Snap on All Weather Mobile Tool Chest Reviews

So i have decided to practise a review of my mobile tool box.

To get-go with it is the rare orange one of these boxes which when i bought it meant it cost me a good £100 odd extra on acme of the basic colours one. This made it some where in the region of £550 altogether. This makes it less than a 3rd of the toll of the equivalent snapon box which retails for over £1700, and cheaper than the equivalent pelican case too at about just under to merely over half the price depending on which color you want.

This has an reward over the pelican and it is the same in this regard as the snapon variant in that information technology is transported up right and then all the tools arent sent everywhere inside when information technology is beingness transported. The pelican requires you to tip it on to its dorsum for transport meaning unless your tools are all in cream cut outs they volition all terminate up all over the place inside the drawers. The snapon and pelican versions accept ball begetting drawer runners which i have to assume volition be much smoother to use unlike mine which merely runs on plastic on plastic. Though i have never found this to be an issue. This dose how e'er cause a unlike issue which i will touch on further into this review.

It is fabricated for Sthalwille by GT line an Italian business firm mainly making cases for the air craft technician industry. Gt line make a range of acessories for this tool box series 1 of which i accept fitted to this item box. Im providing a link to both the Sthalwille version and GT line one beneath for your reference and as i dont want to write out all the specs here.

STAHLWILLE version:
https://world wide web.misterworker.com/en-gb/stahlwille/13217-tool-trolleys-13217/8291.html

GT lines version:
https://www.misterworker.com/en-gb/gt-line/polypropylene-tool-trolley-4-drawers-ai1kt01/13555.html

The box wheels on ii pairs of casters that are at the back of the box. Both suppliers sell a kit which gives you 4 spinner casters to put on each corner. Id say that if to be used seriously with a comprehensive tool kit onboard every bit a mobile tool box these spinner are probably a must, for ii reasons. Ane: that the telescopic handle while probably strong enough has a very noticeable amount of flex and feels every bit though it is going to go damaged overtime by wheeling it around similar this fully loaded. This box gets extremely heavy when completely loaded with tools. The other reason i volition elaborate on afterward.

The box comes with v drawers three shallow, 1 mid depth and ane deep drawer, two of the drawers, a shallow and the deep one are currently in the back of my pickup being used equally seperate tool boxes. The tool box comes supplied with two articulate plastic lids which can exist slid on too these drawers to make them individual tool boxes. They are made of tough plastic and seem to hold upwardly fairly well. I volition be able to requite more than detail when i have retrieved them from my pickup and i volition see how well the hinges on the dorsum of the lids and drawers take faired when not protected by the tool box. These did seem to be the flimsyest part of the whole setup. In under the top lid in that location is a tote tray and a compartment below information technology which is deep plenty to agree shallow half inch sockets, even with the tote tray in place or a 36mm socket lying on its side.

This tool carte du jour is an accompaniment produced by gt line for these boxes, i have had information technology loaded with small and chubby spaners in the by and information technology holds up well. It seems to be a quality flake of kit with good elastic and potent fittings which merely screw into the plastic chapeau.

This is an issue with this particular tool box the drawers dont come out all the way, pregnant if you use the unabridged depth of the drawer which near will have to do with the pocket-size size of this box, if it was foamed out then you would not be able to acess the tools in the very back without taking the drawer out. While annoying this is not difficult to exercise. This is the problem i reffered to earlier which would exist easily cure by ball begetting runners. Besides in the case of the shallow drawers occasionally it is really difficult to find tools that will fit in them due to thier shallow depth i did in the cease, resort to buying snapon onetime style handle drivers to detect ones that would fit upto a no3 Phillip's and a large apartment bract in that depth of drawer.

The other trouble, though a modest one is the bottom drawer fouls on the front drop down door of the tool box and can be quite difficult if full of heavy tools to get open occasionally, the problem seems to be caused past the back up ribs on the front door of the box meaning it sits at a slight incline and dose non lay flat. This is where i retrieve the spinner caster kit would solve this problem as it should raise the box up a flake allowing the front door to drop down more.

All in all it is a good box and keeps you tools dry and secure in the rain and damp. Im non sure id buy i again though only maybe every bit my requirements for a tool box are changing and im starting too need a bigger i currently. I like that all the drawers can be taken out so you dont accept to break your dorsum taking it in and out of a vehicle.

In determination a handy sturdy tool box that will take merely about annihilation yous can throw at it. Id would change the manufacturing plant offered drawers effectually so information technology came with two mids and 4 shallows, the deep 1 just seems unnecessary. Replacement drawers are like shooting fish in a barrel to become a agree of.

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