What Did You Buy Today?

wachuko said:
I need a couple of those... but I want to stay away from the hard (easy to break) plastic drawers... I tend to break those easily...

Looking to buy the ones that the drawers are made from the more flexible plastic kind (less likely to shatter).

I would love a setup like what the local ACE Harware stores have... I believe those are Durham Cabinet Drawers... but those are quite expensive...

I was looking at the Akro-Mils... but unsure of how those hold up over time.
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The plastic that Treston uses is quite durable actually, almost LEGOish. I used to work in pharmaceutical logistics development and have nothing but good to say about their products :encourage:

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Once an employee ran into a unit like this with a forklift. A couple of drawers shattered and we were able to replace them in no time. Luckily Treston sells individual drawers, because not all of the manufacturers do.
 
wachuko said:
I need a couple of those... but I want to stay away from the hard (easy to break) plastic drawers... I tend to break those easily...

Looking to buy the ones that the drawers are made from the more flexible plastic kind (less likely to shatter).

I would love a setup like what the local ACE Harware stores have... I believe those are Durham Cabinet Drawers... but those are quite expensive...

I was looking at the Akro-Mils... but unsure of how those hold up over time.
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I have Akro-Mills cabinets my dad bought in the early 1960's

They hold up well, never broken a drawer.

John
 
Got loose at an auction - here's my haul:

A sure shot sprayer, some oil cans including a Golden Rod one, a box of pliers with some mini channel locks and proto pliers along with Vice Grip and craftsman ones additionally there's some cheapo ones included too. I also won a box of pillow block bearings which some look used but at first glance they all look serviceable. The final item was a shop made ball turner. It's done well and has a ball bearing between the base and the body. The lathe it came off from was a Grizzly G0752Z and the spacing where it bolts to the cross slide is smaller than on my lathe so it won't work without modification. Furthermore the tool height is not on center line when i set it on my cross slide so i may offer it up for sale so someone with a Grizzly lathe can get to work.

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I have a job that entails 78 pieces of .250 round bar cold rolled. Not wanting to lift the bandsaw 78 times, clean up after the evolution saw or least of all part that many on the lathe I thought I’d give this a try.
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Harbor Freight’s 6” cut off saw. 5 amps (probably a little optimistic) 6” blades at $1.75 each. It performed just fine. A little slow until the edge of the cutoff blade broke in but after that it made short work of not only the 1/4” round stock but 1” angle as well. The little saw was set up on the tailgate of the truck and the material was cut out in the parking lot. No clean up.

I figured it would pay for itself with this job alone. It did that and didn’t hardly wear down the first blade. Took a ton of time out of this job.
 
matthewsx said:
I have Akro-Mills cabinets my dad bought in the early 1960's

They hold up well, never broken a drawer.

John
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Akro-Mills, that takes me back; I have 8 of them scattered about the shop. The short ones fit nicely against the triple 2x10 beams, up out of the way and the taller ones are at elbow height. They are overflowing with miscellaneous hardware, electronic parts, tool bits, end mills, you name it (mounting hardware for Cutler-Hammer bat-handle switches, anyone?). They have to be 30 - 40 (or more) years old. The only issue I ever had was that some soft materials soften the drawers (things like artificial fishing worms - they do the same thing to the hard plastic A-M boxes.
 
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