Decent, inexpensive tool cabinets?
 

I'm going to be doing some renovations in my workshop, and I'm looking for some reasonable quality--but cheap--base cabinets for tool storage.

Here is a pic from Griots which is really what I want, but they get between $950 and $2200 each for those cabinets. For the sake of arguement, I understand that these may be worth every penny and may be superb quality.

Basically, I'm looking for the Harbor Freight version (but they don't sell them, I checked). :D I already have a rollaway tool box, what I need is something I can put a workbench top across.

Any ideas? sources?

http://www.rallystuff.com/images/griotscabinets.jpg

Lowes carries the Kobalt line. I've looked at them in the store and they seem very nice for a home garage. I plan on getting these in the next few months once I start my garage project.

Sears has always had a stationary cabinet base that is resonable. Especially if you can wait for a sale, which they have frequently. I can tell you that the drawer guides are friction, not bearing. They are not the best, especially if the drawers are loaded heavily. But, I've been using mine for better than 10 years now, so I can't complain.

Each module is 4 feet. Leave a couple of spaces below for a stool and/or air compressor and you will have 12-14' foot counter with 2 bases.

Costco has a really nice stainless dual cabinet setup with ball bearing drawer slides for $599. Very nice. Not sure if the configuration can be adapted to your needs. Maybe worth a look.

Keep looking in the newspaper or the "Swap Sheet". I am lucky out here, there is a place that sells used machinery and usually has high end cabinets that just require some cleaning and perhaps a bit of paint. As for my shop, I built all my lower cabinets (I love working with wood), complete with 100 lb capacity ball bearing slides that I bought from Mc Feeleys for $10 a pair.

dmoolenaar, and Rick: I thought about taking the casters off a rolling toolchest like the Kobalt or Costco ones, since they seem to be much more common at many different price points. Problem is that they are only 18" deep, where a true base cabinet will be more like 28-30" deep.

Zeke, thanks for the lead. Not exactly what I was looking for but there are several options that might work.

I figured there had to be some cheapo made-in-China version available somewhere...

If you can find them, which is getting increasingly hard to do, old dental cabinets make the best tool cabinets. I have an old dental cabinet with about 10 drawers of various sizes. Most of the drawers are exactly the right height for hand tools, with a couple large drawers for good measure. The cabinet is strongly built and is mounted on casters, so it can be moved around the garage.

sears! where america shops

call some of your local snapon/mac/cornwell dealers.........they almost always have nice traded in toolboxes for cheap, i picked up a ballbearing drawer top/bottom craftsman box for $80($300+new)
worth a shot to save some cash :D