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Tourrider, well done. I also replaced two 40 yr old Sears tool box's last week. Great discounts at our local store. 1/2 off. Then I spent the week reorg the tools, cleaning up the box's and re labeling the drawers. Long over due. Very satisfying. BTW, rummer is, Sears will re org. New management team. A number of the people in our store say they are staying to see. Just think how shrewd Harbor Freight is. They see the change in competition, Sears OSH etc. So they adjust their business model to move away from all low end quality and price and now offer some good quality choices. Can still get the "use it once" cheap stuff but now they get the customer who wants quality for value. Our store was packed this weekend.
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Well this is always an alternative-------Hell with a new garage and everything---go for it!!! LOL
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Jay
Warranties are good don’t get me wrong. They just don’t do the warranty in store. Gotta mail or drive aways to exchange items
I Love my 18 Ram 2500HD 4x4 CC
Blue Streak Pearl off-road
I too have a craftsman. First tool box I ever bought in 1992. Dropped the top chest and wrecked it, but the bottom is still good.hard to pass up the one I use now though. Cost me 900 cdn top and bottom when it was discontinued and a really solid box. The newer version is way more money and a cheaper built box.My ole' Red, the box on the right is 42 years old. I bought it when I was eighteen and went to work as a mechanic for an excavating company, and side work for local farmers. The box is tired. I got the cheap black one to take some load of old red. Got what I paided for. I though I could get rid of the two for the new one. Don't know what I was smoking. Moved stuff the the new box, and then filled the old ones with all the stuff kicking around the rest of the garage.
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Bought the nifty Harbor Freight Rubber glove dispenser and paper towel holder.
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Still got my 42 year old electronic tuning tools Timing light and Dwell meter for the old MOPAR Muscle.
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I have been eyeballing those boxes for a while now and have been real interested in checking them out. Now I think I'm going to have to! I've been wanting a real long bottom box for long timeCertainly not going to pooh pooh anyone's new toolbox but want to add that if you have a Harbor Freight tool store near you the US General box they sell is hard to beat for the money. I have a large craftsman box I purchased maybe 8-10 years ago to replace a smaller craftsman box I had. Shortly after buying my box I was introduced to the US General by a friend and I immediately had buyers remorse. The only way I felt sort of OK about my craftsman purchase was the fact I got it all on sale and saved a few hundred dollars. Hands down the US General is a better built box though.
As for Craftsman going to China for manufacturing that's a shame. I wised up quickly when they started to switch over to china made maybe 5 or 6 years ago and bought a couple of combination wrench sets and ratcheting box end wrench sets that were still USA made. This way I have some duplicates for the lost or broken stuff down the road. Also, over the years I purchased Snap On for my most used frequently used tools. I'm not drinking any Snap On cool-aid cause the tools are damn expensive but they are nice tools.
I have been eyeballing those boxes for a while now and have been real interested in checking them out. Now I think I'm going to have to! I've been wanting a real long bottom box for long time
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Yeah for sure! I get the magazines mailed to me all the time and those are always on the front page, have been meaning to check them out for like a year or so just never have but now I think I'm going to. HF has some real gems mixed in with the junk that are awesome dealsWhats nice is they offer them in different colors too. Red, orange, blue, lime green and I think yellow.
It's been many years since I've been paid for wrenching.And when people see that box they think your a top notch mechanic Lol