HF/U.S. General 30” Bulk Storage Tech Cart

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https://www.harborfreight.com/30-in-Bulk-Storage-Black-Tech-Cart-64002.html

I need a tool cart to fit into a 32.5" long section of my garage so I think this one is perfect. The price is great as well.

I plan to use this cart to store overflow from my main toolbox. In particular, the blow-molded cases. I think the two deep drawers and one of the shelves will be perfect for this.

Does anyone own one? I am curious if a 5-gal bucket will fit on the bottom shelf if the middle shelf was installed in the highest position.
 
I doubt a 5 gallon bucket will fit with the shelf installed. If you want to keep the shelf and use a bucket, TSC sells 2 or 3 gallon buckets that are the same diameter as a 5 gallon just shorter.
 
Seems like a great idea. Thanks for the post.
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That price is better than the expired coupons. I have the 4-drawer version and it works perfectly. Good slides, stable and well built.
 
Originally Posted by PowerSurge
Don't own one nor would I. I'm done with Chinese products, when possible.


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Any chance that an industrial supplier might have something similar made domestically?
 
Originally Posted by OVERKILL
Originally Posted by PowerSurge
Don't own one nor would I. I'm done with Chinese products, when possible.


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Any chance that an industrial supplier might have something similar made domestically?


You're kidding, right?
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Originally Posted by PowerSurge
Don't own one nor would I. I'm done with Chinese products, when possible.


What an entirely unhelpful post ! Love the inclusion of "when possible" though.... Kinda throws your disdain out the window.
 
Originally Posted by Snagglefoot
Originally Posted by OVERKILL
Originally Posted by PowerSurge
Don't own one nor would I. I'm done with Chinese products, when possible.
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Any chance that an industrial supplier might have something similar made domestically?
You're kidding, right?
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Haha ! Is money no object in this scenario ? Snap On has similar carts here: https://shop.snapon.com/categories/Roll-Carts-(Blue-Point)/629510. Oooops, even Snap On are made in China (and 5x the price).
 
Just cut the top of the bucket down to make it fit.

A table saw does a nice job of it but sheet metal shears will work.

An alternative would be to source a 'pickle bucket' - these are three gallon.
 
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^ You must get different buckets than the thin PVC I have many of. They will crack if you try to use shears or anything but the finest pitch saw blade. Granted mine are aged, reused buckets that have had a little sun exposure already.
 
Originally Posted by Snagglefoot
Originally Posted by OVERKILL
Originally Posted by PowerSurge
Don't own one nor would I. I'm done with Chinese products, when possible.


This
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Any chance that an industrial supplier might have something similar made domestically?


You're kidding, right?
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Why would I be kidding? There are lots of industrial storage carts we run into on hospital projects used by biomed in their space, many of them have lovely little "Made in USA" stickers on the side of them with a little flag. These are not "tool truck" brands, but are of excellent quality and I expect they make something that would fit the purpose noted by the OP.
 
Originally Posted by hallstevenson
Haha ! Is money no object in this scenario ? Snap On has similar carts here: https://shop.snapon.com/categories/Roll-Carts-(Blue-Point)/629510. Oooops, even Snap On are made in China (and 5x the price).


My upper Snap-On (not Blue Point) cabinet is made in the USA, my lower Craftsman one is made in Canada. Attitudes like this is why China will continue to gut the US manufacturing sector. Even after exposing the massive vulnerability that is outsourcing everything to a communist state playing the long game for total global domination, folks will just bend over and take it because trying to find something else is "too much work"
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Originally Posted by OVERKILL
Snap-On Industrial (Williams) manufactures a number of made in the USA Service Carts:
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https://www.snaponindustrialbrands....on%20Industrial%20Brands%20CAT4%2074.pdf

The 50723 is 30", and similar to what the OP posted and is $203.00:
https://www.toolsource.com/misc-c-3...g-drawer-red-p-281702.html?tsqtid=872676

https://protoolwarehouse.com/30-williams-service-cart-with-locking-2-drawer-red/
https://aboloxtools.com/Williams-50723

Not sure if this is accurate but both sites indicate the COO is China.
 
Originally Posted by JeffKeryk
I don't get the anti-China thing. Moving manufacturing offshore was and continues to be a business decision.


Theft of IP, vulnerability to supply chain interruption when there's a global situation (like the current one)...etc. China is most certainly playing to long game to usurp the US as the global superpower and folks are scrambling over each other to give it to them in the name of saving a few dollars. You want cheap labour? Use Mexico, they aren't a communist dictatorship [censored]-bent on global domination.
 
Originally Posted by Snagglefoot
Originally Posted by OVERKILL


The 50723 is 30", and similar to what the OP posted and is $203.00:
https://www.toolsource.com/misc-c-3...g-drawer-red-p-281702.html?tsqtid=872676


$203 vs $90. That's certainly enough for most consumers to make the decision.


And that's the sad part, it's $103 bucks difference and it's a conscious choice being made to put the bulk of that money in the hands of the CCP with a few bucks touching some minimum wage hands along the way versus some of it making its way into the pocket of every American or Canadian involved from fabrication, assembly, transport and distribution. We are all complicit, if consumers weren't accepting of it, it wouldn't have happened, but we just grumbled under our breath and have lived with it and now we are dealing with defective and sub-standard medical supplies showing up for front-line healthcare workers, scrambling to keep these same people that ensure our health safe because we shipped manufacture over there to save a few bucks. Our hens are coming home to roost.

The west is the architect of its own demise, delivered not via the bomb and bullet, but through our own insatiable consumption and perpetual pursuit of the cheapest price instead of the best value. We've eagerly sold our souls for the latest trinket while millions live without sufficient means to survive a month without a paycheque. We've morphed into a society who is defined by our consumerism and China has embraced that and used it as a lever to work themselves into the centre of it all, consuming our resources to feed our glut, buying our debt and slowly enabling the unravelling as we wipe the drool from our lips and blubber "more sir!". We've become a pathetic and lethargic glutton, so infatuated with our own desires for "more" that we've turned a blind eye to our world crumbling around us. Roads are in disrepair, regulations are crippling everything, debt, at all levels, is through the roof, and we really care not as long as we can get that next best thing.

OP: Sorry for the derail, but COO has become a bit of a hot button topic as of late and with there being options potentially not rubber stamped by the CCP at your disposal, I thought it wise to highlight that. I did not intend to hijack your thread.
 
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