Akro Mils 10744 44 Drawer Hardware and Craft Cabinet, Red and Gray
by Akro-Mils
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Akro Mils 10744 44 Drawer Hardware and Craft Cabinet, Red and Gray
Customer Review: Great for Lego
Summary: 4 Stars
I am a Lego enthusiast. I got this drawer cabinet to store Lego parts, sorted by type (more or less). I like it a lot.
The drawers have a little stopper on them so you can leave them hanging out, but at the same time it is easy to take out the drawer entirely. The back of the unit has some partitions that you can cut out and place in slots that are in each drawer, thus dividing any given drawer in two. However, I wish they included more of these partitions.
The drawers are semi-transparent (a bit "smoky"). I wish they were completely translucent. Perhaps that is more expensive to manufacture, though?
These Akro-Mils units also have grooves on the top/bottoms so if you buy multiple, you can stack them without them shifting on you. They also have holes in the back so you can mount them in a wall on a couple (or 4) screws, like you might do with a decorative shelf or picture frame, if you know what I mean.
All-in-all I'm pretty happy. I think they sell these for a fair price (roughly thirty bucks). I will be buying another one of these in the near future.
Customer Review: Broken plastic pieces
Summary: 1 Stars
I purchased 2 of the 24 drawer cabinets from one supplier and a 44 drawer cabinet from a second supplier. (The first supplier did not offer the 44 drawer model.) All three cabinets arrived with broken tabs laying in the bottom of the box. (These are the tabs that keep the drawers from falling out.) In addition, one of the UNBREAKABLE plastic drawers was cracked. I called one of the suppliers, (Wasserstrom), and they sent me a replacement cabinet. The problem was that it was worse than the others. Nearly half of the plastic tabs were broken. This is not a shipping or handling problem. The problem is that the process of installing the individual drawers at the factory is damaging the frame during assembly. This is a poor quality product.
I found a better choice at Lowe's. They carry a line of plastic drawer cabinets that are much better, and made in the USA too!! They have a 9 drawer cabinet that has the same size drawers as Akro-Mills and is stackable. They are much more robust in design and cost about the same ($1.22 per drawer vs. $1.17) as the Akro-Mills products.
Customer Review: 64 Dwr Cabinet is a good deal.
Summary: 5 Stars
Sometimes a picture can't convey everything about a product. Once you see it, the item may turn out to be better than expected. Such was the case with this 64 drawer cabinet. It is well constructed and sturdy, as plastic things go. The drawers open easily, and have stops built into each one to prevent it from accidentally falling out when pulled open. I have seen some types of plastic that doesn't adhere well when labels are applied, but mine are staying on the drawer fronts nicely, even though I used removable diskette labels cut to fit. Each drawer has molded interior slots to hold a single divider across the middle. Unlike some styrene drawers whose slots are cheaply made and the dividers fall out, the divider slots on these drawers are substantial. Some dividers are incorporated into the back surface of the cabinet, to snap out and use if desired. But I just cut some from a regular cardboard box panel, and they fit perfectly. All in all, I am very happy with the cabinet.Customer Review: Good organizer for the price
Summary: 4 Stars
For those who were wondering: the actual product dimensions are 20"x15"x6.25".
I bought this to organize my screws and such in the garage. It is great in that it has a lot of drawers and comes with some dividers (for both the large and small drawers-- I'm not sure why another reviewer said there weren't large dividers). There aren't many dividers, though, so if you anticipate needing lots you'll have to buy some.
The whole box is made of medium duty plastic, which is what I expected for the price. However, I gave it four stars rather than five because it isn't very well designed for free standing use. The dividers make up most of the back, so if you remove them you lose structural integrity and, I imagine, will have a bowed frame in no time if you put anything weighty in it. I plan to hang it on the wall, which I think will help to prevent bowing, but I'll be sure to update after it's been up for a while!
Customer Review: OK Storage, Could Be Better
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought this case for my garage to store small parts like washers and screws things like that. I think that its an ok storage case, but a bit too expensive for the quality. It is constructed from cheap plastic and I wonder if it will break down over time as cheap plastic does. Mine already has a small crack in the bottom right corner and has not suffered any abuse in my possession. I think I should have gone to Walmart or Lowe's and looked at some like other people here have mentioned. I do like being able to look throgh the drawers to see what is in them rather than labeling them like for a wood case. I think this case should have sold for about 15% less with the shipping to be a decent value.