Pit on Wheels!

[Alex Burman]

What our team uses primarily is a pit crate on casters (pictures attached). These are some of the best pictures I have but I'll try and locate a better pictures from my teammates. It has a large tool box to hold important tools and a hard flat work space. Another thing that we use to transport supplies to the pits is a gang box. We store any items that we couldn't fit into our pit crate there. And at the competition it stays on the back of our head engineers truck. It doesn't get to go to any competitions we can't easily drive to.

[Quantum Giant]

Up until last year, we used a welded frame that carried 3 Craftsman-style red tool boxes (the ones that have the flip-open top and three drawers). They were stacked vertically in the frame, and would slide out so that we could set them on the ground/table to access them. Last year, we got fancy and actually built a rolling tool cart/work-surface. I'm not sure of the exact dimensions, but one of the important things to remember is that any cart SHOULD BE ABLE TO FIT THROUGH A DOORWAY or elevator opening. Our cart has drawers of varying depths, as well as room for our traveling drill-press and our disk/belt combo sander. We have a vice mounted to the top, as well as a jeweler's anvil that accompanies us. I recommend heavy wheels (two casters and two hardmounted wheels) that are at least 5 inches in diameter.

I was in charge of packing the tools, and this thing made my life a lot easier.

[sanddrag]

Our shelving system worked superbly for us. Check out a magnificent picture at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/s...es/slide10.jpg