Sadly my much used and perfectly sized Keter rolling toll box that holds all my standard range gear suffered a latch failure after some jerk cut me off and brake checked me in traffic (I hate holiday panic shoppers) resulting in a near panic stop causing the box to slide the length of the truck bed and crash into the forward bulkhead of the bed. For the moment a long bungie holds it closed enough for casual movement but I do want to make it “right” again.
I contacted the company and received a nice reply stating that although the boxes are still available on the market they discontinued production many years ago and no replacement parts are available. I searched the web for OEM replacement parts to no avail. Though I could conceivably buy an new replacement box the $70+ price tag chaps my hide when all I need is a $2.00 part to fit a perfectly good box and also avoid figuring out some alternative latching/locking system.
A casual conversation with a co-worker led to him sending me the link below- Obviously I’m not the first to be annoyed by this inability to procure this simple part.
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:433757
Here’s the ask- could someone with a 3D printer give me a quote to make me a pair of these (one for now and one for the future) out of ABS? There’s a couple on-line places that I may try but figured I would ask here first.