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Old 10-24-2008, 06:06 PM
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Portable toolbox recommendation anyone?

I need a toolbox. It has to be quite portable and has to hold a good assortment of handtools up to 17mm plus some small secure compartments for small parts like screws and bolts.

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Old 10-24-2008, 06:07 PM
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Kuan, if it doesn't have wheels and need a lift gate truck to haul . . . then it's not a toolbox.
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Old 10-24-2008, 06:57 PM
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Kuan, if it doesn't have wheels and need a lift gate truck to haul . . . then it's not a toolbox.
Like a Ford Pinto you mean?
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Old 10-24-2008, 07:05 PM
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I have to say that I have three steel "lunch box" style tool boxes, one for car stuff, one for home electrical and one for home plumbing. I also have a couple of "duck" bags that can be filled with stuff "on the fly" and then another compartment box with fastners, mollys, brackets and other common hardware.

I will admit that there's a substantial amount of duplication (anyone else have six rubber mallets laying around?) but for me it's much easier to have it separated like that.
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Old 10-24-2008, 07:40 PM
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I need a toolbox. It has to be quite portable and has to hold a good assortment of handtools up to 17mm plus some small secure compartments for small parts like screws and bolts.
Home Depot has a nifty 3 part toolbox that might be what you're looking for, it has a telescoping handle and wheels as well.
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I've got a plastic tool box in every car. I've got a small plastic box for traveling by plane to pick up a vehicle. I've got two plumbing tool buckets with the nylon pockets on the buckets. I've got a bucket with nylon pockets for home/apt repair. I have a small fabric tool 'tray' for small home/apt jobs. I've got a big toolbox stored under my Bluebird Wanderlodge in addition to a small plastic toolbox inside. I've got a toolset in a repair bucket for rafting.
Where would we be without Harbor Freight?
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Old 10-24-2008, 10:35 PM
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Where would we be without Harbor Freight?
In Minnesota? Where we live without a Harbor Freight?
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In Minnesota? Where we live without a Harbor Freight?


There's this newfangled invention called the internet on which you can shop.
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just as well go with something with some style.check out www.plattcases.com.i bought one years ago thru snap-on.you can get them with dividers.try something in the molded cases.
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Old 10-25-2008, 01:46 AM
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Flambeau

Flambeau makes several plastic toolboxes that are impregnated with an anti rust system that works well with tools that are in an area that is exposed to moisture (truck bed toolboxes, etc). They also make a line of smaller internal storage boxes, kinda like plastic sushi or bento boxes, that are nice to have.

I also use the Arno plastic line for my truck tool box. Their 20" box is perfect for the ranger and even the Benz. The Flambeau 29" box is also great but you find yourself tossing in tools you have no reason to carry, just because the thing is so damn big!

The Contico line is OK for non automotive uses as their plastic with a foam core does not last when it gets any small hole in the surface and it is exposed to any petrochemical because the internal foam core breaks down and the bottom will literally fall out.
Ask anyone who has one of the truck bed cross boxes by Contico, after 2 or 3 years in the sun they warp or sag and are no longer watertight.

I also have a case made by a Canadian firm called North American Strongbox, its an aircraft grade Stainless Steel dimpled plate in a 1/4" pattern. Kinda like a mini diamondplate but very lightweight as the dimple patter increases the rigdiity and allows the stainless to be 1/3rd the thickness of normal plate. All seams are welded, the hinge is a full length piano type, the latches are riveted on with each being lockable and the seal is a slot in channel with a double O ring seal. All rivets, angles, etc are stainless except for the bumper feet which are Nylon.
It was designed to protect a $40,000 Motion Picture camera body and I've carried everything from my complete Nikon digital camera set to all the handguns me and my buddies were taking to a shooting competition (meets the locked case rule and when secured with chain to the anchor rings in the trunk is basically theftproof.)

Anyway...
Rule #1-any toolbox should be large enough to act as a work seat
Rule #2-any toolbox should be large enougyh to act as an auxillary cooler for beverages and be WATERTIGHT to hold liquids. Comes in handy when you need to wash parts at the side of the road with kerosene or gas.
Rule#3-any toolbox should be of a size that will fit along the side of your trunk pointing for and aft not across the trunk.
why? Easier to secure and less likely to roll over and is out of
the way of the large stuff that ends up in the middle of the
trunk..

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