I have a Ranchhand steel toolbox and everything in it is nasty. It is covered in dust that appears to be coming from the box itself (not airborne dust from outside), if you touch it, you get black crap all over everything. (I had an aluminum one before that did sort of the same thing overtime, like an aluminum "dust" coating on everything).
I assume it is some sort of oxidation, but don't really care.
I just want to know what other folks out there do to prevent this.
Like coating the inside with something (paint, etc), or other methods to prevent the dust from ruining everything inside.

Thanks,
~Rob

 

My previous PU was equipped with a UWS brand standard aluminum tool box with a really nice sliding aluminum tool tray.. Aluminum-to-aluminum vibrating contact created that black dust that got in my radio hardware mounted in the bottom of the tool box. After cleaning that crap out, I went down and bought some of those stick-on industrial felt pads and strips and covered everything that slid or touched metal to metal, with those felt pads. The lid gasket was changed to a thicker, much more resilient grey foam stickon stuff and I had little problems with the powered black death after that.
It worked great!

K.

 

Spray in bed liner. Had it done to my aluminum box and it stopped all that crap.

 

Better than Duct tape for fixing about anything!!!!!!

Wish I'd thought of that.

Ed

 

I have a UWS toolbox and lined the bottom with foam. Nothing slides around and no aluminum oxide dust.

MikeyB

 

Yeah, that's what I said. None of that crap. What he said.

 

I had a UWS on my last Ram, I just spraypainted the inside. It's what I had handy at the time...

 

Yep, I used the cheap stuff from Wal-Mart. This is just about the only application I would use it for, but seems to do the trick...