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For many years I've had a three-tier Craftsman tool chest which served me well for years. However, over time I have accumulated more and more tools and as a result had out grown the Craftsman tool chest. So, yesterday I purchased a new Husky tool chest from Home Depot. This thing has tons more storage space and I'm able to separate the tools out much better within the drawers. Here's a pic of the new tool chest, alongside my old Craftsman. The Craftsman I just gave to a good friend who, over the years, has allowed me to borrow his pickup truck more times than I can remember. He didn't have a chest like this, so he was very happy to get this at no charge.

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Nice!
 

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There's room for a dwarf assistant in the lower right-hand compartment!
 

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And you can't even see the engine,headllghts,or taillights.
 

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I'm still using the Craftsman 3 drawer that I bought about 50 years ago, all filled with original tools, mostly SK, Snap-On, Craftsman, Dunlop, Irwin wooden handled screwdrivers, ancient simple torque wrench, even older ring compressor that I'll never use, tap and die sets, etc., etc. I dread moving to a smaller condo or apartment.
 

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Good for you, Basil! No more digging thru tools you don't want, to find the one you do. There are three Snap-On boxes here. One main box referred to as the "Red Amana" and two roll cabs side by side to make a good workbench on top.

I try to keep everything in a specific spot, a habit so ingrained that when I last moved the big one and the drawers containing screwdrivers and files were juxtaposed by 'helpful' friends, every time I went for a screwstick I'd open the one containing the files first... I attempted to adapt but it bugged me so much I had to put them back into their "proper" respective positions.

pd said:
I dread moving to a smaller condo or apartment.


In total sympathy here! I believe that'd be impossible in my case.


 

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Looks great! Now is that one of the fancy schmancy ones with fridge and bluetooth and USB etc?
 
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Oh how I hate people with tidy garages :eagerness:

Don't worry, you won't hate me for long. I usually do an annual garage cleaning and it looks great - for a while. It won't take long before it looks like a tornado went through.
 
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So now you can buy even more tools. Hmm, I wonder how long it will be before you start wishing you had kept the old Craftsman stack too.
 

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Very nice!! Enjoy it, and like already said, I presume you will miss the old tool chest. Storage as a way of filling up!
 

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Good box, when i finally retire and settle down im going to use a bunch of the harbor freighht 70 inch long boxes as a wall type tool storage and put a good top the length of them.
 

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Good box, when i finally retire and settle down im going to use a bunch of the harbor freighht 70 inch long boxes as a wall type tool storage and put a good top the length of them.

That's what I've done with the two Snap-On KR657B cabs, handles removed, plywood across the two. Each is 33" wide, 24" deep:

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In a one car garage, it works well.

Now Basil has to start adding "personal" touches:

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