Harbor Freight US General 5 Drawer Mechanics Cart COMPLETE Assembly Guide (NO Music)
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Just picked one up for $189! My first legit tool box/cart and I'm looking forward to being able to find my shit.
I got mine for $151 yesterday. Gray color. Purchased the display model
@@valentyn9485 the gray with the black emblems/drawer handles is slick
Oh you said an ugly word !
Damn dude mine at harbor was $250!
Wow I paid 300 with tax, what kind of deal did you get 😂 I did get the series 3 which is the latest version
Picked one up today for 216$ with tax for their parking lot sale!! Gonna build it right now
Assembled mine yesterday. I have a bit of a gap on mine between the bottom of the box and the supports. Do you?
The info @8:20 on the cross support lips going OVER the front/rear support bars was WRONG, at least for me. Done this way, the holes no longer lined up and I started forcing/loosening/forcing things to line up. Another vid showed the cross supports UNDER the front/rear supports….I tried it that way and everything lined up perfectly. I believe that is why at the end of your build video you found a puzzling gap.
Got this Saturday after Black Friday for $180.it’s great quality.
Thank you for posting this.
Great video, helped me assemble mine in an hour
I just got one in orange for $189 on Black Friday along with the Quinn master tech tool set for $300 instead of $400. I absolutely love it, but that box was a pain. Mine came with not multiple bolts pre-stripped and a lot of the holes wouldn’t line up without some force and rounding.
Thanks for video. tip: If you leave all the box bolts slightly loose until you get all the fasteners in the holes it's much easier to line everything up. Then go through and torque them all down
this is the way
Pro Tip: The draws do come out. It makes it a little easier to assemble if you're all alone.
Great tip!
Yep. Little tangs inside the track. You push one side down and pull the other side up and the drawer will pull out forward.
I put the whole thing together with a 1/4 inch ratchet with a 13 mm socket. You only need the screwdriver for the little handle. Good video, thanks
Some versions of this cart use the longer bolts in other places (tray, handle) and inconsistently refer to them as “long bolts” while others include 4 fewer and refer to them as “castor bolts.” Also, you might find four of the locking nuts already attached to the gas struts, presumably to protect the threads. Some have that little black bag with the keys and others don’t. I just assembled an orange one and a blue one which had these differences. The last one I did had the nylon locking nuts packaged with the longer bolts and failed to distinguish them anywhere in the instructions. You couldn’t go by the hardware count to distinguish them either since they weren’t all in the bag and most had one extra, giving seemingly nonsense numbers when you try to figure which is which.
This is a genuine question. How do you know so much about this tool cart? 😂
@@Slasher4446-q3e LOL! Frustration.
The first was a huge frustration. The second was notably different in a few ways. Both had problems with the instructions. I watched some assembly tip videos before doing the second but the differences caused even more frustration.
I also ended up downloading newer and older versions of the manual trying to figure out the item numbers of discontinued side shelves. Got my orange and yellow shelves for $15. ;)
Man, your name is uncanny since my twin brother and I are Julian Emmett Turner II and James Evans Turner. I go by my middle name to avoid confusion with my father and my twin brother goes by his middle name because I do. “Emmett ‘n’ Evans” rolls off the tongue better and, being twins, people are often addressing both of us. Yes, his middle name is a last name since he was named after the US Virgin Islands’ “Governor Evans” from several decades ago.
Thank you. Very helpful
Awesome thanks for this video bud
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for this, I am buying one of these this Friday and the guy said that the series 3 was harder to put together then the series 2 so I was looking for a video on someone putting it together and found your channel. Thanks for sharing this.. the hardest part the guy said was getting the main part of the box in without a 2nd person helping you. Glad to see you can do it alone.
Just got mine in gray for $189 looks amazing
@@Shadetree_Mechanic me too! i just left the store
@@m.t.v.7934 same lol
@@Shadetree_Mechanic I got the slate gray one too. I called this morning and asked if they could out it aside for me and they did. Lucky because they only had 1 left. Only down side with the gray is all the add-on except for the side tray do not come in the gray color, but that's okay
@@m.t.v.7934 damn I didn’t even think about that. But the gray goes so hard though.
Watched the video cause i got mine black friday but havent put it together yet. Thanks for the tips! Needed a time frame for assembly so i know its not somethings to start doing an hour before i head to work.
Haha it took me so long to realize the top has to be open to open the drawers
Thank u very much for the great video 🙏
Glad you liked it!
Your gas struts are upside-down according to the instructions but it’s actually easier to assemble that way. I used a socket wrench in there and got stuck since the threaded part straightened as I tightened, pulling my wrench in line and turning the directional selection the wrong way. From there I could only loosen the nut with no clearance to remove the wrench or change the direction. I had to slip a pick in there to move the selector and even once tightened it was very difficult to remove. I’m lucky my sockets weren’t any tighter. You can put them in backwards to avoid this or if you need space in the central area when closed but they are more likely to hit screwdrivers and such in the side channels.
There was no left side or right side of the cart until you put the box on at step 8. :) That’s where you decide which side you want the tray and handle on since the box can go on either way. The instructions already told us to put the tray on the same side as the locking swivel castors and it will tell us to do the same with the handle. So, yeah, on Step 8 the instructions should’ve clarified that the handle will also go on the swivel/tray side and made it clear that we are committing to have the handle one side or the other… since this is actually before we get to the handle step.
Thanks for Video- my lessons learned: 1. So frustrated by drawers not opening. Turns out there is a finger bar unser each handle that U slide the right and they work just fine. 2. unit does not fully square up until near the last step when you put on the 4 inch top interior brackets. think through this and put the handle and struts on last. 3. since bolt heads are smooth, seat them and done pressure them too much from the nut side. hammer the heads in a bit if they won't seat on own. 4. note drawers will not open if top is closed.
9:34 as a featherweight skinnyguy, I did it solo exactly like this. Protip: Use the cardboard it shipped with to protect everything from the ground and lay the cart and top along the long side so you can slide the two halves together. WAY easier and it saves your back.
I also drilled out the rivets on the back side so I could pull the drawer locking mechanisms out when the lid is closed. I'm not as worried about security and if I need to I can bolt or rivet everything back together later.
The little tray usually goes under the handle because if you buy the Optional lift up tray it would be in the way that's why its good to put it on the handle side.
My chest doesn’t rest on the support rails. In fact, your video is the only one who follows the instructions correctly. The side short cross member piece is on top of the front and back ones. That being said, it creates a gap between the chest and the support rail. If rest the front and back support rails on the side ones, you fill the gap due to the thickens of the metal.
When I try it with the short sides on top, the holes don't line up. They only line up when the short sides are under the long piece so I built it that way.
@@royalbenson1832…..I found that TRUE, also ☝️….cross support lip goes UNDER the front/rear support bars, everything lines up perfectly that way!
Same here.
My side-support rails are under the front/rear rails.
My holes do not align the way the instructions specify.
About the casters. If you're having trouble, put them together first without the washers then go back and add them. It made a huge difference for me
Thank you! I put the braces on wrong now i know why its lopsidded.😂❤
Same 😂😂😂😂
Trying to find 2 more swivel casters for it so i have 4 any recommendations?
Can you provide the assembled dimensions? I'm mainly curious about the width after attaching the handle and side tray. Depth with drawers closed would be nice too. I've got an odd sized nook in my shop, would love to find out if this thing will fit there. Thanks!
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Thank you doing this. well done. I have an orange version coming at the end of this month and will be using yours and Dale Lucid’s vids to help me get the assembly right. You may want to use the vocabulary “13 millimeters” instead of “number 13” during your tools listing (which I appreciate you including up front), as some folks may not take you seriously otherwise.😊
They’re also 1/2” bolt heads not 13mm
How you face the drawers matter. From my handle, the drawers are on the left side, which makes approaching broken machines easier
I just got the model that does not have the tool tray and assembly is ok but man having a ratching wrench will make a huge difference for the bolts by the hinges for the top lid.
They confuse the screws for the castors with the upper support screws for the cabinet. I went to the hardware store and purchased longer screws for the castors.
Mine came with holes drilled with such big offset issues that the tool chest part literally won’t rest on the cross supports. One of the drawers won’t lock because it’s bent, and the top lid was clearly bent before it was ever even packed because one of the rivets popped out and there’s like a half of a centimeter of bend behind the brackets. Really sucks because I got this for $189 as a closeout and it was the last one at the store so now I have no idea how I’m going to get a replacement. It’s a pain in the ass to have to take it back to replace. Hopefully they take care of me. otherwise I’m buying the $15 protection plan and then the second the series 3 comes out. I’m going to punch this thing with a hammer and go get the series 3 for free.
I’m probably going to get that impact you recommended but I don’t suggest using it with carriage bolts.
The square part just above the threads needs to seat into the slotted hole to prevent it from turning as you tighten it down, which you can only do properly with hand tools. The paint in the holes was too thick on one of my carts which doesn’t give way for the bolt to seat/index until you start getting tight… right where an impact tool will just dent the slotted hole without aligning the square piece. Even when it fits fine you have to hold it there while tightening it down then back it off a bit so that you can align the next one. Only give the final turns when you have all four in enough to index all the carriage bolts. At that point you can use an impact but you are only half a turn or so from tight anyway.
Just picked one up for my woodshop to hold my hand tools.
Probably a dumb question but how do you keep the bolts from casters to stay put while you tighten them. The whole thing moves when i go to tighten them.
Not a dumb question at all. I learned if you can’t press the smooth head all the way flush w the surface then hammer it once or twice- it will stick in there- when you ratchet it, don’t put pressure down in the nut and push the head back out.
I have 3 of these boxes. It might be one of the best boxes around $200.
Are the cylinders upside down?
Paid $279.99 2 weeks ago. They had to order it. When I came in to pick it up they had it on sale for $199.99. Wouldn't give me the discounted price. Love it!!! LoL
the wheel screws keep moving when u tighten them... thats the trickiest part‼️
I learned if you can’t press the smooth head all the way flush w the surface then hammer it once or twice- it will stick in there- when you ratchet it, don’t put pressure down in the nut and push the head back out.
From doing mine the bolts for the caster whoever thought that Carriage bolts and jam nuts BAD IDEA!! Also watch when you put it together you don't put the side rails upside down. We just got it all together went to put ion the top and it doesn't match up like it should. Not sure if all of these carts are like this but this will be THE LAST ONE like this! I'll just still to buy bottom tool boxes. This assembly is a nightmare, the box seems nice but the assembly, not so nice
It’s crazy I had to come to a video to put this together this has the worst directions possible for this box 😂
It's not the worst I have seen, if you want to see really bad, check out the Evolution table Saw video I recently did. 10/10 bad.
I just paid $170 for mine the last of the 2 series #3 coming in
It sounds like dive bombers in the background.
Instructions say you don’t need an impact, however, can’t get the nut to thread down far enough on the caster bolts whatsoever, probably have an inch gap, can’t fix it whatsoever
Instructions suck saying the chest rests on the support rails! My ass 😂
Mine doesn’t either. For it to rest on the support rail, I’d have to have the long support rail on top of the short one ( the instructions say to do the opposite).
Take the drawers out it's easier to pick up
About to call and demand a refund and that they come pick it up.
This is such a massive pain in the dick to put together. I'm missing bolts, the frame seems warped because it's not properly lined up and the top won't fit in to be secured with the bolts I do have.
For $269 they need to do better. This is just sad.
I watched a few videos on how to assemble this before I started, it's not easy.
@@UltimateToolReviews Mine is warped. The box itself, not the frame. Looking at the front, the right side sits flush like it should, but as you move to the left it gets more recessed. It's the opposite on the back.
Waiting for an answer from HF about if they'll ship a replacement box or if I have to drive 82 miles round trip to the HF I went to buy it from because my local one never has anything in stock, these included.