**Item: **Craftsman Rolling Tool Chest +%26 Cabinet
Price: $249.99
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Immediately thought of Home Alone 2, when the Craftsman Tool Chest came down the stairs and crushed Harry.
Does it make me a tomboy if I ask for this for Christmas?
Note that these are not the smoother/stronger/more durable ball-bearing drawer slides. I bought a set of the Quiet Glide tool chests from Craftsman and immediately recognized the slides as the cheap ones you get with Ikea/Walmart furniture. Needless to say, I quickly returned them for the ball bearing versions.
It looks like a great toolbox, but I don’t think craftsman is the great name it used to be. But for the price, it might be a great entry level toolbox, especially if your tools are scattered in a bunch of different small toolboxes, or worse yet cardboard boxes.
Came here to say the same thing. There is a similar sized set at harbor freight for a little more that has full ball bearing slides and is built like a tank. Craftsman is not the quality it used to be, and even if it were you should never buy a tool chest without ball bearing slides. It’s all about ball bearings these days.
The furniture in my bedroom cost many times more than this tool chest and the drawers are much larger and hold a lot more stuff. None of the drawers have ball bearing slides and my wife and I have lived happily with them for years and never a problem. So what’s the big deal? Just squirt some oil in those cheap drawer slides and you’re good to go.
That was my first thought as well (the scene, for anyone who may not remember). It’s what I’ll always think of when I see these things.
I ordered 3 of these the last time they were offered, in white, and every piece arrived damaged because they are not packed properly. All were returned.
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The furniture in my bedroom cost many times more than this tool chest and the drawers are much larger and hold a lot more stuff. None of the drawers have ball bearing slides and my wife and I have lived happily with them for years and never a problem. So what’s the big deal? Just squirt some oil in those cheap drawer slides and you’re good to go.
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Fill one of your expensive dresser drawers with 50 pounds worth of tools and then tell us all how well it slides. Seriously, you’re comparing a drawer meant to hold sweaters and socks to a tool chest drawer? All drawers are equal, some are just more equal than others, indeed.
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Came here to say the same thing. There is a similar sized set at harbor freight for a little more that has full ball bearing slides and is built like a tank. Craftsman is not the quality it used to be, and even if it were you should never buy a tool chest without ball bearing slides. It’s all about ball bearings these days.
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Ha! Nice Fletch reference!
Really helpful; thanks.
Can’t agree more . . . when a drawer holds a lot of weight, the amount of force it takes to overcome friction to open/close the drawer goes up . . . that’s when you’re thankful that you have low friction ball bearings.
I suppose that if all your tools are made of plastic or carbon fiber this might not matter . . .
I was going to say that I bought this set 20 years ago and it’s great. Then I read the other comments. The one I have is great and the drawers will hold as much as I can fit in them. They definitely have ball bearing slides. I think this would be OK if you have something else to keep heavy tools in. But, buying a tool chest that isn’t able to hold tools? I wouldn’t, even if it was really cheap.
This toolbox would be fine for not-too-heavy tools or as a hobby box, but I wouldn’t want to load down the drawers in this toolbox with a bunch of heavy wrenches and sockets.
If you have a bunch of heavy tools and want a Craftsman I’d wait… we are in the holiday season and I’m sure a ball-bearing drawer model of similar capacity will go on sale soon somewhere for a few dollars more.
QFT
I have acquired over 30 of these or very similar combos from Craftsman over the last 40 years in my fabrication shop. Yes, the plain bearing slides are not as smooth as the ball bearing slides, but they do the job. The cheaper ball bearing slides that come on less expensive sets have just recently come into this price range and are nothing like the real slides that come on a Snap-On or other high end box. This is not a great deal, but hey are serviceable tool boxes. I was going to order a set for my son until I read about the poor packaging. I have run into this same problem with other boxes and it is a real PITA to have to deal with.
Many years ago my wife and I were fishing Cranberry Lake when she got a hook caught in her arm. Went to the local hospital to get it removed. Went into the surgical area with the doctor and here are all these Craftmans tool chest lined up along the wall! He went over got a few instruments, removed the hook and off we went.
When I was looking at toolboxes for my home a couple years ago, I noticed the craftsman toolboxes all felt flimsy to me (even the “professional” models). As someone who has used multiple brands of higher end boxes at work, I wanted a nice box for home. Eventually, I found the thorsen boxes at osh, and have been very pleased with it. It’s not much more than this box on woot, but is a thicker gauge metal and comes with ball bearing sliders… Some of the bolts are a bit chintzy, but those are easy and cheap to replace.