New tool box project

David Bryant · Sep 8, 2024

wow, beautiful tool boxes

Grimracer · Sep 9, 2024

Mike, your talent is showing again...

nice work!

Tom_Handley · Sep 9, 2024

Nice but looks very heavy. Do you have a trolley for it because my bad back aches just thinking about lifting stuff.

Mike Hughes · Sep 9, 2024

It came in at 5lbs. I think the plastic one I was using is about 2 lbs. It does all the things I want it to do. I am not sure where all of you are hauling your tool boxes to. Goes from bench to trailer, then to pit table. All of about 30 ft total. If I cant haul it that far then it is time to shoot me. My gas boats are heavier and a lot larger. You never see any one saying how heavy they are.........
Mike

Tom_Handley · Sep 9, 2024

You forgot the weight of everything in it...
Trailer makes it easier but my Superkart toolbox is a similar size and it'd weigh 40lbs easily. Even lifting it in and out of the trailer is a pain.
Our local pond, the council blocked off the road so there is a 500m walk from the nearest car park.

Any reason you didn't mitre the corners? Any why such thick ply?

Tom_Handley · Sep 9, 2024

Also I would suggest you could do away with these solid pieces of timber and run the drawers on the case sides, there is plenty of ply thickness there to work with.

shoboat · Sep 9, 2024

Tom,

Mike is old school.
Not many people building a great machinist type box anymore.
Looks Great Mike,
Mark Sholund

Tom_Handley · Sep 9, 2024

shoboat said:
Tom,

Mike is old school.
Not many people building a great machinist type box anymore.
Looks Great Mike,
Mark Sholund

I'm old school too and autistic. Just suggesting some weight saving improvements.
I wish I had a table saw

Mike Hughes · Sep 10, 2024

Tom_Handley said:
Also I would suggest you could do away with these solid pieces of timber and run the drawers on the case sides, there is plenty of ply thickness there to work with.
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I use a certain set of harden allens. I have 4 each standard and metric. These need the space on the sides to run the allen down into them. They drop in from the top. You can see them in the pic. My drawer are not removable by sliding them out. There is keepers built into the sides that stop them 1/2 short of falling out. You could not put them in without these pieces there. The whole thing slides in and then is screw into the side pieces. This ply is 7/16". I dont think I would want to make it any smaller than that. And yeah I dont consider the tools as weight. I am taking the same tools now that I did before. They are just a lot easier to get to and better organized.

Mike Bontoft · Sep 10, 2024

Mike Hughes said:
All done. Both of them. Just in time for nats.
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Mark Anderson's tool box. He still needs to customize his for his Allen T handles.
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Love this! Well done Mickey!

Mike Hughes · Sep 10, 2024

Mike Bontoft said:
Love this! Well done Mickey!

Give Bridget a hug from me. Miss you guys.

Tom Foley · Sep 10, 2024

Nice work Mike !

Mike Bontoft · Sep 11, 2024

Mike Hughes said:
Give Bridget a hug from me. Miss you guys.

Will do. Same here. I'll surprise you one of these days.

Tom Foley · Sep 14, 2024

Tom_Handley said:
I'm old school too and autistic. Just suggesting some weight saving improvements.
I wish I had a table saw

Look on Marketplace , pawn shops . You can get a table saw for less than 50.00 .

Bill Gibson · Sep 14, 2024

Beautiful work Mike!

Mike Hughes · Sep 15, 2024

Tool boxes in action at the 2024 NAMBA Nats.

Loving them.

Tom_Handley · Sep 15, 2024

I thought they were much bigger for some reason. Now I see them, they look really good!

Mark Anderson · Sep 23, 2024

The tool boxes worked out really well. I need to drill the fold out t-handle rack now that I am home. Did not want to take a chance of getting them crooked with a hand drill. It was cool how many people stopped by and comented on them after seeing the build here. Thanks Mike!

LohringMiller · Sep 24, 2024

Have you added a rack for the AR?

Lohring Miller

bzubee · Sep 24, 2024

Mark Anderson said:
The tool boxes worked out really well. I need to drill the fold out t-handle rack now that I am home. Did not want to take a chance of getting them crooked with a hand drill. It was cool how many people stopped by and comented on them after seeing the build here. Thanks Mike!

Mark the boxes looked really good in person.

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