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Calculators and planners

Six tools that answer the questions a spec sheet leaves open. Each one runs entirely in your browser, keeps nothing, and prints the formula it used so you can check it or do it on paper.

Most tool storage decisions come down to arithmetic somebody skipped: whether the drawer load is inside the derated slide rating, whether the cabinet still lets you walk past it with a drawer open, how many foam layers come out, whether a crossover box leaves room for sheet goods. These do that arithmetic and explain where every factor came from.

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Drawer Load and Slide Rating Calculator

Turn a drawer slide pair rating into a realistic working load, with service, load position and wear derating applied and the factors printed.

Slide ratings are per pair, not per slide, and almost never per drawer assembly.

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Tool Box Fit and Clearance Planner

Check whether a tool chest fits your bay before you buy. Accounts for drawer extension, the depth of a person standing at it, vehicle width and car door swing.

A 22 inch deep cabinet needs roughly 68 inches of clear depth to be usable, not 22.

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Kaizen Foam Layer Calculator

Work out how many foam layers to remove for a given tool, how much base to leave, whether the block fits your drawer, and how many sheets the job needs.

Always leave a minimum of one full layer as a base under every pocket.

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Truck Bed Tool Box Fit Finder

Enter measured bed dimensions and get the crossover size class to shop, the style your rail height suits, and how much bed floor you keep.

Measure outside rail to outside rail at the front of the bed. Modern beds taper toward the tailgate.

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Steel Gauge to Thickness Converter

Convert sheet steel gauge to thickness in inches and millimeters, weight per square foot, and relative bending stiffness. Includes the full Manufacturers Standard Gauge table.

Lower gauge number means thicker steel. The scale is inverse and not linear.

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Storage Cost per Liter Calculator

Normalize tool box pricing by volume: exterior dimensions to liters, a usable-volume factor, then a comparison against our modular box database.

Exterior volume is the only figure published consistently, so normalize on it and apply a usable factor.

How these are built

No accounts, no email gate, no server. Every calculator is a small piece of JavaScript that runs on your device, and the dimensions and prices you type never leave it. Where a calculator applies a judgment factor, such as a derating multiplier, the factor and its reason are printed with the result. The reasoning is documented in how we analyze.