And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I use several of the kind of wrench organizers shown in this photo, Earnst modular shelf dividers, and Earnst Socket Bosses and socket rails. I usually grab all the iron I need to do a job and when finished, clean them up and put them back. Hunting for tools is a bummer, but there is another reason having ogranizers.
You get to see if any tools are missing at a glance. The greatest missing tool story in my life was after helping a fellow mechanic rebuild a small Ingersoll Rand compressor and having him bitch about my losing one of his pliers for an entire year.
We went back a year later to work on the same compressor. Sure enough, Herman's needle nose pliers were at the bottom of the crankcase. I just smiled!
I'll take a wide angle shot of my socket shelf (56"x24") under the lid of my top box. With the next post on tool organization, I will post it and copy the image on this Blog. I am sure that CW will cream his jeans. Here is a link to eBay list of Earnst socket organizers:
PS I am so old that I remember the first socket organizer I ever saw. A mechanic at a boat repair shop may have been the first person grasp the concept. He took a peice of premium hardwood, sanded it, routed the edges, stained and varnished it and fastened a custom handle in the middle. It was a work of art! In my dads day, a socket organizer was a tote tray or the metal boxes the sockets or socket sets were shipped in.
All Snap-on wrenches. There' some bux tied up in that drawer! Mine looks like that except that there is one drawer for inch sizes and one for metric. Leonard you are correct that you can tell what is missing in an instant. Makes it easy to get what you want quickly too.
Might take a shot of my socket organization in the top of my box also. With 40 years of hard use it's not real pretty but still works very well.
My wrench drawer looks like that maybe twice a year.....for about 20 minutes each.
ReplyDeleteTHen I fix something and the symmetry and organization goes to hell again.
I use several of the kind of wrench organizers shown in this photo,
ReplyDeleteEarnst modular shelf dividers, and Earnst Socket Bosses and socket
rails. I usually grab all the iron I need to do a job and when
finished, clean them up and put them back. Hunting for tools
is a bummer, but there is another reason having ogranizers.
You get to see if any tools are missing at a glance. The greatest
missing tool story in my life was after helping a fellow mechanic
rebuild a small Ingersoll Rand compressor and having him bitch
about my losing one of his pliers for an entire year.
We went back a year later to work on the same compressor. Sure
enough, Herman's needle nose pliers were at the bottom of the
crankcase. I just smiled!
I'll take a wide angle shot of my socket shelf (56"x24") under the
lid of my top box. With the next post on tool organization, I will
post it and copy the image on this Blog. I am sure that CW will
cream his jeans. Here is a link to eBay list of Earnst socket
organizers:
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=ernst+socket+rail&ul_noapp=true
Email me the photo, and I'll post it.
DeletePS I am so old that I remember the first socket organizer I ever
ReplyDeletesaw. A mechanic at a boat repair shop may have been the first
person grasp the concept. He took a peice of premium hardwood,
sanded it, routed the edges, stained and varnished it and fastened
a custom handle in the middle. It was a work of art! In my dads
day, a socket organizer was a tote tray or the metal boxes the
sockets or socket sets were shipped in.
Meh ! Too anal for my tastes...............
ReplyDeleteAll Snap-on wrenches. There' some bux tied up in that drawer! Mine looks like that except that there is one drawer for inch sizes and one for metric. Leonard you are correct that you can tell what is missing in an instant. Makes it easy to get what you want quickly too.
ReplyDeleteMight take a shot of my socket organization in the top of my box also. With 40 years of hard use it's not real pretty but still works very well.