Mark,
I have one of the non roller "Whatever-Glide" Craftsman boxes as well, that my parents bought me for Christmas a few years ago when I was building my house. It's a perfectly nice box, but if you put ANYTHING heavy in the drawers, you can't open the dang things because the "Whatever-Glide" doesn't glide whatsoever.
I have a pretty fair amount of weight in some of the drawers on the US General box and it works a treat. I am going to bring the Craftsman out from being buried in my garage and use it for the duplicates of my duplicates, and probably some wire organization and other stuff like that.
Hopefully in a couple months I'm going to have a side and a top for the HF box as well.
Holy shit, Blake!
That was $350??
Shop radio is the the clear bin to the right.
No, with the coupon it was $303!!!
And on the radio, nope. Mike got it below.
Nice Workbench flush mounted head unit! LOL
Hahaha.
I have a set of speakers my Mom snagged off of FreeCycle (they were supposed to be Bose but were Sony, we were looking for one cube to replace a bad one in her home theater system) that are hooked up. One in each corner. It's run off an old PC power supply that's hot wired to run it. I like it because it uses up 0 space in the garage.
For anyone that didn't notice, look at the cross beam under the work bench. There is a Sony Xplode there. Best part is the whole thing was free. The stereo came in my BMW when I bought it (I upgraded to a newer one) and the speakers/power supply were free as well. It jams pretty good too, I can hear it over the compressor/air tools.
Blake, do yourself a favor and buy a butane powered soldering iron. You'll probably never use the others after that.
I've used those as well. I actually really like my Rad Shack gun that's in the drawer, it's 150 watts, and I can solder 8 gauge wire with it no problem. I do a lot of super small detail work that I use the pencil irons for, though one of these days I need to pick up a Metcal or Weller station for that. I've actually done surface mount stuff about 1/4 the size of a grain of rice with a 5 dollar radio shack pencil iron. Now THAT takes a steady hand.
Another thing that's in the pictures that I think everyone should have is this:
http://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Ref-Thomas-J-Glover/dp/1885071337The Engineer's Pocket Reference. It has ALL KINDS of information from weight bearing capacities of different woods/metals, to current loads of wiring and the chili pepper hotness scale. Great book, a friend of the family got it for me when I was a kid.
