Rollaway reinvented?
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXo33kJIsEs

Thoughts anyone? Would a pro prefer this as a work station?

Great concept. Priced at 17k I would expect stainless or titanium.

I expect that we will see other manufactures making similar offerings soon.

She did mention a slide-out table.
It would have to be very large with the amount of detritus usually piled up.
And tools not included?

Interesting but her tool cabinet has a much smaller footprint than a regular roll away box.

Depending on how you look at it that's either good or bad.

My knoweldge and experience in a commercial repair setting is limited but I don't see that being all that useful in the typical serivce station. Space is generally limited in those places, floors are uneven or have drains, etc.

I can see where a guy like Jay Leno may buy a few as he has a ton of room and perfectly flat floors or a car dealership where there is a ton of room, flat floors and lots of space.

She says in the video the system was designed for Military, Aviation, Nuclear where they need to know every single wrench is put back.

All in all kind of neat I don't see it being practical for me.

Looks really cool and useful . I cannot wait for snap on to come out with one so I can pay 40 k for it .
I would be worried about it tipping over .
I love how they laid everything out .
I have witnessed a few tool boxes tipping over going over a shop drain . It was not a pretty sight. If mine fell on you, it would kill you. I have no idea how much weight is in it, but its harder to push around than a small import car .
My snap on guy seems miffed at me that they cannot sell me a 25 k tool box. I will never do that again .

I saw the on a SEMA review video. Seems like that is an attempt to solve a problem that doesn't exist. Anything that needs space to the side takes up that space, so why not just use the space on a permanent basis?

Now if you're talking about something totally portable and dedicated to being portable (and stable), that will tuck into a tight space until needed. It should come with its own forklift or self contained power movement system.

Like Fred is indicating, it needs outriggers.

I could see that being practical in an areospace type setting, where a specialized mech must work in many distant locations throughout the day and must keep specialized tool close to him/her. But a real factory would probably already have that set up.

Maybe there is an auto shop with one lift being shared by a bunch of day/night mechs. Whoever is using the lift at the time could roll their own closet out of the pile crammed in the corner.

It's kinda like that combo wrench/saw/screwdriver/hammer or that offroad/racer/minivan.
Great idea but does it do the job?

The tipping part seems like an accident waiting to happen..1200lbs is enough to ruin a career.

It is pretty cool, but in my garage it would be just open against the wall all the time.

In an environment where all tools must be accounted for at end of shift I can see advantages to this type of 'box'. The tip-over possibility is too risky for being used close to anything with significant value, be it a car or spacecraft.

I saw that thing on a SEMA video, too. My impression was that once again, designing something to be "the ultimate" rarely meets the original goals, and often just becomes bloated and far too expensive.

I've seen aircraft mechanics use A frame pegboards, here's a couple of versions that I found on the interwebs. Totally impractical if you value floor space, but in a hanger maybe a good way to keep track of the tools. Cheap, too. The commercial one is 400 bucks, the homemade one could be made for a few bucks depending on what kind of crap you have laying around the shop.

Then there's this slidey thing that someone invented that might be handy if your work is at a station and you don't need to roll the cart.


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I'm still fine with the look and usefulness of a regular 3 box chest.

Sure. It has a small foot print when closed, but you need over two and a half feet on each side to be clear of anything so you can pull out the panels. That puts you up to around 8 feet. The width of a very big conventional tool box.
The other issue I see is having that thing open in a shop setting. Everything is just a little too out in the open for security. And, if you wanted to step away for 15 minutes, it would take you a couple of minutes to close it all up and lock it, instead of a few seconds locking up a conventional box.
Having a bunch of tools at eye level on a tool board type of lay out is attractive though.

Don't forget the $40,000 worth of Snap-On tools to fill it up.

Each drawer at least

How many 10mm sockets will it hold???

Ages ago, when I worked at Boeing, every toolbox was locked at all times. To unlock it, you used your ID. Every drawer was shadowboxed for each tool. When you pulled a tool out, you replaced it with a chit, that had your name and picture on it.

With the contrasting shadowboxing, you could look at any drawer and see a tool missing. With her system, multiple tools lined up, I could see a tool go missing easily and that means it’s FOD on the plane somewhere.

And while compact folded up, it’s just as big or bigger than a standard rollaway box, but you have no worksurface.

That said, it’s out of my price range.

Foreign Object Damage. That's bad, right?

My personal thoughts as a retired accountant/semi retired mechanic is that I don't need to go fast and when I have to for an eight hour day I'm not pleased.

Just sayin'..........ever go to a grocery store after a remodel? One you have shopped at for years? It triples your time getting the correct stuff for about six months.

Foreign Object Debris is anything in the plane that was not designed to be there. Mr Higgins could explain what happens better than I could.

Speaking of FOD, when I rebuilt my 930 engine, my timing light was off and the timing was retarded. I went for a drive during the break in and something in my new exhaust broke loose and hit my brand new turbo charger. With such tight tolerance, it didn’t take much to totally destroy the turbo, as seen in the picture below.

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