Mini tool Boxes are ALL the rave. Or are they?

[mtngunr]

Looks like a good case to store EDC gear. Wallets, pouches, pocket knives, flashlights, hanks, pens, yaddida, yaddida, yaddida, all in one convenient place.

Anything you don't mind laying on painted steel will be just fine in them. Any anti-scratch lining added to bottoms of drawers or sides will make interior of small drawers ever smaller/shallower....also will be kinda noisy, but surely classier than a plastic tackle box, if the lids don't flop over and spring hinges. I agree they need handles and top latch for carrying.

 

[Glock 'em down]

Anything you don't mind laying on painted steel will be just fine in them. Any anti-scratch lining added to bottoms of drawers or sides will make interior of small drawers ever smaller/shallower....also will be kinda noisy, but surely classier than a plastic tackle box, if the lids don't flop over and spring hinges. I agree they need handles and top latch for carrying.

I was thinking just a stationary/desktop box for housing extra/additional flashlights, pocket knives, wallets, etc. that isn't in use at the moment. Unless you don't have multiple flashlights, pocket knives and wallets, etc. that is.

 

[BobbyV]

I was given one of the Kobalts for Christmas. The drawers have more play than the HF ones.

I use it to store many small gun parts and as a junk drawer for my office.

 

[mtngunr]

I was thinking just a stationary/desktop box for housing extra/additional flashlights, pocket knives, wallets, etc. that isn't in use at the moment. Unless you don't have multiple flashlights, pocket knives and wallets, etc. that is.

Some views suggest a minimal lining, at least in bottom. I lived by tool boxes, and know them unkind to personal possessions if just pitched in on the painted steel, and opening and closing drawers will have stuff sliding into painted steel sides...as far as keeping nice stuff nice, some precautions may be in order, but very much like the idea my own self, having about 4,765,638 loose small items laying about the house at any given time.

 

[Glock 'em down]

Some views suggest a minimal lining, at least in bottom. I lived by tool boxes, and know them unkind to personal possessions if just pitched in on the painted steel, and opening and closing drawers will have stuff sliding into painted steel sides...as far as keeping nice stuff nice, some precautions may be in order, but very much like the idea my own self, having about 4,765,638 loose small items laying about the house at any given time.

Yeah, if I were to get one, I'd definitely put some liners in the drawers and some rubber dodads on the bottom and the bottom of the lid.

 

[Glock 'em down]

I was given one of the Kobalts for Christmas. The drawers have more play than the HF ones.

I use it to store many small gun parts and as a junk drawer for my office.

Yeah, I saw that. But seems like the Kobalt drawers open more than the HF. Besides, the HF comes in red, blue and black. The Kobalt comes in...

 

[BobbyV]

Yeah, I saw that. But seems like the Kobalt drawers open more than the HF. Besides, the HF comes in red, blue and black. The Kobalt comes in...

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That’s the one I received.

 

[alucard]

Yeah, if I were to get one, I'd definitely put some liners in the drawers and some rubber dodads on the bottom and the bottom of the lid.

The HF ones have liners and rubber stops for the lid. Drawer slides w/ bearings (?) and magnetic close.

 

[Glock 'em down]

The HF ones have liners and rubber stops for the lid. Drawer slides w/ bearings (?) and magnetic close.

The only thing I disliked about the HF, besides the colors, is the drawers don't open as wide as the Kobalt. I'm sure that's because of the design, but still. Seems like you loose some space because of that.