This thread has gone on and on, and I've tried to be quiet, but the mention
of a Labor Day sale at Sears and all the moaning about Sears' crap toolboxes
prompted me to throw this in.
Last Christmas at the Sears Black Friday sale Craftsman's Club members were
offered a 14-drawer (all full-width, no cut-in-half drawers where one counts
as two) combo for $289 - basically $100 per piece. The intermediate cabinet
is usually at least that on sale, and the other parts are far higher on a
good sale. Rolling base, intermediate cabinet, and top cabinet. All
drawers, no open compartment on the bottom. The upper two boxes are the
shallower (12" deep ?) ones - not the better 18", and the set has Quiet
Glide slides, not Ball Bearing which I realize every real man absolutely
must have. For $289 I bought them to replace my shorter, 2-piece set of
Craftsman boxes from 1978, which will now go to the airport.
I've had no problem with the standard slides on my old ones, and these Quiet
Glides are smother. As far as I can see, the steel is the same thickness
and the quality is the same as my old ones. Were I using this stuff daily
to make a living, it'd be different, but the standard slides have been fine
for 32 years, and these are better. And I didn't have to pay the Snap-Off
man 10 times as much. I overload some drawers and they open just fine,
though I don't keep any of them filled with concrete or slabs of 1" plate
steel.
For my money, these are pretty nice. And they look just like the Waterloos
I've seen in recent years, so I think this line at least is still made by
them.
Karl
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Craftsman toolboxes?
There was an advertisement in our newspaper this morning for a Labor Day
sale at Sears outlet. The interesting things in there were an angle grinder
for $29.99 (50% off), and 40% off all garage and tool storage (rolling
toolboxes!).
> I'm buying a friend some toolboxes for her birthday. Probably a
> roll-away and a 7 drawer top box. Poking around the Sears store I see
> lots of crap, and a few models that look decent but could be
> decent-looking crap. Anyone bought Craftsman recently that can comment on
good models?
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