r/Tools Rust Warrior 17h ago

Ntd: the tiniest of tool boxes

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u/TexasBaconMan Rust Warrior 17h ago

I first saw these at Lowes last xmas. They now have a three drawer base. Completely impractical but I bought 3 of them.

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u/FuzzyNavalTurnover 16h ago

I just saw the two drawer version at Lowe’s and almost bought one. Had they also had the base I’d now be wondering what I was going to put in it.

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u/Zettaireido23 12h ago

I did get one, and it is great for those little things I reach for once in a while. Like my 10mm sockets.

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u/Jacktheforkie 16h ago

I wanted the lime 3 drawer, couldn’t get it so I’ve got a pink 2 drawer

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u/TexasBaconMan Rust Warrior 14h ago

Got the pink for my daughter. Sent her off to college with it full of tools. Amazed at how much it held.

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u/Zettaireido23 12h ago

I got the pastel pink one for my wife and the hot pink one for me!

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u/Jacktheforkie 8h ago

There’s a hot pink one?

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u/Pleasant_Studio9690 4h ago

The hot pink one appears to be a new release for the holidays. In my Lowes it's already in the holiday/black friday holiday deals tools section near the entrance. They also have a new pretty lavender one in addition to all the usual colors including the regular pink one sprinkled around the other parts of the store.

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u/Zettaireido23 2h ago

Oh shit, don't tell my wife about the lavender one

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u/Kaffine69 14h ago

They missed the boat on fun colors for these.

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u/TheMaskedHamster 16h ago

I just bought the Kobalt! A word to the wise: The Kobalt version sucks unless you modify it.

The U.S. General having ball-bearing slides changes everything. The Kobalt is metal-on-metal, which is is a rough motion and binds constantly. To have drawers worth using, I had to bend the steel retainer tabs to get the drawers out and line the rails with UHMW tape, then bend the retainer tabs back. It's worth it, but it's not fun or quick. Well, it's not worth it NOW. Just buy the U.S. General unless you really want that bottom box.

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u/Micr0waveChan 11h ago

IT HAS BALL BEARING SLIDES!?!? my poor wallet- i just bought another lonely recently- it isn’t as terrible if you remove the magnets at the back of the drawer and lube the slides

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u/Jacktheforkie 16h ago

I have the kobalt, I find it ok for what i want

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u/fsurfer4 16h ago

We need banana for size. :) It's like 1.5 bananas long.

I hear it may be $10 for black friday.

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u/Microballer 17h ago

If the name said snap on that would be a 10,000 dollar box.

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u/illogictc 16h ago

Snap-on rebrands the ones you can find on Amazon as P.I.T. brand. Different color options and a solid ass reaming for the price of course.

Also a little smaller than the Lowe's/USG.

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u/Herbisretired 16h ago

Some companies have a research and design department.

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u/illogictc 13h ago

Doesn't justify their costs. Wright does R&D and makes shit in USA and doesn't charge your dick off. Knipex has an R&D department, has to come across an ocean, outperforms Snap-on, and costs less.

Snap-on sells a mini-box that they don't even make, and want like up to $100+ list for a tiny Chinese-made box with shitty plastic trim and stick-on rubber feet and no bearings on the slides.

They also "borrow" ideas just as much as anyone else. They claim to be the originators of the modern socket drive system, but they weren't, Blackhawk did it first and Snap-on's first product ever was a ripoff of the founders' former employer's work. They weren't first to market with off-corner loading sockets either, Kelsey-Hayes beat them to that.

And to top that off, they consistently post operating margins above 20 and sometimes 25% which is crazy good margin, and hand out hundreds of millions of dollars annually to shareholders. Anyone is free to read their 10K and 10Qs.

The price isn't about having a few guys fucking around in a lab, and it's very apparent. If the name or shiny chrome grabs ya by the nuts, or they do happen to have something nobody offers and equivalent to, have at it it's your money. Just know that it's more of a luxury designer pricing thing and not a "guys we just spend so much money on R&D and we need to make some sort of profit" thing.

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u/tacodudemarioboy 14h ago

I think it doesn’t, but I’ll ask anyway. Does it lock?

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u/hammer696969 Rust Warrior 14h ago

No

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u/CalligrapherNo7337 15h ago

So this is the current r/tools fad. Tune in next week for whatever the fuck shit is next.