Paging the workshop/ toolies

Having got a very expensive tool cabinet in the garage and have been
slowly filling it with lovely tools as and when I can afford. The tolls
that I try and get are actually for the cab, in that they come with the
proper foam inserts that hold the tools in.

However I have other bits and bats that I just have rolling around
inside it, does anyone know where I can get the right sort of foam to
make my own inserts?

This might help explain what I mean.

http://tinyurl.com/3xgd4ge

Itd be even nicer if I can make them them same height and whatnot.
--
Gavin.

Moto Guzzi California Aquila Nera
GSXR600K1
Twitter: http://twitter.com/gavin_wilby
Blog: http://www.stoof.co.uk

 

That adjustable spanner looks like it should be in the "Tools not in
trays" section.

 

Try here: http://efoam.co.uk/indexm.html

 

You should be out there using them, not polishing them ;-)

Paul.

 

http://www.boutiquetoyou.co.uk/gadget-gifts-c-795.html

 

I was thinking that

 

I own a BMW, so **** off fatty

 

heh, but he's not biting.

There's a school of thought that if you're workig in a garage, then
it's good practice to count all your tools out and back in, which with
good storage organisation makes it easier to see if something is
missing.

TBQH, all my tools and sockets had my owners mark on them when I was
in the trade.

But for home use, (and all my tools are nowadays), that degree of
organisation really isn't needed.

For spanners I use these, the spanners lock in, making them portable
(and it's easy to see if one's missing)

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/HvGDC0_lGVQ/0.jpg

And for my sockets I use these (again, it's easy to see if one has
gone AWOL)

http://www.atoolcrib.com/catalog/images/m/mts721.jpg

With snap-on sockets over a fiver a pop, it's good to see you have
them all

For the other stuff, pliers, screwdrivers etc, philips/pozi go in 1
drawer, slot heads in the other.

Paul.

 

Use closed cell material cut from the camping mats you can get that go
under a sleeping bag. Most of the foams easily available ore not
suitable if you want the stuff to stay in good condition.
The mats are about 8mm thick polyurethane and can be glued together to
make any thickness, with cutouts to suit any tool.
Custom layouts are a doddle and mucho cheapo if that's a factor.
12x1 sq.m. drawers, some up to 100mm deep, cost about 25 quid plus a few
hours fettling.

 

zymurgy wrote:

I still mark all mine when I can remember. Having a Dremel makes that
easier.

Yes it is, I hate having tools disorganised

I prefer racks in the drawers. I don't like removing whole sets from
the chests and would rather buy a new set for working away from the
boxes.

My socket rail plates came off the MAC van. A fiver? I'd check the
price of Snap-On tools again if I were you valuing them for insurance
purposes - try closer to a tenner in alot of cases.

All screwdrivers together, all hand Allen drivers in together with the
hand torx drivers, all pliers and sidecutters together etc

 

Words you thought you'd never hear.

 

Packing tools in like that is only really of any use of you're
regularly loading them in trucks and shipping them half way round the
world then coming back when the racing's over. On a day to day basis
having tools slotted into foam like that is a proper PITA.

Loose is the word

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25191903@N05/

 

It's a car, right, with four wheels - none of that two wheeled shite
BMW call motorcycles.... ad infinitum

 

Mine are only organised in so far as I can see a gap where there
shouldn't be one.

Yea, my set of snap on spanners stay mostly in the drawer, but I have
a Draper Pro set I cart on this holder out to the job all together. I
hate having to go back and forth to the tool cab. The big version can
hold from 8mm to 22mm, which covers 90% of the jobs on a bike.

Yea, these are MAC too. 'Mechanics time savers' they're called.

Means I can cart the full set with me. I usually only use 3/8" drive
deep stuff, pretty much all the time. All the 1/4" and 1/2" stays in
the cab until I need it.

Most of the small stuff I use is around a fiver. The deep 1/2" sockets
are bit spicy price-wise though. Most of my big socketry is Sealey or
Britool (i.e. 24mm and above). I only buy snappy for the stuff I use a
lot.

Paul.

 

I'm pretty much the same. I buy quality alternatives for the
irregularly used stuff and Snap-On for the stuff that gets caned day in
day out, like 3/8 sockets, screwdrivers etc, and stuff I know I'll
break if I buy anything less than Snap-On.

 

The last thing you want to do is leave an instrument inside a patient.

 

I must be very old fasioned - I way prefer a nail board for spanners.

 

It depends how deep they're embedded. I find it easier to work fast
using this setup than with loose tools.

If it suits you, it's good.

 

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m570.l1313&_nkw=spanner+
racks&_sacat=See-All-Categories

They look like this in the drawers

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4095/4806573270_4551a38d3a_b.jpg

--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Tourer, CBR600F-W racebike in the making, TS250C, RD400F
(somewhere)
BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite
they churn out)

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=400127199837
Did Paul C take the picture?