Technical Do you know how many tools you have?

I dug this one out today to use. Proto 12 inch 1/2 inch drive with a 3/8 welded on top. Guy in the factory worked for Ford in Dallas. He was a millwright and these came in handy for the millwright. His Forman saw him building some and tried to fire him for destroying company property. The maintaince GF heard of the issue and told the forman if the millwright goes so do you!! The tool is handy I'm proud to own one of the odd balls.

 

Apparently not enough as I keep buying more at swapmeets and craigslist. I take pics every few years just in case of a fire, I live in an area where no one wants my old stuff. My full BIG rollaway tool box at work, full top/bottom rollaway tool box at my moms, over full big rollaway tool BOXES at home and plus every car (and future cars) get their own hand held tool box full of tools........of course they're mostly old brands. I like old tools, get them really cheap and still use them.

 

Just misplaced one two days ago...Its here somewhere.....

 

I am a retired ford mechanic after 35 years. My 3 bay Snap on box is full of Snap on and Mac tools. When I was working I put together a large top and bottom box full of Craftsman and other tools at home. My Dad was a Mechanic and I have his Snap on set. A 30X50 shop with a lift, welders, drill press, band saw, ect.. Also have a second shop with two bays. One side for toys and the other is a spray booth of sorts. I rarely buy tools other than an occasional specialty tool. How many?? A lot!! I`m sure my daughter the nurse will have a use for them when I am gone. Right?

 

back in the olden days when SHOP owners provided uniforms and shop supplies
and TQQLs , the TQQL corner had the usual peg board .
now the caveat was the 1/2-9/16th combo wrenches were hard to FIND
so after re-filling those up with 6 each on the extended peg...
it got to the point that that WAS not working.
So i went out and BOUGHT all 16 employees AT the time there own COMPLETE tool sets.
and dismantled the TQQL corner. They got to keep them if they stayed for one year.
Lots of pride they ALL stayed over a year, they ALL kept them locked up every nite.
Ya it wasn't nothin fancy 1970's basic craftsman set wasn't overly expensive BUT ,
i never had to buy any more tools...
THANKs guys
now i gota go out -n- buy a new BIGGER tool box...lol
Ya never have to many.

 

I have NO idea.3 rollaways with center add ons,a rollaway bottom,3 tool boards,tool box for each car and that doesnt count the various machine tools ,welders etc.Too many I reckon!

 

I can relate,I have accumulated a lot of hand tools over the years several roll around tool boxes and have complete sets of sockets in each one but it never fails if I need a 9/16 deep well socket it's missing ~ in every tool box. HRP

 

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No idea, if you know you don't have enough

 

I believe the correct term is "shit ton," don't know if that's metric, short or freight. Organization of said shit ton 'O' tools is minimally organized and evenly distributed about the shop area by 16 year old son who thinks he is a mechanic though he has yet to master the most rudimentary tasks. Tools are located by asking "wher'd ye use it last boy?"

 

It's "KNOCK ON WOOD!". Touching your wood is a whole other matter

 

I went to an estate auction a few weeks ago and just the guy's tools took 2 or 3 hours to sell off. He had set after set of SK Tools sockets and wrenches, some of them still sealed and never used.

You can sometimes catch people sleeping and get deals at these things, but the cheap stuff all goes to flea market vendors, the higher end stuff you have to fight both guys buying it for themselves and resellers.

I have no real idea how many tools I have, but I have far less than that guy did.

 

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I use my tools everyday. I know where everyone is located. The ones I use most, I have duplicates. I don`t buy tools to just to buy them. I have a purpose in mind and a use for them. There are 8 houses on our block. If you add up the amount of tools of all of them except my neighbor. I have more. Double that number, that's how many he has. Maybe trippled. Were both selfemployed. He usually can`t find something and has to borrow it from me.

 

The only way I could come up with an accurate number for my tools would be to go to my brother-in-laws shop and count them...

 

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This is my work setup before I moved to my new shop. I have since acquired a couple more smaller toolboxes for all the overflow. Had to do a complete inventory for insurance at the new shop. There is so much shit in my shop at the house I couldn't take a picture of all the vintage snap-on toolboxes and top chests that are full of all types of vintage and homemade tools from my grandfather and stuff that I've picked up along the way. Between the shop and the house after inventory (which took me almost 2 weeks to fully go through) if I was to buy everything new in one fell swoop it would be roughly around 80k. That is roughly 20k more than I paid for my house.

 

Apparently I have no idea. I bought a tube bender the other day, and when I was done using it I put it away, only to discover I had the exact same one, already in the drawer. Damn.

 

2 1/2 lifetimes. My dear departed Dad, both of us together, and now mine. Add it all together and divide by 2 1/2, I think it equals the same number as Falcongeorge...

 

How close is any of that to a metric shit ton?


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I have every tool in the world minus the one I need at any given moment.

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My younger daughter graduated with a MS in Mechanical Engineering a couple of years back. At her work She's involved in some gummint project which is a competition with other bases to build a killer drone to disable the bad guys' drone. We've had some fun doing light fabrication for her part of the project,. Yes, the process has required some time be spent looking for tools in the shop. My tool count is lower right now, due to the ones she needed for her team to use at the base. I am not confident those tools will all come home when their project is finished.

 

Snap on got the blue right, my quad bay Matco at work is "indigo blue" which means purple........I bought it used so the price outweighed the color.

 

I think that Snap-on's Blue is the best color. It's not as "normal" as red or black and not a crazy as the other colors that they now have. When it comes to tool boxes I have never bought anything new except for the hutch. The price of boxes now are about as ridiculous as a brand new Ford truck.


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Two roll-a-rounds, tops and bottoms crammed full, a welding cart with all the welders and welding gear, then there's the jacks and jack stands, the air compressor and related tools, and finally, the one medium sized, hand carry toolbox full of metric CRAP (I would't have any of it if I did't have a 24 Y/O daughter who likes foreign made CRAP vehicles). We have't even gotten over to the garden shed full of stuff, the other shed full of more garden stuff, and my wife's shed full of her stuff and her tools (mostly empty boxes with smaller boxes inside, with even smaller boxes inside, with still even smaller boxes inside-This I learned in 86 when we bought our home and moved her out of her apartment, and I found just the same "box" scenario). And who here can't just go into Harbor Freight Tools just to look around, and leave with a grocery cart full of stuff (you know I'm right- going into HFT's is like comparing your fat girlfriend with a moped; they're both fun to ride, you just don't want your friends seeing you doing it, and you don't want anyone knowing you're going into HFT's). My most important set of tools sits on my dresser; it's the cheapest made plastic box, of the cheapest made tiny screwdrivers my daughter gave me when she was in elementary school. It was a X-Mas gift she earned at school for selling cookie dough or some such thing. Can't put a price on that, and they only get used for fixing eyeglasses. I am Butch/56sedandelivery.

 

A butt load....that's an engineering term