Stanley FatMax 4-in-1 Mobile Work Station
The Stanley FatMax Mobile Work Station is a handy roll around tool box with plenty of room to store your tools, camping gear, or just about anything you need in a convenient mobile tool box.
Ease of Use/Performance: 24/25
Convenience/Storage 25/25
Appearance/Design 23/25
How much I enjoy 23/25
Total: 95/100
My Stanley FatMax has been absconded, stolen, hijacked, my wife will not give it back but actually it makes a great roll around box for her craft show sales. The Stanley FatMax is a mobile storage and tool box with three sections for storing tools or other items but also has wheels for ease of transportation.
The Stanley FatMax is 29 inches tall, 22 inches wide and 16 inches deep with the wheels being 7 inches in diameter and the handle extending 9 inches above the box. The three compartments are about 10 by 18 inches and from bottom to top 15 inches, four inches and six inches deep.
The handle extends using two push button latches and makes the wheels easily usable for transporting the mobile work station around. The larger seven inch diameter wheels makes tugging the box through snow or on gravel, up and down sidewalks, curbs and across door thresholds much easier.
My wife took the FatMax tool box for her craft shows, she has her cash box, a couple of boxes with her crafts and all her set up and sales displays. You can carry the FatMax around in the back of your van or truck, or use it in your garage or basement for tools or other things.
The FatMax makes a perfect tool box but it also would be great for craft shows or sales on the road like those Tupperware and Watkins sellers. You could also use it as a storage box for hobbies likes modeling or radio control planes or helicopters to store all those tools for working on your hobby or for that on the go box at the side of the flying field.
A tool box that has the roller wheels and opens easily without having to take the box off a dolly makes a great portable solution for many needs. The FatMax Work Station has three main compartments along with a removable tray in the wheeled storage box that weighs about twenty pounds empty.
The storage box has a front latch that locks and unlocks the two lower sections and allows the box to roll open, the bottom units are part of a slide system along with the wheels. The handle and wheels of the work station will roll backward when you open the box with the latch while the bottom storage area stays put.
When you open the work station the lowest box stays where it was placed and the back wheels as part of the slide system rolls backward to open the bottom and middle compartments. The top compartment has a lid secured with two latches and this is where the storage tray is placed.
The lid has a V groove used for holding pipes or lumber for cutting and the top and two main compartments also has loops for attaching locks. The main compartment loops are plastic but the top has the loops as part of the latches for a way to secure any more expensive gear that would fit.
The main bottom compartment can easily fit a good amount of tools like a Sawz-All, battery powered drill/driver and a battery powered circular saw all at once. The middle compartment can fit a good variety of hand tools or other items and is compartmented if you want to use it for things like nails and screws or plumbing parts.
The plastic dividers installed will convert the middle compartment into eight or less storage areas that you can rearrange into fewer areas of larger sizes if you want. The middle compartment would make a nice area for parts or tools that you don’t use as often or for things like replacement parts of your airplane or helicopter.
The top lid cannot be opened while the handle is in the up position, to move the handle up and down you unlock it with the two latches that are pushed toward each other. The lid opens and stays opened parallel to the ground so you can set lighter things or single tools on it or even the removable tray if it does not have a lot of heavy tools inside.
The hinges are plastic and the body is also a plastic like PVC but will give a little if too much weight is put on hinges, you can flex the compartment sides some. The top when the removable tray is taken out makes a great place for the main tools or items you will use often like screw drivers, pliers or wrenches.
The Stanley FatMax when open looks like a three tiered tool box and the removable tray is the carry around tray for working away from your work station. The box can easily carry a full set of tools like the ones I use for around my house but my wife has taken the work station for her use.
She has her cash box, about ten jewelry display stands and her price signs, table cloths, clips for securing the cloths and other items like plastic chains for hanging items on. The work station makes a perfect solution for her as it has the portability with the wheels and with her stuff stored away it is not so heavy that she cannot lift it out of our van.
She has a couple of boxes in the FatMax with her jewelry she sells like those plastic boxes fishermen store lures and tackle in along with her tools for repairing and adjusting her jewelry she sells. She keeps the work station in our front hall closet for handy access and drags it to craft shows easily by herself if she needs to.
The Work Station makes the perfect portable storage solution for her to take along to craft shows to sell her jewelry like her fishing lure necklaces and bracelets. The work station would also make a great box to take with for hobbyists like radio control enthusiasts that fly airplanes or helicopters.
The bottom of the box could hold larger items like starters, fuel or batteries while the parts and tools could be held in the upper areas. You could also; okay the main use would be for tools like my reciprocating saw, drill/driver and circular saw all fit nicely into the main bottom compartment.
The middle box would make a great place to store batteries for the battery powered tools and screws, nuts and bolts for working on projects around the home. The top compartment is the hand tool area with the removable tray for carrying to areas where the work station would not be able to go.
The Stanley FatMax is made from durable plastic with metal hinge pins and several parts of the slide system made from metal but the plastic is a thick PVC like material. The Stanley FatMax is strong, you can sit or stand on it while it is closed up without a problem but it is not really a step stool.
The Stanley FatMax makes the perfect work station and portable tool box system that costs about $75, you can find it at local home improvement stores and online. I highly recommend the Stanley FatMax 4-in-1 Mobile Work Station for a fantastic portable tool box system.