Great Idea

Oh yes, that is a splendid idea. But as a poster on there says, I'll have to get some tools worth pampering first.....& a decent set of drawers (no jokes please). :mrgreen:
 
Excellent idea & quite an interesting website - thanks.
Just need to ask the Missus if she has any old drawers for me.
 
Great idea....but.....these things are always such a waste of space.

I can get a lot more tools in the drawer if I just randomly through them in there :D

Dave
 
that is ingenius... Of course having drawers to put the tools in the first place would require a certain amount of organisation in the first place ;)

Rich
 
In terms of organising, and getting more tools in the drawers etc. I have mine setup so that I basically I have 2 or 3 drawers with the key tools all laid out nice and tidy, combination spanner set, socket set and pliers/grips etc. Having these laid out means I can get the right tool quickly without sifting through loads of other stuff, and these are the tools I'm using 90% of the time anyway.

I then have other drawers which are for the less common tools, and I tend to pile a lot more in there, I don't mind a bit of a search for the brake flaring tool when I only use it once or twice a year.

I did however spoil myself a few months back and bought another big toolchest / cabinet thing, during one of machine marts vat free days, this is currently sat in the conservatory, virtually empty, waiting for me to clear space for it in the garage. I can then get more of the tools organised, and of course buy more tools ! :LOL:

One tip I would say, don't get one of those roll cabinets with the large open area in the bottom, it's a waste of space, drawers are much more usefull.
 
That does make A lot of sense. I need to get wings back on the car to give space to get properly organised in my sheds....
 
My tools would be very upset being separated from their relatives after all these years living on top of each other :LOL:
 
For my part & in terms of organising, I have all my spanners in one tool box & everything else in another & when I want a particular tool (spanners particularly) I carefully remove handfuls at a time, throw them on the floor & noisily sort through them until I remember that the tool I want is where I left it in whatever car I happen to be working on at the time.
It works for me.
 
If the guy has time to bu@@er about making cosy beds for his tools, his tools are obviously under employed. A market for anyone selling a P6, get one in the mans workshop now! :LOL:
 
I think I suffer from some sort of sellective OCD, all the spanners and sockets are perfectly laid out, and if any are missing I can't sleep until I find them.

But then the rest of the garage is a tip with various engines in stages of rebuild, p6 waiting for some love, parts and other tools all over, can't remember the last time I saw the bench, it can only be located by the vice sticking out of the end. :LOL:
 
hi all,
i can't weigh up why you need to buy an expensive tool box to keep your spanners in. surely a big board on the garage wall, cheap nails knocked in and spanners hung from them, cheap and cheerfull and can easily be seen and got to, no sticking out of a big toolbox. works for me any way :idea:
 
As an aircraft mechanic, tool control is virtually a legal requirement, because the sign-off is that the aircraft is serviceable as per manufacturer's specifications, which does not include tools lying around in dark corners, and the easiest way to do that is to have a box or shadow board that is carefully controlled to clearly show missing tools.
Some of the clients I have worked for insist that tool control is strictly adhered to by daily auditing of boxes, while others will leave it to the individual, but still require some form of control to be in place.
 
Never really thought of that, but I guess a 32mm ring spanner left in the front of a jet intake could make a real mess :LOL:

Certainly a lot worse than the screwdriver you always leave on the inner wing (P6 wing that is !)
 
John,
I spent a quite a few interesting nights in an Emergency Room at one of the big hospitals in Cape Town thanks to my then girlfriend and in the course of my visits got to see all the equipment and "toys" that the folks use to put you back together in there.
The toolbox that had me the most astounded was the Orthopaedic Surgeons', with pneumatic drills, saws, screwdrivers, pick tools, pliers... you name it. All in surgical steel, too..... There were a few tools there that I could have used in my toolbox at home. By the way, it was a TOOLBOX..... 7 drawer Snap-On roll cab in....STAINLESS...(where's the drooling smiley??) :cry:
 
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