Sorting and cleaning tools (and toolbox)

"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury) 01/30/2020 at 21:32 • Filed to: None

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Work in progress. Some got sorted in the living room and then sorted again in the office. There are a number of different categories:

Screwy things

Pokey things

Cutty things

Wrenchy things

Allen things

Bitty things

Smol things

Firey things

Lighty things

Pliery things

Etc.

some are a bit rusty and need to be cleaned up. That’ll come next after the sorting and storing. I’ve had this toolbox for years and love it. I saw a new one at a store about a decade ago and wanted to buy it but I was broke. The middle drawer doesn’t latch properly thanks to an old classmate back in the ‘80s - he wasn’t a thinker and just applied brute force to everything including my toolbox. He’s the one that was doing a rebuild on the 350 in his mom’s wagon and didn’t line things up properly and bored right into the water jacket.

This whole project started because I was trying to find a couple of special security bits to open up some DVRs, but so far, after digging through what I thought was almost all of my tools, I still haven’t found those damn things...

PowderHound > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/30/2020 at 21:52

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I need to organize my tools and and very close to going down the rabbit hole of shadow/kaizen foam inserts for eve try thing

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/31/2020 at 00:23

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I'm pretty sure those clear handled screw drivers are nearly indestructible.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > BaconSandwich is tasty. 01/31/2020 at 00:46

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Probably so. A lot of my tools belonged to my grandfather, and he was a tool and die maker. A favorite is his Starrett Micrometer, still in the box with manuals and adjustment wrench. I think it’s from 1939 and in perfect shape.

Urambo Tauro > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/31/2020 at 06:23

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I like where this is going!

SpecsGTP > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/31/2020 at 06:54

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As a card carrying member of the rare fraternity know as “men” I can say that those images of tools have me fully aroused !

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/31/2020 at 11:13

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That’s awesome.

Tool and die Makers must be a special breed. I have enough trouble making anything remotely square or well fitting.