From the outside, it looks a lot like any other tool chest you might find in a finely equipped shop, minus the gaudy red paint job. This one’s naked: clad head to toe in bare stainless steel. Besides looking much classier than the old standby, you also won’t have to worry about it chipping or rusting, meaning it should be the shining jewel of your (otherwise filthy) garage for years to come.
Underneath that hulking steel chassis, there’s a heavy-duty caster system that’s a step above standard. The wheels are built to handle 4,000 pounds – likely more than the car you might use your tools to work on – and they include a suspension system to smooth out the rolling over rough surfaces. Granted, you’re not going to be plowing this thing down a gravel parking lot like an F-150, but those tiny yellow shocks just might give you hand when you’re careening over the divots and cracks in your garage floor.Inside, things start to get weird. For starters, the bottom left-hand drawer on this beast isn’t a drawer at all. It’s a discretely integrated fridge to squirrel away your lunch and other treats alongside your ratchets and wrenches. With 1.6 cubic feet of capacity, it’s only about the size of your basic dorm fridge, but that should leave plenty of room for a few cold brews to crack open for small shop victories, like celebrating the removal of that stripped bolt, or hearing a dead engine purr to life again for the first time.And if you need a little musical accompaniment for your accomplishments, the Kobalt chest will oblige in that department as well. The top of the chest flips away to reveal a stereo speaker system from Pioneer, complete with a head unit hiding behind a little stainless steel door near the top. Metallica, anyone?
And don’t forget the led lights.
