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How to organize tools?; Still needs to be liftable
Topic Started: Jan 14 2012, 08:01 PM (2,528 Views)
Tofuball
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I'm not THAT far from you, and I have a friend who sells used tools and toolboxes at a deep discount.

If you're up for it, perhaps you guys could fill the holes in eachother's collections and sell\trade him what you don't need instead of throwing it out.

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Car Nut
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I like MS's pics of roll around boxes. You know that you have a Harbor Freight at the corner of 360 & Chippenham right? I bought their US General bottom tool box on sale for $329.00. Nice quality box, roller bearings, 13 drawers. Have a Mac top box & side cabinet hanging on it. Link for one I got.
http://www.harborfreight.com/13-drawer-red-industrial-quality-roller-cabinet-90320.html
Would really like this one some day.
http://www.harborfreight.com/56-inch-11-drawer-industrial-roller-cabinet-67681.html
Edited by Car Nut, Jan 15 2012, 04:46 PM.
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metroschultz
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Please just call me; "Schultz"

Hey!
Hey!
Hey!

I gots lotsa holes in my socket rails that need fillin'
Mark said I could have first dibs.
Nyah. :rasp
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Old Man


make a "roller frame" like the medics use in ambulances. Make it the correct length and height so the wheels, etc collapse as you slide it in your metro. buy the top only part of the fancy tool boxes and mount two or three on the frame (what ever fits in your metro hatch.
----good for rolling around in the shop and portable for emergencies.
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sphenicie


mrmurf....custum tools....priceless!
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Cobb
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I may have friends who work at the post office, but I dont like them enough to mail tools across the country. :)

Yeah, a lot of my fathers tools from Sears has the block style letters for CRAFTSMANs.I am going to keep those over the made in China on a Sunday ones.

I pass by that damn tool store twice a day and have a flashlight hanging on every door knob on both sides of each door. :slapface.

I got a coupon in the paper for the black 4 drawl rolling tool cart for 100 bucks, a set of free screw drivers if they have them in yet and 20% off anything else I want. :)

Of course if anyone has a used box cart they no longer need feel free to tell me. Ive been known to drive to MD, DE, WV, NC, PA..
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Cobb
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:coffee OK, going to put sockets in tubs based on drive, 1/4, 3/8, 1/2 1 inch. 1 inch??? :die

Then all tools with a pivot point like pliers for example.

Then a "wrench". Soemthing that looks like an open, closed, rachett end, etc.

Then "other".

One of my problems is, I do not know what a standard or metric socket line up is. I have fraction metric sockets. 7mm, 7.5mm, 8mm, 8.5mm. For standard sizes for example I have seen 7/32 11/32 and other sized not in tool kits I see advertised. Do I need to include every single size?

Then I have a grab bag of allen, hex keys. I have folding ones like pocket knives, some with ball ends, long, short, black, gold, etc.
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Cobb
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Tofuball, any word on a tool cart? I hate to give my money to Fred the Chineese tool guy if an American member here had one they no longer needed.
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Tofuball
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PMed you my phone #
Edited by Tofuball, Jan 18 2012, 04:26 PM.
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Cobb
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You do know I worked in a call center for 5 years then I committed suicide after my fathers death late last year? I wasnt successful, but I still hate the phone. :)
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MetroRob
Jan 15 2012, 10:57 AM
the basic recipe is: wood+drilled holes+ magnet on the bottom+ hand written sharpie label. I'll post a picture if anyone is interested.

Rob
Pictures... :drool

That's a *great* idea.
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Cobb
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Ive decided on the black 4 draw tool cart Metroschultz showed. I got a coupon for 99 bucks. I saw it in person and think it will do.

I am going to wrap my extension cord around the handles, mount a power strip. I am then going to put a group 51 battery on the lower level, a trickle charger from the same tool store to power my 12 volt wrench impact wrench and the charger to my 18 volt flashlight/drill by same tool company. Did I mention I stop by there to make a purchase daily?

Going to attempt to make some socket things like mentioned above. I got their vibration tool and a few blades.

Since no one has commented I am going to put the fractional metric sockets :die a side for donations.

My uncle left a gas tank that has a removable bottom compartment for storage, so will make a second tool kit for that area.

Found a small vice and going to mount that to the lid of the tool cart. :cheers
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Cobb
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I went to buy my new tool cart and it weighs 105 lbs empty. I walked on to a single draw tool cart. Now I need to get some time to sit down and go through the 6t tall stack of misfit plastic tool boxes and 3 5 gallon buckets of tools. :)
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Cobb
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Comin along. Got a portable tool kit in a plastic box I found with 2 draws. Got a small kit in a gas can that has a compartment on the bottom of it.

I got a tool bag, but in retrospec it doesnt really work too well as it changes shapes when you lift it.

I bought a hand full of yard sticks from home depot. I then cut them to length and put small wood screws in them and use them to stand up sockets. This yway I have a ruller when I need it and the sockets are sitting upright so I can place a nut or bolt in it to make sure its the right size oor I can grab a stick and take it to the part.

I seem to like the home depot rackett they sell at the check out lane. It has a 3/8 side and 1/4 side.
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