Got to love those new tool boxes

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I'll stick with my 300 dollar Snap On box, lol.


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I still have my Snap-On boxes from 1976..The largest boxes they made at the time.
$1200 for the pair,weekly payment was $10.
 
niceolddart said:
That mill on the back of the trailer is worth AT LEAST $8000 I think. What a buy you got. All 3 of those look pretty new or very well taken care of.
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The white lathe and the mill were one year old. The down fall was no more spray booth until he moves.

Auctions and Company closings during the week when nobody shows up are where we get the deals. I just got another Yamaha Gas Golf cart at an auction. That is six , 4 that run great.

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Oh yeah if you look close we put snap-on decals on all the boxes even the crane and cabinets. This way we can charge more for labor. some are snap-on but some are not.
 
Oldmanmopar said:
The more tools you buy the more boxes you need. When ever you upgrade to a new tool box you have to buy another garage or shed for the old one. Its never ending. LOL
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I think I have 7 ,, That I remember,lost count.
 
I bought a $300 Matco box years ago because I thought it was a Snap On. Guy put the emblems on it. Still a good deal though it was almost new.
 
Well, you can say a lot about tool boxes, but if you’ve ever worked as flat rate mechanic, you’ll know the value of “a place for everything and everything in its’ place.” I bought my first Snap-On boxes while working as a motorcycle mechanic in Phoenix in 1977. One of the best investments I ever made, after it was laid out properly. I sold those boxes while I was a Snap-On Dealer and bought the same set in the Rick Mears edition when they came out on sale, and kept them when I turned in my tools in 1985. You can see them in my garage where they live now. There is another shot of a small black tool box in front of my motorcycle lift that has a Snap-On emblem on it. It’s a Harbor Freight. box I treated to an emblem left over from the spare parts on my tool truck. The black Husky was a gift from a friend for lacing up some wheels and other stuff on his son’s XR400. He got it with two others on a closeout at Home Depot. It hurst me to say it’s a better box than what I used to sell, although the new Snap-On boxes are much improved. It lives in my RV bay next to my lift and is loaded with really heavy stuff like grinders, body tools, lots of air tools, and supplies. I didn’t want it when he gave it to me because I didn’t think I had room for it. Now I couldn’t live without it.

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Well I will chime in on this as I just can’t resist, seeings how I have surely sent my Snap On kids thru college by now. I am on the heavy equipment industrial side. My box holds all kind of rigging, chains, come alongs, chain falls, etc. more times than not, my box is rigged then snatched by a crane and sent 100s of feet in the air, mercilessly dropped onto whatever structure we have temped in place and we go to work. Try that with a harbor freight box. I fully realize that is not how most folks use their box’s but that is/was everyday life for me. The thin metal box’s just can’t hang in that environment. All we see on job site are Macs, Snappy or straight up gang box’s. Nothing else survives.
 
Quality tools, quality boxes. I have Snap-On, MAC, Matco & some Craftsman (when they used to be good quality, made in USA tools) Most everything is over 30 years old & still going strong. When I was a mechanic, I needed good, dependable tools. Snap-On tools & the like were not cheap, but they have held up pretty well over the years of use/abuse. Now I use them at home a lot & I'm glad I have them still.
 
Anybody watch NCIS ? Common to see Snap-On boxes in the background.
 
I still have my first boxes from 1975 and my Dads from 1959 and 1960.I still use my boxes from 1990,everything works just like the day I bought them and my Son will use them when I'm long gone.
 
This is a tool cart with a side cabinet. They started the photo panel program when I was still selling. Makes for a custom box..
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azaustin said:
Well, you can say a lot about tool boxes, but if you’ve ever worked as flat rate mechanic, you’ll know the value of “a place for everything and everything in its’ place.”
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This. I bought my current box and set it up to rape 10k services on Harleys. I had my process down to where I could pull three drain plugs and be done with the service by the time the oil stopped dripping enough to put the drain plugs back in. I have one tray for inner primary jobs, one for base gaskets, one for services, one for tires, and one for forks.

Most guys crap when they see how small my box setup is, but I don't have to root around very often. It also helps that I don't have to work on automotive or foreign crap which seems to change every damn year and they give little or no thought to the schlub that's gotta service the machine.
 
Say what you will about Harbor Freight, but those new Icon boxes and tools are really gettin CLOSE to tool truck quality.
 
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