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Offline Muddy

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Toolbox Value.
« on: August 02, 2024, 12:54:57 PM »
Hey folks. These two boxes are coming up at Auction. Just wanted to see what everyone thought their value is or what you'd pay for them.

The one on the left is being auctioned in two pieces and the one on the right is being auctioned as a set.

I feel the lower roller in the left is lower quality or newer manufacturing then the others.

Offline Yadda

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Re: Toolbox Value.
« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2024, 01:55:27 PM »
The local Craig's List in Houston these types of tool boxes are posted between $100 to $350.  Me personally, even if you really want them, I wouldn't pay over $100 for either of them.
« Last Edit: August 02, 2024, 06:57:31 PM by Yadda »
You might say I have a tool collecting problem....

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Re: Toolbox Value.
« Reply #2 on: August 02, 2024, 04:13:09 PM »
I'm with yadda, tool boxes dont hold value much at all
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Offline Bill Houghton

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Re: Toolbox Value.
« Reply #3 on: August 02, 2024, 05:48:05 PM »
I had one of those rollaways (bottom cabinet) with the cave, like the one on the right.  Hated it.  You had to crouch down and fossick about in the dark space, looking for the thing you needed, which was invariably at the back.  If it's big enough that it needs to go in a space like that, it's big enough to make shelves for.

It might make sense in a setting in which you have to lock up your tools when you go home so they don't get stolen/misused by the idiots on the other shift, but not in the home shop.

The rollaway I inherited from Dad, which was in the gas station he operated for a couple of years in my teens (before Texaco dropped the lease on the building and, at the same time, his franchise, all with 30 days' warning), originally had a cave, but the manufacturer had offered drawer inserts, and some prior owner had installed them.  Not as good as drawers built in from the start - they're not quite as deep as the regular drawers - but better than a cave.

Can't speak to value; I had a Kennedy rollaway I paid $30 for, with some tools in it, at the end of someone's yard sale, with a cave, later replaced by a Kennedy with drawers all the way that I paid $75 for at an estate clearance house.  I've even purchased a couple of boxes new, when I was unable to find the configuration I needed in the wild.

Offline Yadda

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Re: Toolbox Value.
« Reply #4 on: August 02, 2024, 06:58:58 PM »
Wow! Killer deals on Kennedy boxes. You must be in the right place at the right time.
You might say I have a tool collecting problem....

Offline Bill Houghton

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Re: Toolbox Value.
« Reply #5 on: August 02, 2024, 07:24:14 PM »
Yes, but those two were separated by a decade or so; and I walked past plenty of junk rollaways during that decade.