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does anybody have one of these or similar?

Stanley 1-79-206 Rolling Workshop

i want something to keep turning bits and pieces together- from drive centres and chuck parts to drill bits, and finishes. Probably not turning chisels.

Before buying i would like to know how sturdy these things are.

portability is useful but not the prime importance. Drawers are pretty essential.
 
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I use steel engineers tool drawers from Halfords. Often on offer. Lined with foam mats keeps everything together and has casters to move when needed. Mine is in two parts the lower having a cupboard and drawers and the removable upper section drawers and a hinged top section which takes chucks etc. nicely. No good for chisels unless you lay them out horizontally although I guess you could fix a magnetic strip if you wanted to, but I gather you don't want to use it for chisels anyway.
 
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I'm fairly sure I've seen these in my local B&Q, not suggesting you by it from there but if you have one local it might be worth a trip to see how robust it is in the flesh, so to speak :nooidea:
 
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i never thought of that. so used to no shops stocking what i want, i hadnt considered going to see it!
 
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All the best grouping together portable tools makes them very easy to remove from your care en masse. My mate lost 40000 dollars worth from behind his house in a tradies trailer and all.


Peter. :devil:
 
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I don't have one of those but I do have a Stanley mobile tool box like this and a couple of Stanley toolboxes similar to this.

They are as tough as old boots. I use the mobile one to stand on to reach shelves in the workshop and my mate who is a professional tiler has one that gets checked into his van and taken on site and as far as I remember he has had it for about five years and it is still going strong.

You might want to think about some of the other issues raised and suggestions made but one thing you probably don't need to worry about is robustness of the Stanley kit.
 
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I have had plenty of stanley stuff and its all been pretty tough and mine goes on site in the workshop it will last many years as others have said see if you can see on first hand to see if its going to hold what you require :thumbs:
 
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after a bit of deliberation, and looking at the tool cabinets that Halfords had on offer, I went for 208 US PRO TOOLS AFFORDABLE TOOL STORAGE CHEST BOX TOOL BOX CABINET GREY | eBay on ebay

it has arrived earlier in the week whilst i was working away, but having a day off today I have had a chance to start filling it up. It seems to be of reasonable quality- on par with the halfords range that they had in stock, although that was the budget range rather than the top end stuff.

This may not be the final solution for storage of lathe bits, but it will keep drills, taps, dies, drive centres, chuck drawers etc together. In tim, I might get another for pen kits, pen blanks, etc.

It isnt quite what i started out looking for, but so far so good. I also got 20% off it with the ebay offer the other day.
 
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I have bought stuff from them before and every time it turned up damaged.
To be fair to them I blamed the couriers on the first two occasions due to the thin packaging being damaged also.
But on the third occasion the packaging was intact and the goods inside were still damaged.
Never much and easily repairable but that's not the point, I shouldn't have had to repair anything on new goods init?
 
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I line shelves with the under mat stuff that holds them in place it stops movement under a my Taig Lathe it hold that in place (the Taig is mounted on a board) the same stugg we use to grip jar tops etc.

Peter.:thumbs::thumbs:
 
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i think that I may get one of those too at some point, but my lathe is too long with the extension on to put on top.
 
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