Lakeside Manufacturing
Lakeside 311 Utility Cart
The backbone of any professional practice is accessibility. Your tools within easy reach. American Toolbox auxiliaries have discovered firsthand how important organization and mobility can be. Rolling in and out of performing arts schools across the nation, we triage, dismantle, repair, and restore stringed instruments – and the occasional desk chair. Scheduled maintenance, emergency service, vanity buff-ups. You name it, we’ve been asked to do it.
The job gets done. It will now be a little easier. A near-vintage stainless steel utility cart has been donated to the cause! 🙂 Manufactured in the 1970s by the venerable Milwaukee Wisconsin firm Lakeside Manufacturing, our new cart still functions perfectly! Casters solid, roller bearings smoothly turning all four wheels any direction we require. We’ll be the Poster Luthiers at the next Orchestral Directors Bongo Banquet!
Lakeside has been producing durable products for over 70 years. Now that you know the name, you’ll recognize the distinctive “L” on their products. Found in all of the better practices and corporate parks across America.
How did we clean this basement rescue? Powerful water hose across all surfaces. Air dry 90%, old towel on the remainder. Silicone spray into the caster directional bearings, spin, wipe excess. Light wipe of all surfaces with silicone spray-dampened towel. Ready for John’s plectrum banjo. A bushing job on a 99-year-old banjo. Trimmed with a new chisel from Lie-Nielsen. And another story on American Toolbox.
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