... than Screwfix, and a free baby one too!
Now to decide which tools go where.
(Thinks; spanners could go back in concertina metal box and use the tray they're presently in to carry to jobs. What I *really* need is a fitter's mate - the job I used to do at WD & HO Wills factory in Bedminster, Bristol, (now a shopping centre) during summer vacations.)
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Perfect, thank you for that. My 30-mumble year old plastic toolbox is just about on its last legs, and this is just the ticket for a replacement.
Ordered.
Rule 1 is no toolbox is ever large enough. ;-)
Rule 2. Split the load between two boxes.
Rule 3. The tool you want is in the other box.
Rule 4. No - you've left it on the bench.
Welcome.
My metal concertina one is so full I have to half-empty it to find anything.
that will be due to lack of use ...
I now have three (four if you count the tray of spanners), so I now have to decide how to split up the tools.
2 toolboxes wouldn't even begin to cut it. Toolboxes are really only for people that don't have many tools.
NT
I used to use WD & HO Wills tobacco tins to organise my screws, nails, drills etc, and then checked everything in a canvas bag.
I still do. I worked there in summer vacations from 1973 through 1975 and still have a number of Golden Virginia Hand Rolling Tobacco tins left from then. They're very, very useful for small bits and pieces. (Oh, and I've never smoked...)
Used either Exmoor Hunt or Gold Block tins, but the supply of those ceased in 1988. Tools, on the other hand, tend to need slightly bigger containers.
or people who do jobs other than at home.
I have loads of tobacco tins that I use for small bits. I have never smoked. All obtained from SWMBO from the days when she smoked a pipe.
I've never found toolboxes good for that. Not enough space, hard & pointy & unnecessarily heavy once loaded (for a large metal multilayer one). The only time I found one worked well enough was to carry car tools around in case of trouble.
NT
+1, I must have about 20. That's not counting the boxes of screws, nuts & bolts, etc. I must count them some time....
At least one of mine goes back to my grandfather who died in 1955. It's a cylindrical Players Navy Cut Medium, which lives here in the office because it doesn't stack nicely like the 2 ounce rectangular ones. Others came from my father.
I;ve always found thast the tool I want to use is in the other toolbox which is further way or can't currently be found.
I've always found thast the tool I want to use is in the other toolbox which is further way or can't currently be found.
No, you *think* it's in the furthest away toolbox, but after you've been and checked, it turns out it was hiding behind the toolbox that was under your nose to start with.
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