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Fine Example of a Tool Chest.

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Mike Cole:
A wooden and an steel toolbox were both part of my apprenticeship with Director General Ships. The steel box is now my spanner box so used most days. The larger wooden box holds some compleated parts for my model traction engine. It is nice to have stuff I made 30 years ago.

Mike

HS93:

--- Quote from: Bernd on August 12, 2011, 01:33:33 PM ---Ok, any Madmodder have a tool chest better than this?  :drool:  Tool Chest

Bernd

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did anybody see th qualifiying for the bikes at indianapolis and the close up of NORM.

Peter

PeterE:
I made myself at tool chest and a storage cart for my small lathe and a bunch of tools. The tool chest is made from simple wooden shelving, you know the kind that is made up from strips. Some smaller and thinner bits were used for the drawers and the whole lot sanded and painted in my shop color at the end. They were displayed in my thread under the My Shop group earlier. Here is a closer look at the chest itself.


Front view, and on the inside of the lid there is a ring in which I intend to put useful charts etc.

If we look more closely into the top drawer:

we can see that there is place to just drop in tools, but also more orderly placed bits used for marking out.

If we slide the shallow marking out drawer a bit to the left we find the precision measurement things.


The drawers below contains taps and dies, reamers and broaches, pin punches etc.


...and finally the heaviwer tools like smaller V-blocks, bench anvils, files etc are stored in the larger drawers.

Not very complicated to make but provides order and makes it easy for me to find what I look for (even though several tools are on the benches at the moment). Works a treat really.

BR

/Peter

John Stevenson:
If you stick you head into a carpet and flooring showroom in the UK [ don't know about other places ], the smaller the better you can usually scrounge or buy very cheaply packs of hardwood flooring that are damaged.

Try to get the solid flooring as against the laminated MDF crap and you are halfway to getting all the drawer material for the boxes.
The sides can be just decent ply with a small piece glued onto the front edge to preserve the looks. That's how mine are but from the angle it's hard to see the side joint.

John S.

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