^This too. Tool truck drivers often repo complete boxes from incompetent mechanics and have zero use for them since their goal is selling new tools and equipment. Contact your local tool truck guys (and have money because the key to real bargains is working capital).
The one in your pic, those boxes are so terrible unless you’re only going to put like 50lbs total in there. Drop an extra $200 and get something that will last 10 years.
If you DIY it, I don’t know how far ahead you will be unless you have a full sheetmetal shop at your disposal. I’d imagine the slides for the drawers are going to cost at least 1/3 the price of a brand new box, then add the other handles and hinges and you’re at like 50% before getting sheet metal. They need a good durable paint job (powdercoat?) too if you don’t want the drawers to rust out in a year.
>They need a good durable paint job (powdercoat?) too if you don’t want the drawers to rust out in a year. >half assed and running spraypaint doesn't protect steel in the slightest and steel also has a 1 year shelf life before crumbling to dust
DIY a good bench to work on. You cannot buy a good built bench without spending crazy money on one. The get some used kitchen cabinets for more storage. Then a good USA made vise and you are all set.
These tool chests are overpriced garbage. Some guy at work bought a fap off one and it cost him over 1000$ lmao.
Pick up a couple free/cheap filing cabinets and organize your tools to take advantage of the deeper drawers. If you want something more fancy than that, get a welder
>putting yourself in debt to buy fap off $3000 tool cabinet, $500 ratchet and $1000 leakdown tester
at least I don't have negative net worth, onions Black person
>at least I don't have negative net worth
Of course
On McDonalds wages, $1000 for something you will have the rest of your life is just not in the cards.
You can just hop into the dumpster and be proud of it!
my 72" matco rollcab was $1800
I could not have built it for that.
However, what I do eventually want to DIY with it is removing the casters and mounting it to a chassis with golf cart tires on it to make a DIY pitbox setup.
Check out large scaffolding casters or use solid tires because small pneumatic tires tend to be trash (golf cart tires excepted).
Also check out how scaffolding casters mount. Ability to push equipment sideways, lock casters with pin as desired etc are great assets for rolling boxes.
Don't mount any casters to your tool box directly.
Do fab an angle steel frame then mount to that and if you striked something with a wheel (aviation boxes are frequently towed throughout a shift on the flightline) you don't trash the box itself.
I've been wanting one of these rolling tool carts for years now and my conclusion has been that they're the most consistently overpriced piece of kit in the average hardware store. For example, even when Canadian Tire has a half-off sale, they still want like $300 leaf bucks for the basic unit. $300 bucks for a set of drawers and some casters. That's fricking ridiculous no matter how you slice it. So I keep my tools in bags and just carry them. It's gay but it works for my purposes, and the price is right.
>they're the most consistently overpriced piece of kit in the average hardware store
Go look up how much drawer slides, heavy duty casters, and 100lbs of sheet metal costs.
Not to mention the labor of bending and welding and painting them.
Drawer slides are free in my area since people throw them away with old cabinets. You're not getting heavy duty casters with an El Cheapo model. And there's nowhere near 100 pounds of anything in them. Meanwhile, let's look at something like a chop saw: lots of injection molded and machined parts, electronics, fancy blade materials, all of which has to work properly or somebody could get badly injured. Sale price? $200. Again, there is NO valid reason for a simple cabinet to cost that much. The retailers are just making their yacht profits with these things. Meanwhile, I can just throw my tools in those reusable shopping bags that people give away for free, and then toss them all in a free shopping cart if I need to use a whole bunch of them. Total cost, zero, and while it's ghetto as frick it still works fine for home handyman use.
>Drawer slides are free in my area since people throw them away with old cabinets
Are they rated for 100lbs with ball bearings like a toolbox?
>You're not getting heavy duty casters with an El Cheapo model.
You arent paying $300 for an el cheapo model either
>And there's nowhere near 100 pounds of anything in them
The curb weight of my harbor freight tool chest toolbox which cost me $279 USD is 141lbs
>let's look at something like a chop saw
Cheap stamped sheet metal base, cheap cast arm, and a cheap motor strapped onto it
And they cost $100, which seems about right
>Again, there is NO valid reason for a simple cabinet to cost that much
Sure, if you have no clue how much real life material costs, labor costs, shipping and storage of something over 100 lbs and 5 feet tall entails sure.
> The retailers are just making their yacht profits with these things.
Retailers love to undercut their competitors, sometimes even with loss leaders to get them into the store.
Its just a coincidence that they dont EVER do that with the toolchest right? The big expensive thing that doesnt sell super quick and is a burden to keep in stock, and would sell like hotcakes if you set them as a loss leader.
>Meanwhile, I can just throw my tools in those reusable shopping bags that people give away for free, and then toss them all in a free shopping cart if I need to use a whole bunch of them. Total cost, zero, and while it's ghetto as frick it still works fine for home handyman use.
Holy kek
I thought you were talking about toolbags, but fricking grocery bags?
Get a job homosexual
Being NEET isnt actually that fun
A true PrepHoleer would make it out of 1/4" AR500 plate
If you have to ask, buy since you don't have the equipment to do it right and the goal of (non-idiotic) DIY is cost-effective use of your time.
You could have a machine shop and a kiln to make your own spark plugs but that would also be stupid.
Buy used.
^This too. Tool truck drivers often repo complete boxes from incompetent mechanics and have zero use for them since their goal is selling new tools and equipment. Contact your local tool truck guys (and have money because the key to real bargains is working capital).
The one in your pic, those boxes are so terrible unless you’re only going to put like 50lbs total in there. Drop an extra $200 and get something that will last 10 years.
If you DIY it, I don’t know how far ahead you will be unless you have a full sheetmetal shop at your disposal. I’d imagine the slides for the drawers are going to cost at least 1/3 the price of a brand new box, then add the other handles and hinges and you’re at like 50% before getting sheet metal. They need a good durable paint job (powdercoat?) too if you don’t want the drawers to rust out in a year.
>They need a good durable paint job (powdercoat?) too if you don’t want the drawers to rust out in a year.
>half assed and running spraypaint doesn't protect steel in the slightest and steel also has a 1 year shelf life before crumbling to dust
DIY a good bench to work on. You cannot buy a good built bench without spending crazy money on one. The get some used kitchen cabinets for more storage. Then a good USA made vise and you are all set.
These tool chests are overpriced garbage. Some guy at work bought a fap off one and it cost him over 1000$ lmao.
Pick up a couple free/cheap filing cabinets and organize your tools to take advantage of the deeper drawers. If you want something more fancy than that, get a welder
>being this poor
>putting yourself in debt to buy fap off $3000 tool cabinet, $500 ratchet and $1000 leakdown tester
at least I don't have negative net worth, onions Black person
>at least I don't have negative net worth
Of course
On McDonalds wages, $1000 for something you will have the rest of your life is just not in the cards.
You can just hop into the dumpster and be proud of it!
my 72" matco rollcab was $1800
I could not have built it for that.
However, what I do eventually want to DIY with it is removing the casters and mounting it to a chassis with golf cart tires on it to make a DIY pitbox setup.
Check out large scaffolding casters or use solid tires because small pneumatic tires tend to be trash (golf cart tires excepted).
Also check out how scaffolding casters mount. Ability to push equipment sideways, lock casters with pin as desired etc are great assets for rolling boxes.
Don't mount any casters to your tool box directly.
Do fab an angle steel frame then mount to that and if you striked something with a wheel (aviation boxes are frequently towed throughout a shift on the flightline) you don't trash the box itself.
>These tool chests are overpriced garbage.
being this poor and raging this hard.
>You cannot buy a good built bench without spending crazy money on one.
You can definitely find a used bench that's lower than the price of the lumber used to build it.
cool looking organ, bro
I've been wanting one of these rolling tool carts for years now and my conclusion has been that they're the most consistently overpriced piece of kit in the average hardware store. For example, even when Canadian Tire has a half-off sale, they still want like $300 leaf bucks for the basic unit. $300 bucks for a set of drawers and some casters. That's fricking ridiculous no matter how you slice it. So I keep my tools in bags and just carry them. It's gay but it works for my purposes, and the price is right.
>they're the most consistently overpriced piece of kit in the average hardware store
Go look up how much drawer slides, heavy duty casters, and 100lbs of sheet metal costs.
Not to mention the labor of bending and welding and painting them.
Drawer slides are free in my area since people throw them away with old cabinets. You're not getting heavy duty casters with an El Cheapo model. And there's nowhere near 100 pounds of anything in them. Meanwhile, let's look at something like a chop saw: lots of injection molded and machined parts, electronics, fancy blade materials, all of which has to work properly or somebody could get badly injured. Sale price? $200. Again, there is NO valid reason for a simple cabinet to cost that much. The retailers are just making their yacht profits with these things. Meanwhile, I can just throw my tools in those reusable shopping bags that people give away for free, and then toss them all in a free shopping cart if I need to use a whole bunch of them. Total cost, zero, and while it's ghetto as frick it still works fine for home handyman use.
>Drawer slides are free in my area since people throw them away with old cabinets
Are they rated for 100lbs with ball bearings like a toolbox?
>You're not getting heavy duty casters with an El Cheapo model.
You arent paying $300 for an el cheapo model either
>And there's nowhere near 100 pounds of anything in them
The curb weight of my harbor freight tool chest toolbox which cost me $279 USD is 141lbs
>let's look at something like a chop saw
Cheap stamped sheet metal base, cheap cast arm, and a cheap motor strapped onto it
And they cost $100, which seems about right
>Again, there is NO valid reason for a simple cabinet to cost that much
Sure, if you have no clue how much real life material costs, labor costs, shipping and storage of something over 100 lbs and 5 feet tall entails sure.
> The retailers are just making their yacht profits with these things.
Retailers love to undercut their competitors, sometimes even with loss leaders to get them into the store.
Its just a coincidence that they dont EVER do that with the toolchest right? The big expensive thing that doesnt sell super quick and is a burden to keep in stock, and would sell like hotcakes if you set them as a loss leader.
>Meanwhile, I can just throw my tools in those reusable shopping bags that people give away for free, and then toss them all in a free shopping cart if I need to use a whole bunch of them. Total cost, zero, and while it's ghetto as frick it still works fine for home handyman use.
Holy kek
I thought you were talking about toolbags, but fricking grocery bags?
Get a job homosexual
Being NEET isnt actually that fun
Buy a used and abused one for cheap and repair it/sticker bomb it if you must.
diy would cost more than buying one.
You should make it yourself. I'm sure you have the skills tools and materials to do so. I made picrel in two days.
Sick build, that looks extremely good. Stickers are super cringe but I can forgive you for that,