Looking to expand my tools storage capacity. My current shop is 150' from the driveway(10'x8' garden shed, on a rised platform, so packed to tools the floor can barely hold the weight, mixed use, so anything from electrical, to woodworking to fabrication to automotive tools), so it's literally 1000 trips to get and put away tools any time I'm working on something. Current toolbox, in that shed, is a Craftsman Griplatch of some sort I picked up used($75, including a second shallow top box I sold to my mother), with a shallower intermediate chest I picked up for $5.) I also have several plywood drawer boxes I've built over the years. I've got about 4'x5' of floor space in the shed.
I'm thinking to kill 2 birds with 1 purchase, and am thinking of picking up one of the 5 drawer carts, and a set full set of the 8" pneumatic casters, and adapting the cart for them. Not seeing anything online about anyone having done so, although I have seen a video of a 1 drawer cart being set up with them. Don't want to spend ~$260(~$199 for the cart on sale this month + ~$60 for the wheels) , just to find it doesn't work, as the cart is stock form will be useless to my needs. Biggest concern is that with the swivel casters will swing too far inboard, resulting it the cart wanting to tip to that end.
This cart will not be stored in the shed, but rather in my fathers garage, about 50' closer to the driveway. No space to work on vehicles in that garage, as it's too crammed with junk and mostly only 12' wide, with walls piles 4-6' out on each side. I think rough dimensions 12 24'x~40'. We haven't had electric out there in ~20 years. I just rewired my father/my portion of it for lights and outlets, although he needs to figure out where the sub panel is going to be. That's a debate in and of itself as my mother's section of the garage is where it was in the past, and it would be easiest to put it again, but she doesn't want it there. Garage is build on top of an older barn foundation and to put it where it was, with buried cable, means I break out about 3' of old concrete. Anywhere else and I'd breaking up 10'+ of old concrete to get the wires into the building.
Secondary intention of this is to see if he's interested in something like it, as I may buy him one for Christmas. He currently has no tool chest of any sort, relying on a number of small boxes and a couple boards with nails overflowing with a completely mismatched set of random tools. He's totally not a car person, but he does 90%+ of his own repairs and I do all of mine, all in the aforementioned driveway.
I'm thinking to kill 2 birds with 1 purchase, and am thinking of picking up one of the 5 drawer carts, and a set full set of the 8" pneumatic casters, and adapting the cart for them. Not seeing anything online about anyone having done so, although I have seen a video of a 1 drawer cart being set up with them. Don't want to spend ~$260(~$199 for the cart on sale this month + ~$60 for the wheels) , just to find it doesn't work, as the cart is stock form will be useless to my needs. Biggest concern is that with the swivel casters will swing too far inboard, resulting it the cart wanting to tip to that end.
This cart will not be stored in the shed, but rather in my fathers garage, about 50' closer to the driveway. No space to work on vehicles in that garage, as it's too crammed with junk and mostly only 12' wide, with walls piles 4-6' out on each side. I think rough dimensions 12 24'x~40'. We haven't had electric out there in ~20 years. I just rewired my father/my portion of it for lights and outlets, although he needs to figure out where the sub panel is going to be. That's a debate in and of itself as my mother's section of the garage is where it was in the past, and it would be easiest to put it again, but she doesn't want it there. Garage is build on top of an older barn foundation and to put it where it was, with buried cable, means I break out about 3' of old concrete. Anywhere else and I'd breaking up 10'+ of old concrete to get the wires into the building.
Secondary intention of this is to see if he's interested in something like it, as I may buy him one for Christmas. He currently has no tool chest of any sort, relying on a number of small boxes and a couple boards with nails overflowing with a completely mismatched set of random tools. He's totally not a car person, but he does 90%+ of his own repairs and I do all of mine, all in the aforementioned driveway.
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