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Exactly, really good analogy.....

BR
Colin

Ah thats the difference between professionals sharing tools with professionals and pros sharing with amateurs. Being a very amateur I would not have known to return it with a new blade but would have provided a crate of beer/lager/cider and trough of pork scratchings.

Can I lend you anything? Please......

BR
Colin

+1

Many years ago as a spotty sixteen year old I bought my first motor bike , a BSA Bantam , the very next day I bought my first tool kit , 10 No6 and a screwdriver , Those of you as old as me will understand !!!! For the younger members reading this … To set the points on a Bantam you use the thickness of the card from a cigarette packet and a screwdriver . This was done quite frequently on an old bike . Since then I have amassed quite a collection of spanners , pliers , screwdrivers etc . All of them kept in various boxes , I wish I had the room for one of those huge cabinets on wheels , but alas I do not . Like everyone else I know where most of them are except the little offset spanner that fits the job !! Since buying My Morgan I have purchased a new grease gun with a pistol grip and One of those spring loaded expensive connectors . This forum will bankrupt me Ha Ha

When I bought my first Snap On box (5 draw top box) it was in the 3rd year of my apprenticeship, the shop floor guys thought I was mental. The form back then was a cantilever box that you carried from car to car, of course lugging this monster about was impossible. They also laughed every Friday for months as I handed over a chunk of my wages to the Snap On Man!

So I cleared an area at the end of the garage near a bench and moved the cars to me instead. I actually believe I invented the ‘service bay’ ;-). Then I found an old steel small bench on castors at a scrapyard that they sold me for £2. I was now a mobile mechanic.

It took me 40 years to buy a Snap On Roll Cab with draw deviders (thank you EBay) and I have several sets of plastic spanner organisers. When I started doing kingpins many owners wanted to wait and get involved so instead of the constant not that draw the next one, no the other long one, no the one with a kink.... I labelled all draws and containers with Dynatape, then my nuts and bolts racks were all labelled by thread type/size/length.

Happy days as I could sit there and ask for two 5/16” Nylocs.... and all my kit went back in the correct draw after cleaning. (As several on here can testify )

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Colin

Where is the fun in that Colin. Surely inner calm comes from not being able to find the d**n tool? It adds so much enjoyment to the task.

Funny!
I just startet to do the same.
I bought some l-boxx cases (Bosch/ Sortimo) for my cordless drills and angle driver and looked for some foam to use as inset.

I had to decide between "very nice to have" and practicability.

The best and perhaps cheapest way was to buy the foam insets from l-box. They are easy to get in shape and not more expensive than som foam sheets.


I have to store 3 Sets of tools at 3 locations so guess how I decided..

Have you got a blow torch ? Heat the spanners and then just drop them on the foam. If you do a test piece you can see how long you need to hold them for to get just the right depth.👍

As an apprentice in the 70’s cleanliness and keeping workshop tidy was instilled in us, and even today I maintain that ethos in my garage/workshop. Like you Colin if I need stainless steel spring washer I can go straight to the cabinet and find one. I can’t stand hunting for items. My wife says I have OCD? But I insist it is CDO just to keep it in order.