The biggest PITA was the HF chests were not square. Sheetmetal was I think 1 gauge thinner for the HF. Even the drawer locking mechanism was different. Other than the mounting holes for the handles, the construction was completely different, leading to enormous frustration in building and getting the base to fit. The two HF cabinets i got were side by side in their stock room but had slightly different SKU numbers. I removed them for my application but they would not have handled a very heavy load. Here’s what i found: the HF casters were total crap. It should be noted that John is a quality guy and used Snap-On tool cabinets for his builds. The equivalent Snap-Ons were about 10x the price. Made the top out of two sheets of 3/4” glued and screwed particle board with a tempered Masonite top skin, urethane varnished. I removed the wheels and put them on a wooden base to get the final height I wanted.

I wanted to build a base cabinet for a garage work bench similar to what John Coker shows on his website and decided to use a couple of Harbor Freight 8-drawer rolling tool chests.

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