??? ??? I decided to consolidate 3 of my rollaway tool boxes
& bought the largest that HF had at the time the 56x22 top
& lower with the 7 drawer side? box .I had read a bunch of the
reviews & it was real well documented that the drawer latches
will break? . I had 2 broken within a week & there's probably
4-5 more these days but that's ok I knew going into it that would
happen . About a month in one of the slides lost the plastic part
that spaces the bearings . I contacted the store manager & he
said to bring it in , I said bring the drawer in & he said no
bring in the whole thing .
Well that didn't happen . since then 2 more slides have had their
balls drop , I guess it happens with age .? I've just learned to
open those drawers carefully & not to leave them open . When I
was building my kitchen cabinets for my new place I noticed that
one of the vendors I was looking at for drawer slides makes them
for tool boxes . I just have to find my notes & order some . I
don't move my tool box , so I had all these issues with a
stationary box . Still it was way more bang for my buck than any
others I looked at .Some of the reviews said that the wheels start
to fall apart with use & moving the boxes around , That I
cannot attest to . I looked at some of the boxes that Home Depot
sells , the drawers are super shallow it would have probably taken
5 drawers just for my opened & box wrenches . Another thing is
the bottom of the HD boxes are open so it's real easy for critters
to get in yer drawers .
YMMV
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On 1/30/2023 7:03 PM, Bill in OKC too via groups.io wrote:
I have three of them, two the
wooden-topped ones, Yukon brand, that are 22" deep by
46" long. the other is a US General, 18" deep x 42"
wide. They were advertised as 44", but the handle that
bolts on is the difference in length. The US General
branded one I have is obsolete, as they're now 22"
deep, and none of their current production accessories
will fit mine. I've been trying to find one I can
afford that is 56" long, as the 42" cabinet is both
too short and too narrow for my Atlas TH42 lathe,
which is what I actually bought it for. :( My only
real problem otherwise is that the wheels that come
with them all are in pairs of 2 that swivel, and 2
that don't, which makes it hard to get them up against
a wall, and with an unlevel floor, as in my shop,
they'll never give you a level workspace. I'm planning
on putting outrigger legs on them that I can adjust to
level the tops. After I get swivel wheels on all four
corners! ;)??
The US General boxes are rated for
heavier loads in their drawers, but they have a 5/8"
tall wall around the perimeter of the top, which is
thin sheet metal. I've got some 1/2 slices of recycled
baltic birch plywood that I've planned on putting on
mine, but I built (cobbled together from various
scraps and a cabinet that followed us home from
Germany) with the Alas on it now. I'm currently
considering using it for a pair of Unimat lathes, one
in lathe mode, one set up as a milling machine.?
Fortunately, my Heavy 10L came with one of the tube
and box stands, as none of these things are rated for
a 1000+ pound lathe. The Atlas is only about 267
pounds, but the counter shaft widens it's footprint to
nearly 2 feet at the headstock end. If yours is a 9"
bench lathe, it shouldn't be too heavy, I wouldn't
think.?
I've also got one of
the old GI metal desks. Mine has 3 drawers in the lift
side, the usual pen/pencil draw in the middle, and a
typewriter stand in the right side... 30"x60" top,
IIRC, and nice and solid. Not a great deal of usable
storage space, though. Trying to fit all this, and an
bunch of other crap/junk/junque in the shop has been
interesting. Having wheels on as much of it as
possible is an absolute necessity right now. ;)
Bill in OKC
William R. Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.)
Aphorisms to live by:
Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.?
SEMPER GUMBY!
Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome.
Physics doesn't care about your
schedule.
The only reason I know anything
is because I've done it wrong enough times
to START to know better
On Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 03:41:45 PM CST, Jim
Erdman via groups.io
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wrote:
I
am finally getting to the point where I can mount my 9"
South Bend lathe on something in the shop.? It is a
horizontal drive workshop model probably from the late
1930s.? I would like to have it on some kind of a base
with storage as my shop space is small.? Elsewhere I
have come across people who have mounted theirs on a
tool chest base from Harbor Freight or Home Depot or
similar base cabinet.? I'm thinking that I would not use
casters but mount the cabinet base to the floor and add
an additional top to the cabinet.? Harbor Freight and
Home Depot both have tool cabinets 22" to 24" or so deep
or a little more while most similar cabinets are 18"
deep.
Do any of you have experience with this kind of tool
cabinet used as a base for a lathe?? I'd like to get one
in the $500 to $600 range, otherwise instead of spending
more I will just build a bench to put the lathe on, but
the idea of a cabinet full of drawers appeals to me.
Thanks for suggestions!
Jim in Western Wisconsin
