Greg Reimer
Well Known Member
Years ago, when I paid my house off early, and was working for the City of Los Angeles Dept. of General Services in their vehicle fleet shop, I decided I wanted a truly decent tool box for work. I got a KRL 656 and 651 top and bottom on sale, and added a 291 side box. Nice setup for what I had, In the subsequent years, it got quite full of nothing but Snap On tools. I bought a side by side box with two rows of drawers and the long top drawer that was of the same vintage and took it home and filled it with Snap On stuff as well and engine building tools, trans tools, and rear end set up stuff. I also bought the wall mounted puller set with the two front doors with the windows in them. It is bolted to the garage wall above the side by side, and then I decided that I was tired of taking stuff home from work and having to bring it back every time I wanted to do something else on a weekend, so I bought another KRL 656,651 and 291 set on a rather drastic sale since they were discontinuing that threesome. I also filled them with duplicates of my work tools, so now I have 2 of almost everything I worked with. When I retired and brought the work set home, I unbolted the top and bottom boxes and used a shop fork lift to load the three boxes separately into my truck,using thick cardboard, moving blankets, and ratcheting strap type tie downs from my car trailer to keep the load tight for the 30 mile ride home. I used my cherry picker to unload the truck and set it up.One side of my garage is solid tool boxes from the back wall to my safe which was bolted to the floor when the safe was delivered. Turns out that I had 1/2" to spare between the back wall of the garage and the safe.Took some strategic maneuvering to get this stuff in the garage,but it makes for a rather impressive tool wall on the one side of the garage. I just got into the habit of paying the Snap truck guy $100 a week for as long as it took, and my last weekly payment on the tool account was made about six weeks before I retired. The 651-656 top and bottom combo is about as tall as I am.I used to tell people that if your toolbox isn't as tall as you are, you're not really serious.
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