No offense, but you're the anomaly. Machinist/electrician/gear-head/handy man, and god only knows what else you are capable of.HTRN wrote:I have Electrical tools(like Rotosplits, special expanding screwdrivers, etc), Machinist tools(which currently fill two Kennedy Boxes), Welding gear, Plumbing stuff(I'm not even sure how many big pipe wrenches are here - 3,4?), etc, across one standard sized rollaway, and countless tool boxes.
I couldn't build a bird house without the state condemning it, but I can rebuild anything from a 2 stroke weed wacker to a 525 CAT. I understand why you would "try" to fit everything into a single box, but for a home set, most things could be hung on a wall. Wrenches/socket/ and such are what need to be organized in a single box.
Chris for example is a trained wood worker, not to mention a gear head and engineer. I doubt he would use a single box to hold coping and jig saws as well as "mechanics" tools. Most electricians I know can fit all of their(used daily) tools in a "bucket bag" and most machinists I know can fit their personal tools in what would be considered a small top box. Usually 1-2-3 blocks, parallels, clamping kits, and t-bolts are supplied by the shop. Yeah it's great to have your own so no one else touches them, but unless you work in a dedicated machine shop(not one that makes parts for a bigger factory) it is supplied. When I worked for Laidlaw, 1" drives were laying around the shop but I had my own so I didn't have to wait for a free one(and you really don't need a 1" to remove truck/bus wheels, it's just quicker). If I were to own one of the big snap-on or other brand boxes I would most likely spread myself too thin on tools and not using them.
Tool "compulsion" is a horrible disease I luckily overcame early.
The problem is when suddenly you need to find a use for all of those big drawers. One becomes standard sockets down to allen drivers, another becomes metric down to allen drives and yet a third becomes "deep" sockets. Then you throw in impacts and "large"(wheel bearing/4x4 retainer) sockets and you are constantly opening and closing drawers to find stuff. For the weekend "I change my own oil" mechanic it looks great to impress the neighbors. For someone who uses it 10 hours a day, every day, it becomes a hassle to keep organized. My "mechanic" tools are in my garage, my "lawn care" crap is in my shed and my limited home repair(again I can't drive a nail to save my life) tools are in a little box in the back of a closet.Aglifter wrote:The big ones are useful to keep tools fast and easy to access, and organized.
) as my taller 26" you should have plenty of room for any tools you need and the advantage of a work surface on top. As to the side cabinets, they were only used to hold specialty tools in blow molded cases. I doubt you'll find a need for dedicated Navistar scanners and such. If the shops I worked in supplied those I would have had no need for the side cabinets.
