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by WillAdams 1433 days ago
I scored a (picked over) English chest off Craigslist a while back --- unfortunately, it was left open for a long while and the front bowed out, and it had some strange design choices:

- too narrow to accommodate a full-sized framing square, the back of the lid was cut open allowing it to stick out (which makes it dangerous to move)

- only one open till which is fixed, w/ an odd saw till underneath

I put it on a small wheeled moving base from Harbor Freight, and tried storing all my traditional hand woodworking tools in it, but while they all fit, the organization is lacking and usage is problematic --- can't bring myself to get rid of it though.

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It is clearly an example from which you will build your own correctly formatted tool chest! Then convert it into a little library on a post, or mount a cooler in it for shop beers!
Thinking on it a bit more, I think that it will become my liquor storage cabinet.

For the "correctly formatted tool chest" my current plan is to see what will fit into fittings connected to an Apache 5800 (from Harbor Freight) --- if that doesn't work out, I'll probably break down and go full-on Systainer w/ a Tanos MW-1000.