Acme Tools has dropped the price of this Dewalt ToughSystem DXL tool box combo, saving you nearly $200.
The Dewalt DXL 5-in-1 combo comes with a 4-wheel dolly, 2x single drawer tool boxes, 1x 2-drawer tool box, and a work top.
It’s regularly $1195, and is now $999 with free freight shipping.
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I have been working with a test sample for some months now, and have found it to be a well-engineered solution to very specific workshop needs. As Dewalt says, it’s not a modular tool box system, it’s a modular mobile workstation.
Want something different? Acme Tools also has a “buy more, save more” coupon savings offer on select Dewalt ToughSystem 2.0 and DXL tool boxes and accessories.
The $999 pricing closely matches the discounted pricing that Home Depot had on individual components last month. Home Depot is also having a “buy more, save more” sale on Dewalt DXL tool boxes right now.
NoDak Farming
Man $999 is an intense number to fathom when looking at four plastic drawers. If they could have marketed the plastic as being UV protected, and said the drawers had gaskets, it would have at least opened up their product to an extra consumer group sector.
“Very specific workshop needs”, indeed.
Stuart
I’ve got a purchased Milwaukee Packout combo in my office. With full retail pricing (I buy when there’s a sale):
Work Top: $55
4-Drawer: $199
3-Drawer (Multi-Depth): $179
2-Drawer: $156
Cart: $99
So that’s $688 if I were to pay full price today. I can fit more of different stuff in the Dewalt DXL combo. The DXL cart has huge wheels and double the footprint.
The two combos are very different with little overlap in how one would use them.
will
Still the $1200 original msrp and even $999 is alot of money for a plastic toolbox with castors. What’s so special about the dewalt dxl vs regular tough system? I’ve been slacking on keeping up with tools and the such so I ha e no idea what the dxl even is. Just another model so they can draw interest snd and jack up prices. I guess that’s every companies business model,but still a grand for that? Can’t you get an all steel model for less?
eee
The dxl is a lot wider and deeper. You can place 2 tough system. boxes on top of one dxl box. The dxl box is not that tall though so I’m not sure if you can store a circ saw in it . The boxes are heavy but still portable. I’ve been staring at the system as I need storage. I’m on tstak and that stuff is tiny compared to tough system or dxl. I can’t fit recips in that thing or larger jigs.
Stuart
It won’t for a full-size circular saw.
MFC
My local Home Depot liquidator just had three of these single and two drawer boxes for $120 a piece. He had them displayed prominently but they sat there for a couple weeks, so I finally decided to buy them but I had him knock the price down to $100 each and bought all three.
For $100 each I think it’s a good deal but these are crazy heavy. With nothing in them it’s hard to carry two at a time. So I’m going to put them into my shelving in my trailer and just use them as additional drawers. I don’t ever plan to move them around.
MFC
I actually have buyers remorse over these dxl drawers. The two drawer units can’t hold anything! They can’t fit a battery, unless it’s a 2ah or smaller. I don’t understand what you’re supposed to stick in here? I would have to remove everything from packaging to even fit it inside. A can of spray paint won’t fit. Caulking tubes can. I thought my pack out drawers were short, but these are even shorter!
jake
Hand tools? Sockets, wrenches, pliers, screwdrivers, files, hammers, saws, etc? I find shallow drawers very handy for a lot of things.
MFC
Yeah, but those types of tools get carried onto the jobsite every time I go on. If I filled these with heavy tools like that I wouldn’t be moving them at all. Both the Dewalt DXL and Toughsystem drawers are more shallow than packout and I find it limits their uses. My packout drawers are perfect for actual power tools and misc things. I much prefer the depth over dewalt, though I like the dewalt locking mechanisms more…
But yes, for mechanics or a home shop these are fine, but at this price point it would be better to get a mechanic tool cabinet.
sdsdv10
“saving you nearly $200.”
I don’t think this is saving anyone anything, as I’m guessing no one is buying this overpriced “stuff”. Don’t get me wrong I’m on team Yellow, but too much of their pricing lately is just completely out of line. I can only hope people vote with the wallets and make all the manufacture’s’ get their pricing structures back into the real world.
Stuart
I’ve asked around, and they are selling. I don’t think they’re selling at Home Depot, but people are buying and liking the system.
It’s not “out of line” for what you get – massive plastic tool boxes with fairly complex construction and structural reinforcing.
How much would it cost to buy the same storage volume from other pro-grade modular tool box systems?
There is a LOT one can criticize about the ToughSystem DXL products, but let’s be fair.
It launched at close to $1200 and is now nearly $200 less, presumably temporarily.
The tool boxes and accessories are massive, and the combo ships via freight. It’s pricy, but I think not unreasonably so.
Adam
Home Depot stores recently tagged these in yellow indicating clearance. Some people might be buying, but super slow movers in store.
will
I suppose it depends where yoy live. Sadly home depot lost out to menards and Lowes and closed within a year after building a brand new store. Now its storage for the local hospitals lol. I wish Menard would’ve lost but they have been around here as long as I can remember. Anyways it seems like some store will drop prices to clearance level while others dont drop the price all thst much. I recall when people were talking about tough system storage at their local stores going for basically pennies on the dollar. Here we had them at full price yet. Sucked looking at all of these posts with guys having dozens of containers because they were extremely cheap. So they probably made money or sit in people’s garages taking up space, because some of the pics were ridiculous with how many they had. Well I guess it will teach them to overstock these items. Damn I wish we had a home depot. The only place to buy quality tools around here is acme, since Lowes doesn’t carry much of anything and Renard is trash as far as battery operated tools, thr hand tools are solid.
NoDak Farming
“As Dewalt says, it’s not a modular tool box system, it’s a modular mobile workstation.“
Dewalt isn’t even pretending to compete with “other pro-grade modular tool box systems.”
As mentioned, it’s a solution to very specific workshop needs. And it’s possibly the first, in a new product category, that Dewalt is trying to invent. That is if we discount decades of stackable metal tool boxes that could be outfitted with a work surface and had wheels on the bottom.
I have nothing against Dewalt. And if they have the corporate horsepower to offer high priced niche products like this, then good for them. Somewhat famously, Steve Jobs once said that “a lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them”. And maybe this product is like that. For very specific customers.
Rx9
I bet these things are selling really well to federal contractors. Nothing is too expensive on Uncle Sugar’s dime. Remember Dewalt’s super fancy 36v nano line? I saw those on a government auction site a while back for a reasonable amount. Give it 10-15 years, you’ll be seeing a ton of these let go at a decent price.
John
You can purchase an entire 8′ x 10′ plastic shed with 740 cubic feet of storage space at Home Depot for $1,300 for goodness sake. Regardless of design complexity and tooling cost and material selection, there is no way a plastic box with stamped sheet metal parts should cost $1000.
Tojen1981
They’ll keep dropping too. Price point is crazy for modular storage. The local HD has six of the shallow drawer units at $249 on clearance and they still won’t move. Getting it into the sub-$200 range per unit will be the sweet spot to moving them.
Jeremy
Its just too expensive. You can go steel at this price point