[Shop-talk] Craftsman toolboxes?

[John Miller]

On 8/31/2010 9:24 AM, Vincent Marshall wrote:
> I also have one of these harbor freight cabinets.  I use it as a second tool
> chest for lathe tooling, drill bits, measuring instruments, and so forth.

They're not mobile, but I bought six Vidmar roller-drawer cabinets out 
of the electronics shop at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard when the last 
remnants were being auctioned off six or seven years ago.

They're about 30W x 25D x 60H, most of mine have 11 drawers in combos of 
3-5in deep.  I think I bought them in lots of 2-3 for about $225 a 
cabinet IIRC.

These were built during the Nixon Administration (got a friend who's 
into old musical stuff who was quite happy to take all the 
individually-wrapped old resistors, capacitors, and etc. that came out 
of the bottom of them, the SPS-40 radars may be gone but the Marshall 
amps live on...) and were covered in a fair bit of crud but they cleaned 
up nicely, and Stanley Vidmar's still got dividers and etc. that will fit.

The worst part is that I've only got three of them filled and properly 
organized so far, I'm about to move all the electrical terminals and 
tools into four drawers in another one over the next couple of nights...

John.