Tools can make you money, but toolboxes don’t! Why over-spend on a box to hold your tools? This US General 34-inch 6-Drawer Service Cart is nothing to sneeze at, that’s for sure. This is a very sturdy box with a powder-coated finish in 6 different colors. Four 5-inch industrial swivel casters help share the 1,200-lb maximum capacity of this @harborfreight toolbox. Ball-bearing slides allow for up to 100 lbs of payload in 5 of the drawers. The bottom, and largest, drawer includes double slides allowing for a 200-lbs max payload.
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Does the U.S general 34-inch six drawer Cart meet the needs for your shop There's a good chance it does let's find Out Well a week or so ago we released our New gift guide for 2022 for this Christmas and we included the U.S General six drawer service cart because We've heard so many Raves about it so we Went in the store checked it out and Really fell in love with this thing but Thought you know what we need to get This in the shop and actually check it Out so all fairness Harbor Freight did Send us this 34 inch card actually we Went and picked it up from our store but Anyway they did provide the cart for us And again Our intention was just to Include it in the gift guide but once we Started looking this over and again We've heard from you guys and gals that This is a great service card especially Compared to the higher priced items that Are sitting out there that most Typically kind of uh Congregate to that this is a great buy So this is 629 dollars normally so we Included this in our gift guide and as We kind of went through it did some Social media posts on it we thought this Is a really good quality cart let's do a Full review on it so here we are so Let's go ahead dive in we'll take some Closer looks at this uh we'll see how
It's built we'll talk about the Different features on it as well as how You can expand on this as well so let's Go ahead and get started so this is the US general six drawer 34 inch service Cart 34 inch meaning it's 34 inches wide We'll go over the details as far as Width and height here in a moment but as You can see you get basically five equal Height drawers and one deep drawer on The bottom that also has dual slides on It and we'll go over the the features of That and what they'll hold here in a Moment as well and then on the top here Obviously you have a worktop but that Flips up two gas struts are going to Raise that and one thing I really like About it is sitting straight up so it's Not sitting at a tilt like other service Carts that we have reviewed before uh Kind of you know has still a tilt Um kind of a positive tilt or would you Call that a negative tilt towards you so It doesn't go straight up but in this Case it does go straight up so we like That full length uh gas struts that are Going to take care of that now a couple Of things we noticed as soon as we kind Of open up this service cart from the Box Are the four rubber corners on every Corner so not just the front two corners And this is not a hard plastic this is Actually a rubber here a thick rubber
Mold that's going to protect that box From hitting any corners and again we Get it on all four corners of this box Not just the front side also has the U.S General logo there Embossed in the corner as well And then also noticeable where the large Five inch industrial casters with brakes On each wheel and all four corners are Swivel casters so you don't have two That are stationary and two that swivel All four swivel they also even have Grease zerks right there where you can Actually grease these bearings now that Grease is kind of going to run Everywhere but you can hook up your Grease gun grease that from time to time To make sure it swivels very easily but This 1200 pound rated car great to see That we have a nice five inch industrial Casters on all four corners and on this Car we get a blacked out very gloss Black U.S general logo and then we have A barrel key design it's even numbered There so you can order new keys if you Want to you get three keys with it so You know put one on your key ring and Hide a couple or put one away or Whatever but you should always have that Key available but you can't order new Ones if you need to very simple again Barrel key design Quarter turn locks the unit quarter turn Unlocks it and uh independent from that
Lock So from inside the box once the lid is Open you can lock and unlock the drawers So you can keep them unlocked and have The top down and have the top locked but Still have the drawers unlocked or vice Versa you can lock the drawers close to Close the top and obviously lock those Out of the drawer so they're not going To open and then right here what we have Is a pass-through which it comes with This steel block off plate but with a 10 Millimeter you can remove this nut you Have to do it from the inside So you can leave that on there if you Wanted to keep anybody out from there So once you remove that you see we have Like an electrical pass-through so we Can have our power strip in here with Our chargers and power tools and run our Electrical cord through here so that's Nice that knockout's already in there as Well as the rubber grommet also and then Down each side of the service cart are Places for uh screwdrivers and the Backspaces of course larger holes for Your pry bars and we'll see if the long Handles fit in there here in a moment so On the right and on the left we will Have those holes in there so that we can Store our longer pry bars and longer Screwdrivers You also get a very sturdy handle goes On with the four screws and by the way
This handle can go on either side of the Car you have nut search on either side So you put the handle wherever it makes Sense for you you can see here's the Opposite side of the cart and there's The four nut search so you can put that Handle over there or on the opposite Side let's get a few measurements on This cart So we'll start with the width here so All the way across right at 33 inches I Don't know why they call it 34 maybe They're including the bumpers on there But right at 33 inches for the width and From the front of the back of the box You're looking at right at 21 and three Quarter inches height from the ground is Going to be right at 46 inches to the Base top of the cart with the lid closed I think that adds probably Quarter inch or so Yeah it's a 40 inch and 3 8 46 and 3 8. So right at 46 Just to the top of the cart now that's With the Caster so the Box itself gonna Be right at 40. so right at 40 inches For just the Box height all right now Let's get a measurement on these drawers As we mentioned all of these are the Same except the bottom drawer and I'll Talk about something I really like about This and something I'm not crazy about But that it's easily fixable and you see Here it says pull latch left to open the
Drawer you can't just pull this open Even if it's unlocked so if there's a Slide under here and there's a bunch of Little squares and I'll show you that Here in a moment and you have to reach Up under here and you can do it anywhere Slide it over and then it opens that Drawer now a lot of people love that so I'm not counting against it I don't care For that but I'll show you an easy fix For it in fact I'll just go ahead and Show it to you now so when you open this Drawer again you reach up under here Slide it over there's a little plastic Lock right here that locks on the side Of that cabinet and when you slide it Over that's what unlocks it well to do Away with that you really you don't need Any tools or any thing just come down Here Push that down and slide this out And basically that's what's doing the Locking so I'm not going to count anything against That if you want it in there and you Want to leave it absolutely fine leave It in there but if you don't very easy Just to make that change as long as you Have the access to open it up and There's still a small detent that's Going to kind of hold that so you see It's not just going to flop out and not Stay it still stays so there is a small D10 in there there's not a big kind of a
Lock that you feel but you definitely Kind of fall feel it fall into place But again you don't have this to work With but if you do like it Slide it back in and you're still locked All right so let's open up the top Drawer here and width of the drawer just Short of 28 inches in fact let's give it Internal Dimensions 27 and 5 8 of an Inch width And one of the cool things about this Drawer is let me get Get the measurement first and so right At 19 inches a little more than 19 Inches in fact it kind of rolls back Into here a little bit so you really Probably have 19 and a quarter inches if You can get by this little lip right There but one of the things I really Like about these drawers is look how far They come out the the drawer slides Don't stop short where you have to kind Of dig in there to find something or you Got a big case and you can't get it out They come almost flush in fact this lip Does come flush with the front of this Box so you can get things out if you Need to with no problem at all you get That full length opening and by the way 100 pound drawer slides so these ball Bearing slides are not only going to Work smoothly they're also going to hold 100 pounds per drawer and I believe the Bottom drawer is a double slider that'll
Hold 200 pounds take a closer look at These drawer slides very smooth and by The way if you ever go to move these Boxes it makes it much easier just to Remove the drawers makes the Box a lot Lighter and you don't tip it over and All you have to do is lift this side up Over here on the opposite side it'll be Pushed down and you can slide these off The rails And go set that drawer aside and then to Put it back in you just line it up Slide it in and you're good to go One thing we didn't do is we didn't get A drawer height so internal height of The drawer three and three quarters of An inch looks like closer to three and Seven eighths here on the front lip so Definitely at least three and three Quarter inches of clearance in the Box Really probably Almost four inches of clearance to the Top of this and there's nothing else That's blocking that on the inside And let's check out this bottom drawer Side Dimensions should be the same Yeah so 27 and 5 8 on the internal And then a little more than 19 on front To back but height wise you're going to Get six and three quarter to seven Inches of height on that bottom drawer And then this bottom drawer as we were Mentioning we get dual ball bearing Slides so that's going to hold double
The weight so 200 pound drawer so all Your heavy stuff your power tools your Ball joint pullers your pullers all that Type of stuff or your ball joint press Your pullers those those can go here in The bottom to be the heavy drawer and You don't have to worry about it I'm not sure if we ever check the uh the Height here inside the box and so we'll Cover that maybe we did so right at Seven inches and just to answer some Questions I know a lot of service carts You know they will handle your shorter Pry bars no problem at all your shorter Handles but a lot of you have the longer Handle pry bars and so here's my long Handle Craftsman here I'm gonna fit in here no problem at all And then even a longer handle Milwaukee As well So those are going to fit in Top's going To close no problems So you have your long handle pry bars That's not a problem still going to fit Under lid you can still lock it up you Don't have to have it hanging off the Outside and something else I was Noticing just the pure sturdiness of This card it really is a very stable Cart and I looked at the thickness here On the edges of the actual lid as well As like you see here and I and I can't Answer for the complete card I know a Lot of times they'll use different gauge
Steel but I just took my Um my gauge measure here that I have for Welding and it's definitely not 14 gauge Uh or actually I think it might be 14 Gauge six it's definitely thicker than 16 obviously eighth inch would be uh Kind of your 11 gauge Um so it's somewhere between 11 and 14. It's probably 14 since the powder Coating is going to take some thickness There so probably made from 14 gauge Steel but definitely not made from 16. There's a service cart next to this when We checked and it it's mostly 18 gauge Stuff so and not knocking any other Service car that's not what I'm saying I'm just saying this thing you can tell By the weight of it as well as the Sturdiness of it and now that I'm Checking with my gauge here that it's Made from some some decent gauge again I'm thinking probably 14 gauge steel to Build this thing so aside from just kind Of making this your own with different Accessories and tools and you know Shelves and things like that there's Also a couple of tips that you can do One in particular when you buy a new box Like this whether it's a US general not They're pretty much all about the same When it comes to this let me show you so Just about all these tool carts service Cards toolboxes come with some type of Underlayment for the drawers and for the
Top as you see here and most of the time If not all the time they just kind of Laid in there and it's typically a Thinner material and I'm fine with just Using this you may go to something Thicker that you really like that has Some grip to it or whatever but here's My tip spend a couple of bucks if you Don't already have some some just some General adhesive some spray adhesive and Glue these things down really quick you Don't have to use a ton you don't have To get it perfect just something now the Top here is not going to be as big of an Issue as the drawers but you know you Put stuff in the drawers you slide them In and out you slam them and next thing You know you come back and everything's Kind of wrinkled up and all towards the Front or all usually all bunched up at The back and this thing's all wrinkled And it never lays flat again Let me just show you how easy this is And by the way don't pull it out don't Pull it out to do this leave some leave It in there and even put something down To kind of hold it in place Fold it back halfway you want to spray The metal or the surface And then spray the liner and again That's probably enough if you want to Get real close and get real accurate you Can but we're just wanting to make it You know stick in place and then you
Want to let that tack up for a minute or So and then just kind of lay this back Over don't let it wrinkle up you should Be able to just kind of let it lay back Over and then you kind of press it down And you can get as detailed as you want To Then I'll come back over now that we've Done half of it fold that over And again typically I'd let that tack up But I'm not going to worry about it Now let's do a drawer so we'll do the Same thing here on the drawer open it up Fold it halfway over And it's literally that quick again you May want to tack that let it tack up a Second For a minute That's the way spray adhesive is Supposed to work you're supposed to let It tack up Get it good and dry and then fold it Over but Who's got time for that anyway so now Again that's not going to slide you can See I'm pushing on that it's not going To move everywhere it's going to stick In place even you got those heavy tools In there and you're not going to get Frustrated it's not going to get bunched Up and wrinkled where you can't use it There's definitely a lot of reasons why We included this in our Christmas gift Guide for this year which by the way if
You haven't seen that you ought to check It out there's a lot of great tools and Gifts in there and gift ideas for you Anyway the U.S general cart again kind Of surpassed where we thought this was Going to be again we've heard about it For for a while now we just hadn't Actually had it in the shop to kind of Compare it to what we've seen as well as Just to fill the quality of it and see The quality of it seriously a great Service cart full-size service cart from U.S general from Harbor Freight normal Price is 629 dollars on this we did see When we first listed this in our gift Guide that I believe it was somewhere Around 100 bucks off it was five Something so keep an eye out for the Coupons and for the cells and things Like that because you may be able to get This at closer to 500 bucks or maybe in Even in the in the or maybe even in the Mid fives but regardless it's still a Great deal especially compared to the Other carts that are out there even the Half size three drawer and two drawer Carts a lot of times are going to cost That or more and again the components That this is built with pretty Impressive and then you can kind of make It your own and add to it as you want to So be sure to check us out on Instagram Facebook Twitter and even Tick Tock hey If you don't mind would you hit that
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