[Shop-talk] Craftsman toolboxes?

[David Scheidt]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Wayne <wmc_st at xxiii.com> wrote:
>>> 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,
>
> Interesting bit of trivia -- There's a company Waterloo Industries
> www.waterlooindustries.com that I am told OEMs the Sears boxes, and
probably
> the Kobalt too. B Thet sell boxes under their own name, but it's pretty
rare
> to find them; B when I have they're like 2X the price of the same Sears
one.
>

The other American maker of toolboxes is Kennedy.   Sold through
industrial suppliers (Grainger, Mcmaster, etc. ).  Nice stuff.
Spendy, though.

>



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