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So what do you think when you read the title?

1) It is big, well as big as 16" deep gets you.

2) It is Awesome, sounds awesome to me.

3) It is a box, yes a tool box from Plano Plastics.

The actual size is 16.25" x 13.25" x 8", made of plastic in the good old USA.

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I think I have about 8 of this same model in use and just got two more here in December. I have a large selection of Plano boxes, boy I would hate to guess wrong here but lets set it at about 25 other kinds. From that you will no doubt guess I like them, and yes that is true. I store all sorts of things in them and they work very well for me. Of course it doesn't hurt that they have an outlet store about 30 minutes or so away.

These boxes were purchased in a Menards store when they on sale for $8.99 and there might have been a refund too. Going by memory here so take the price for what it is worth.

One of the boxes is for some of my lathe "stuff". It had gotten spread around in drawers, small tool box, and tool tote.

Here is the picture of the "stuff" I want to put in the box, still a few other parts I need to find but this is most of it at this point.

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In it goes, and with room to spare!

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I would rate them 5 out of 5. So far they are the best solution to my storage issues I've found. Next year I think I'm making a special shelf for about 20 boxes to try and co-located them for more convenience.

Ed

Plano makes good stuff. I have a couple of their tackle boxes.

I've been thinking of re-purposing a tackle box to hold router bits. Right now I keep them in a plastic ice cube tray in a drawer now but over time the bits have gotten larger and some can no longer reside in a ice cube tray.

berry wrote:Plano makes good stuff. I have a couple of their tackle boxes.

I've been thinking of re-purposing a tackle box to hold router bits. Right now I keep them in a plastic ice cube tray in a drawer now but over time the bits have gotten larger and some can no longer reside in a ice cube tray.

I did not know that they 'grew'. What pray tell have you been feeding them?:D

When I first saw the pic, I thought of those plastic file boxes that you can find at garage sales. They are similar in shape and size, but not as heavy a plastic I'm sure. They are designed to hold hanging files. I use one with hanging files for my sheets of sandpaper, sorted and labelled by type and grit. I use another one to store my SS saw blades. They fit just right on a pair of slotted boards in the bottom.

I like Berry's idea for holding router bits in a tackle box. Sounds good to me. Now I'll have to find one in a garage sale and dump out all the old fishing lures.

I have a metal file box that I "file" my sandpaper sheets in! I got it at a garage sale too, but that was 25 years ago... I had to give up the garage sale hobby when we ran out of room to store the good stuff. Our first apartment was furnished in "Early Garage Sale", in fact we still have some of that stuff in use today 40+ years later.

Ed

fiatben wrote:When I first saw the pic, I thought of those plastic file boxes that you can find at garage sales. They are similar in shape and size, but not as heavy a plastic I'm sure. They are designed to hold hanging files. I use one with hanging files for my sheets of sandpaper, sorted and labelled by type and grit. I use another one to store my SS saw blades. They fit just right on a pair of slotted boards in the bottom.

I like Berry's idea for holding router bits in a tackle box. Sounds good to me. Now I'll have to find one in a garage sale and dump out all the old fishing lures.