Spent my pension and a bit more!

WIZZO · Jul 20, 2015

For a long while I've wanted a steel multi drawer tool cabinet. Looked at lots on line and at tool stores; most are terrible quality with just slider drawer rails, cheap fixed castors and no rubber drawer liners; and only 18" or 20" wide.

Saw these semi-pro units in the local store of national car parts & tools company. Mainly deeper depth drawers, ball bearing drawer runners, bigger swiveling castors and rubber drawer liners. Retail price is $600, they were on offer this week at $450 the pair.

Another customer in there had a "trade discount card" and offered to let me to use it.
The special trade price was $370 for the pair.

Typing error - FINAL PRICE WAS $270

I gave the guy a $20 note for allowing me to use his trade card.

It was too good a deal to refuse - no money left in my wallet now

donjr · Jul 20, 2015

I just bought one a few weeks ago because they were on sale- but mine is a bit bigger and cost close to $800. I had a new set of gear wrenches on the work table that disappeared, and it ticked me off. That, and I have so many tools that I really needed some one place to put them so I could find some once in a while. SO I got the tool box, pretty well cleaned up around the shop, and royally pizzed off my G-son, because he doesn't have a key to the box. It's really kind of funny- those gear wrenches mysteriously turned up behind some things on a tool box about ten feet from the work table about a week later....

Billy NY · Jul 20, 2015

Yeah but you can certainly put a lot of tools in one of these, well worth it. My craftsman is of a similar configuration and its full, just the top box alone is a boat anchor in weight, I need 2 people to move it safely, though I have taken it off myself, when full its just heavy. I had it for years and never used it, finally I decided to gather all my tools and get things organized, so much better, I'd be lost without it and need to grab another off CL, see them very reasonable at times, some like new.

old popper · Jul 20, 2015

That is NICE! Ship it on over to Iowa and I'll store it for you................

FBH44 · Jul 20, 2015

Never did like the ball=bearing ones, the drawers bounce back open when you close them.

MARK ROBKE · Jul 20, 2015

Wizzo,do you the 'premium' name brands,like Snap On,or Mac Tools,like we have here in the U.S.?Mark

CenTex Farmall · Jul 20, 2015

"It was too good a deal to refuse - no money left in my wallet now

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With inflation the way it is your're probably better off trading the paper for steel!

WIZZO · Jul 20, 2015

(quoted from post at 13:50:03 07/20/15) Wizzo,do you the 'premium' name brands,like Snap On,or Mac Tools,like we have here in the U.S.?Mark

There are high quality brands like Snap On - very very expensive, but great for mechanics.

WIZZO · Jul 20, 2015

I made a typing error the final price i paid was

$270

phil_n · Jul 20, 2015

Hey WIZZO, does Halfords still sell rebuild kits for alternators?

WIZZO · Jul 21, 2015

(quoted from post at 20:36:08 07/20/15) Hey WIZZO, does Halfords still sell rebuild kits for alternators?

Halfords have developed into a major national store for push bikes, radios/cd's/sat-navs and accesories like car bulbs, hand tools, wipers and oil etc. They sell a lot of those "coffins" to carry extra stuff and bike racks to fit onto car roof.

The larger stores do offer car servicing. I don't know if they do the alternator service.

They are known to be expensive, this tool box is about the only thing I've purchased off them, I go to the "trade type" outlets for my stuff. Last year I wanted a Garmin sat-nav, Halfords were a lot more expensive than other stores.

phil_n · Jul 21, 2015

When I lived in Weymouth in the '80's (met my wife there) Halfords was the go-to place for car parts and fairly reasonable at the time. They carried more auto DIY stuff than anyone over here (Canada).

Spent my pension and a bit more!

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