never really owned a really nice toolbox setup, Bob...always wanted one...but like you I've had a various assortment of old little tool boxes, small "tote" duffles, cardboard boxes, and plastic (and even wood!) milk crates.

I guess that's why I'm so jazzed and wanted to share my enthusiasm...and yea, she's probably a keeper!

~Jer~

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Heres my junkers at work. Never have felt compelled to buy a $30k box. Would rather have $27.5k in Charger parts and $2.5k in boxes.

Bought the small middle one as a table for my laptop. Keep a set of speakers in it so I can listen to cds too.

[Charger74 (Brent)]

Cool Jer. I need to get a box someday as well. Of course that will have to come after I get rid of the crappy shelving unit in my garage.

[Jer]

tom said:

Heres my junkers at work. Never have felt compelled to buy a $30k box. Would rather have $27.5k in Charger parts and $2.5k in boxes.

Bought the small middle one as a table for my laptop. Keep a set of speakers in it so I can listen to cds too.

Tom, I think my bottom cabinet and top chest are just like the box of yours on the left, except for mine being the black ones...yours looks like a 42 incher, anyway. And while I was at it I got the intermediate single drawer for all my 3/8 ratchets and sockets.

Hey, I'm with you on the 30K boxes....I waited until everything was on sale last year before "asking" the bride for the boxes...I think I got all 3 pieces for less than 1300 bucks, if memory serves me correctly. The new ones are around 400 each (one's a little less, one's a little more), but in the end "I" will only have spent 2100 or so....and that's 300 more than I paid for the Charger!

But I bet I END UP spending a couple more dollars on the car than on tool boxes...

I like the middle tool box for laptop idea...mine hangs out on top of the brides clothes dryer !!

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Jer, mine are the 42 inch units also.

I bought one after turning wrenches for a year, then picked up a second unit used, off of a tool truck about a year later.

I think I paid about $900 (new-on sale) for one combo that did not have BB drawers and $450 for the used combo with BB drawers.

[Jer]

Okay Tom, all this tool stuff is getting me way excited.
I couldn't stand it, so I snapped a picture of my combo...if you can pick it out of the mess of boxes and crates in the garage!

The white magnetic tags on each drawer are temporary...the plan is to use my new label maker on silver tape (labels)...I'll probably get around to that about the 1st....of Neveruary!

It's gonna be way way cool when I get the new add-ons attached...maybe I'll use the work surface on the new one for my laptop...

Then I'll be just like Tom!

[csrieker]

nice Jer, very nice, my fiancee got me two big too chest for xmas, one is a double stacked 6 drawer with 1 cabinet built by staney, the other is a triple stacked craftsman with ball bearings and, but it aint as big as yours(wide)