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Jul 18, 2020 20:29:01 GMT
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These big metal ball bearing cabinets all well and good, but when you spend most of your time working on a driveway or down the lockup, you want something that you can easily moved around. I prefer plastic toolboxes as they are lighter. I also like cantilever ones but I haven’t seen many variants. This is my current one (Stanley)...is not perfect as the hinges are pretty weak - as you can see I’ve strengthened most of them as they’ve come loose What’s everyone else using?
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Jul 18, 2020 20:34:52 GMT
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My rollcab has a removable tray so I use that, although I intend to buy a tool trolley as the tray tends to get too full and heavy if I've got a few big tools in there like hammers and pullers. It makes digging around for a 10mm spanner a bit of a pain.
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adam73bgt
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Jul 18, 2020 20:43:58 GMT
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If I'm doing stuff away from home, I'll usually just take my Halfords 150 (or however many piece it is) tool kit, has got most of the sockets, spanners and screwdrivers I need. I'll then supplant this with any other stuff I know I'll need for the job (hammer etc. )
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cjj
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Jul 18, 2020 20:44:10 GMT
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I keep my tools mostly in their original boxes/racks etc, so keep them in a roller bearing cabinet but lift them out in their self-contained purposes for portability.
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glenanderson
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Jul 18, 2020 21:17:08 GMT
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I’ve a specific portable kit, separate from by “best” tools that don’t leave the workshop.
A pair of medium sized metal cantilever boxes, one with spanners and socketry, the other with screwdrivers, pliers, grips, cutters etc, and a third, large, plastic box with hammers, hacksaw, chisels, drifts and other bulky stuff. There’s enough to do pretty much anything on my Land-Rover that could possibly occur; I removed, repaired and replaced the gearbox once when I was at Uni having borrowed an engine crane.
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My worst worry about dying is my wife selling my stuff for what I told her it cost...
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Jul 18, 2020 21:47:25 GMT
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Stanley one on a little trolley. Bottom box is plastic and top box is metal.
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Jul 18, 2020 21:51:27 GMT
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I use this,
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Dez
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Jul 18, 2020 22:08:16 GMT
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No strictly what you’re asking, but similar to glenanderson I have a separate ‘on the road’ kit thats entirely unrelated to workshop stuff. I keep in in a canvas napsack type army bag, so it rattles less. That an a halfords super low trolley jack moves between my cars as I do. It’s mostly a selection of spanners, a bare bones 1/2” socket set, a few screwdrivers, pliers and snips, and then the real get you home tools of a lump hammer, chisel, hacksaw and files. Plus zip ties, wIre, assorted bolts and electrical connectors, etc.
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Jul 18, 2020 22:37:39 GMT
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Same for me as most people - the vast majority of my tools are in roller cabinets in the garage at home but I have a 'go bag' which lives in the boot of whatever my main car is at the time. The cars change regularly so the contents of the 'go bag' are fairly generic. It's a zip up holdall with a small, basic socket set, half a dozen spanners in the common sizes, pliers, a few screwdrivers in different sizes and the real essentials - a hi-viz vest, tow rope, jump leads, gaffer and electrical tape, cable ties, wire, a tin of assorted fuses and a small hammer. So far it's always been enough for temporary roadside fixes to get me home!
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Currently driving a '68 Karmann Ghia as my daily. Don't ask about previous cars - there have been way too many and I stopped counting at 160!
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melle
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Jul 18, 2020 22:49:09 GMT
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A bucket, or multiple if the tools for the job don't fit in one.
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glenanderson
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I would add, that the quality of the tools in my “go boxes” is adequate rather than excellent. I’d rather not lose any of it, but if I do leave a spanner or suchlike behind out of one of them it’d not be the end of the world.
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My worst worry about dying is my wife selling my stuff for what I told her it cost...
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Halfords 200 piece set, plus whatever special tools required in whatever is to hand.
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Been contemplating doing some canvas type RR tool rolls as a merch thin. Based on the fact that I like to have a small tool kit in each car with the right basic sockets, spanners, screwdrivers etc. it in for basic maintenance. I figured it would be nice to have some nicer to store them in than a 'bag for life', preferably something that minimised the noise.
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Dez
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And I won't sit down. And I won't shut up. And most of all I will not grow up.
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Been contemplating doing some canvas type RR tool rolls as a merch thin. Based on the fact that I like to have a small tool kit in each car with the right basic sockets, spanners, screwdrivers etc. it in for basic maintenance. I figured it would be nice to have some nicer to store them in than a 'bag for life', preferably something that minimised the noise. Good idea, but please stay clear of any of the cheap cr4ppy ones eBay and Amazon seem to be full of. (Not that I don’t expect anything you do to be quality, all the other RR merchandise is well above the quality of others, with the exception of maybe the VHRA). I’m sort of in the market for one but I’m picky as f-k, I’ve discounted loads on poor design, poor materials and use of unnecessary plastic, especially plastic coated fabrics that break up over time. The best ones I’ve seen in terms of quality vs. Price are the carhartt and dickies ones at Around £35-40. It prefer the dickies with the ties rather than clips, but I think it is a little smaller. Ideally I’d just go buy a atlas46, but a couple of hundred quid On an occasional use thing that just sits in the boot most of the time seems a trifle excessive.
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Interesting...most of my tools have been gathered over the past 20 odd years, so I never started with a ‘good’ set. Hence the assortment that lives in that box ^^. The Halfords 200 piece set looks pretty comprehensive - although where is the big hammer and grips‽
I have a small metal sliding box which lives in the shed which contains the the tools that aren’t required most of the time (really big spanner’s, imperial sockets, spring compressors, etc...)
I do like the idea of a tool roll for the back of the car...
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No strictly what you’re asking, but similar to glenanderson I have a separate ‘on the road’ kit thats entirely unrelated to workshop stuff. I keep in in a canvas napsack type army bag, so it rattles less. That an a halfords super low trolley jack moves between my cars as I do. It’s mostly a selection of spanners, a bare bones 1/2” socket set, a few screwdrivers, pliers and snips, and then the real get you home tools of a lump hammer, chisel, hacksaw and files. Plus zip ties, wIre, assorted bolts and electrical connectors, etc. I have exactly the same set up in a canvas bag that lives in whatever old vehicle I'm driving at the time. I make do with a bottle jack though, mainly as the bedford is so high!
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Last Edit: Jul 19, 2020 10:05:16 GMT by VW
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Jul 19, 2020 10:22:00 GMT
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I have the older model of this www.ebay.co.uk/itm/324202576641I keep most frequently used tools in the top box and less frequently used in the bottom box. I can also fit my socket set and spanner roll in the bottom.
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Jul 19, 2020 11:23:08 GMT
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Hi, Like glenanderson and Dez I have what I call my 'yard box'. When I used to go to the breakers yard I would take the appropriate tools for the job but once there I would find another treasure to be rescued and very often not have the right tools for it. So I use an old school metal barn box and have one of every open and ring spanner up to 1" and 24mm plus sockets to match, sockets were kept on two bits of electrical wire tied in a loop to help with finding the right size. Also the usual slot and crosshead screwdrivers, pliers, cutters and of course a hammer and chisel. All of the above were older or second tier spanners that I have gathered along the way and wouldn't be the end of the world if they got left behind, although I did tend to inherit tools that other people had left behind, so that was a plus. Any fixings from parts removed were chucked in the box which built up a stock of parts for any breakdowns on the road. I did have to edit the box occasionally when it got a bit heavy from the gained weight. The box went from car to car with me along with a tow rope , jump leads and a transit type scissor jack in case the jacking points on the present car were a bit 'tender' and couldn't be trusted. Colin
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shin2chin
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Jul 19, 2020 16:12:01 GMT
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I have basic kits in the 924 and Beetle in bags. Just a few sockets, ratchet, spanners, screwdrivers, pliers and a few fuses, zip ties and fuel hose along with a few spares. In my workshop is the big snap on style stack whilst in the garage I have my grandads old cantilever toolbox with a set of spanners, sockets and other bits I'm using currently on the Beetle which is on the drive. Tools in the cars are are just old stuff, get you home type. Workshop is stuff I don't use much but stuff I'm using on the Beetle is my best stuff.
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1977 PORSCHE 2.0na 924 1974 VW Beetle 1600
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retrolegends
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Jul 19, 2020 17:46:44 GMT
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Kennedy rollcab at work, Kennedy rollcab at home (which came from work 😂)
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