Some days it doesn't pay to get out of bed........

[ggunter]

So Saturday morning I was all happy because I took off Friday to prep everything because I was going to shoot sealer on my car. One last check was to check and drain my compressor just to make sure there was no water. I moved my tool box out of the way and turned it and bent down to open the drain and all I heard was a crash. Evidently the ultra smooth ball bearing drawers on my box only needed a little momentum from turning it to send the drawers into an open postion and the picture tells how the rest of my day went.......UUUGGGHHH.147938 The good news is Saturday I got the sealer on.

[Jeff Kleiner]

Look at it this way; it was probably due for a good reorganization and purge anyway. Lord knows mine needs it (but I'd rather not begin by tipping it over!)

Jeff

[GTBradley]

I have a love/hate relationship with my toolbox for the same reason.

[ggunter]

It did get a good purge of old tools I used to use when I worked on trucks for a living. My neighbor heard me cussing across the street (about four hundred feet away) and came over yesterday to ask me what happened.

[narly1]

My craftsman tool box did that. Part of the problem was that the casters on the bottom were only mounted to the sheet metal bottom. One corner buckled a bit and the tilt went from bad to worse.

What I ended up doing was getting a piece of heavier steel the size of the bottom of the chest and bolted the casters to that and the sheet metal bottom with large flat washers to spread out the load better.

And I'm a lot more careful these days with only having 1 or 2 drawers open at a time.:D

[weendoggy]

I think that's why they have closing lids to lock the drawers on moving. Oops! Saw this happen a few times during my days in the shop watching my staff move them. Too much fun. ;)

[ggunter]

When I first started working on trucks back in the 70's we had a service pit at a place I worked, and some tech's would move their box over to the edge of the pit and just reach up into a drawer to get a tool (you know where i'm going) and get too many drawers open and the whole box would go upside down into the pit. Talk about something hard to get out. And no it never happened to me.

[GoDadGo]

Glad it didn't fall on your or the car.

[ggunter]

You would have heard me scream in Louisiana.

[egchewy79]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ2ChdkijYA

reminds me of this

[GThompson]

That SUCKS!!!! What brand of boxes are they? My Matco lower box has detents in the slides to offer some resistance when they’re closed, I presume so that this doesn’t happen. I feel for you!

[ggunter]

These boxes had rubber detents when they were new about 30 years ago. the detents have long since worn out.

[Avalanche325]

My Craftsman box (20 years old) had the same issue. The plastic detents were breaking. I called Waterloo, the company that made the boxes back then. They only sell the whole runners. They actually contacted the company in China that makes the runners. I got a little box of the plastic detents in the mail from China a week later.


I am glad the box didn't hit your car, or you.

[ggunter]

I eneded up putting an 1/8" shim under the front wheels and now they close automatically. Yeah!

[Blitzboy54]

That sir, is a bad day