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TOOLS AND THE SHOP => GENERAL TOOL AND MACHINE DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Jamesyarbrough on August 20, 2019, 06:07:28 PM
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I cant stop buying tools. All the time, buying tools. New tools, vintage tools, work tools home tools, mechanic tools, hvac tools, plumbing tools, tools, tools! And the bad part is i have 4 or 5 of all the stuff im buying. Pawn shops, estate sales, random people on craigslist.
My mechanics roll around box is full. I put together a couple carry around boxes for my truck. Put together a small mechanics set for the wifes car. Had to buy another box just to put stuff in in my tool shed. Im up to about 17 pair of channellocks in various sizes and i always seem to want another set when i see em......same goes for adjustable wrenches. Just got another amp clamp at a supply house yesterday. The amprobe 310 to go with my flukes and fieldpiece meters in the van. And last week i got another tool bag for work and filled it up with new stuff that i already had so it could be my plumbing bag.
As i type i realize i could use another meter for my personal truck tool kit and possibly one for the wifes car.
I also have another sk 3/8 ratchet coming in the mail that i scored for $15 free shipping, ya know to go with the other 20 ratchets. And wrenches! Cant stop buying vintage wrenches! I have like 7 sets of sae. Both my cars are metric so i ordered a metric set to go with my other 4.
Im gonna need a bigger shed
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Doesn't sound like a problem to me. The wife wonders why I need six roller boxes but she really knows. You aren't even close in acquisitions to some of the guys and a lady on here. We have what we call ratchet whores on here and that is not meant in a bad way. When you buy roller stacks just to hold your ratchets you will earn that title.
If you know how to post pictures on here feel free to share as we love pics here.
I think you fit right in with us.
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I cant stop buying tools............
LOL -- So what's the problem? We've all been there at one point or another. There's always that ONE more tool that you need to add to the collection.
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Problem? what problem? Maybe you just need more tool boxes? See...no problem ^-^
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I have a 5 gallon bucket of USA made Vise Grips over flowing. If you ask to borrow them I'll give you a Chinese pair to use. :))
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Well i reckon im in the right place
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Cant post pics. Something about file too large or taking too long. Probably my network.
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It's a mental illness. Welcome to the club.
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You probably need to resize your photos. They won't post if they're bigger than a certain size.
Restrictions: 4 per post, maximum total size 2992000KB, maximum individual size 99128000KB
I think someone needs to fix those size numbers. ;-)
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I use postimage.org to resize. It's so easy a monkey could do it.
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Too many tools---NEVER---just build a larger shop!!!!!!!!!!
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This ain't no 12 step program, we are enablers through and through >:D
If you run out of reasons to buy tools, that we can help with :))
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Every couple of years I go through what I call the purge. I refocus, say to myself "what do I collect". Go thru all my tools, and pull out the tools that do not fit that description. I sell most of them, some I give away. If I don't go this I will at some point run out of room, and or tool money. I still end up with more tools, but will more tools that fit what I collect.
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I have a 5 gallon bucket of USA made Vise Grips over flowing. If you ask to borrow them I'll give you a Chinese pair to use. :))
Thats some funny shit right there.
I'm slacking , I did buy some tools from HJE a while back but the order was mostly consumables
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Just received some tools in today and have more on the way.
I've mostly been restricting myself to stuff I know I can use to some degree, but I cant possibly use all 7 1/4" ratchets and I know there will be others to come.
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This ain't no 12 step program, we are enablers through and through >:D
If you run out of reasons to buy tools, that we can help with :))
If you ever have the chance of visiting Phils shop you'll see he's found lots of reasons over the years! :D
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Got a new to me sk rat today. 3/8 diamond logo (my fav) love that handle!
$15 couldnt turn it down. Head is jacked but sk is sending me a kit.
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Pix or it didn`t happen
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Posting pics is a pita on this forum. Probably not gonna mess with it
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Bucket O Vise Grips.
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Nice! If that were me id look for a box just for vise grips. 8)
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Posting pics is a pita on this forum. Probably not gonna mess with it
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Posting pics is a pita on this forum. Probably not gonna mess with it
Just use this https://postimages.org/
Hit upload image then select your picture.
Once it's uploaded scroll down and hit the blue icon at the beginning of the hotlink for forums which copies it then you just paste it here.
Don't know why, but you use the blue icon and not the link itself.
I'm pretty sure it automatically formats it to a proper size, because I've never had to deal with resizing an image.
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Posting pics is a pita on this forum. Probably not gonna mess with it
Just use this https://postimages.org/
Hit upload image then select your picture.
Once it's uploaded scroll down and hit the blue icon at the beginning of the hotlink for forums which copies it then you just paste it here.
Don't know why, but you use the blue icon and not the link itself.
I'm pretty sure it automatically formats it to a proper size, because I've never had to deal with resizing an image.
Thanks
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So when my little box gets overloaded i try and make tool kits with all the doubles, like these. I also got a pretty big set in my truck and an ammo can kit in my wifes car. Runn8ng out of places and reasons to put tool kits.
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This red one just sits on my work bench. I figured it may save walking back to the shed if i need to work on a lawnmower or something
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Forgot to mention im a little bit of an axe junkie
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This is the back of the wifes car. A bunch of stuff, but the ammo cans make it more organized. Each one is a different kit. Left to right: jumper cables (road side stuff), survival kit, tool kit, trauma kit. That trauma kit has been used several times before leaving for the ER. Seems kids are really good at hurting themselves.
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Pix or it didn`t happen
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Got this box in a bucket of stuff at an estate sale. Made a pretty good little 1/4 drive metric set with it and got a cew more things ojt of my drawers..
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This box and some of the sockets was an estate sale find. The ratchet was my first sk. I found it on the side of the road 20 years ago. It was froze up and with a little work i got it running again. A few months ago i got sk to send me ojt a head kit because it needed it (for free). Its the single ratchet ive used the most all these years. Put my first engine in a camaro with it.
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Good job on the 1/4" drive set! -- I pieced a few together myself from odds 'n ends sitting in various boxes. They usually find their way into the trunk emergency repair kits of our family cars.
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Forgot to mention im a little bit of an axe junkie
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Got some nice doubles and some nice Michigan's there.
If I had to guess the 2nd double looks like a Woodslasher and the one with the bevel looks like some other kind of Kelly True Temper based on the looks of the bevels but I'm probably way off base.
Here's my two latest axes.
This one's a TT Woodslasher boys axe I bought two weeks ago that wasn't used enough to loose the burr the edge had from the factory.
Oh and a friend sent me a Slasher hatchet to go with it.
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And this ones a 4lb TT KELLY handmade peeler I got for $5 at a neighbors yardsale a few weeks ago.
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Nice! Most of my double bits are some sort of kelly. I believe the first one is a woodslasher. The second isnt marked. Its a smaller version. I believe the call em cruisers or cedar pattern.
I carry a kelly vulcan on a 28 inch handle in my truck, just incase. Along with some other stuff. Did a video on it. Look up my youtube channel if your i terested. Its called backyard self reliance.
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Nice axes and I'm glad you are posting pictures James.
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Nice! Most of my double bits are some sort of kelly. I believe the first one is a woodslasher. The second isnt marked. Its a smaller version. I believe the call em cruisers or cedar pattern.
I carry a kelly vulcan on a 28 inch handle in my truck, just incase. Along with some other stuff. Did a video on it. Look up my youtube channel if your i terested. Its called backyard self reliance.
If it's got a smaller eye and the head is in the 2-2.5lb range it would be a cruiser axe.
Does the cruiser have these distinct ridges running down the eye like this ?
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Nice! Most of my double bits are some sort of kelly. I believe the first one is a woodslasher. The second isnt marked. Its a smaller version. I believe the call em cruisers or cedar pattern.
I carry a kelly vulcan on a 28 inch handle in my truck, just incase. Along with some other stuff. Did a video on it. Look up my youtube channel if your i terested. Its called backyard self reliance.
If it's got a smaller eye and the head is in the 2-2.5lb range it would be a cruiser axe.
Does the cruiser have these distinct ridges running down the eye like this ?
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Yes but thats a boys axe. A cruiser is a small double bit
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Nice! Most of my double bits are some sort of kelly. I believe the first one is a woodslasher. The second isnt marked. Its a smaller version. I believe the call em cruisers or cedar pattern.
I carry a kelly vulcan on a 28 inch handle in my truck, just incase. Along with some other stuff. Did a video on it. Look up my youtube channel if your i terested. Its called backyard self reliance.
If it's got a smaller eye and the head is in the 2-2.5lb range it would be a cruiser axe.
Does the cruiser have these distinct ridges running down the eye like this ?
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Yes but thats a boys axe. A cruiser is a small double bit
Yes of course, a cruiser is a small double bit and a boys axe is a small single bit.
The point of the picture is the eye ridges, these are the tell of a TT Woodslasher axe, and I think the Kelly Woodslasher cruiser currently made by Barco industries even has them.
4 ridges are found in the last of the original slashers and 6 in the earlier ones.
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For some reason i bought a vintage craftsman cantilever tool box today off ebay. I dont need it, really cant think of a use for it, but ive always wanted one and this one was $50 shipped. The cstch is there is something not quite right. It may need some tweaking
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I guess we'll see how bad the damage is when it gets here. Im pretty handy, im sure i can smooth it out
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I have one of those Craftsman tool boxes I got from my father. It's mint and I actually cleaned it out of all the useless stuff from 30 years ago.
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Warning, I had the same box and they make a terrible wheel chock :))
Yeah i backed into it. Bent it pretty good but straightened enough to sell it for $10 :))
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So i needed somewhere to put more tools. Tye answer was car tool kits.
I made a pretty extensive one for my pick up. This is some of it.
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So most of this stuff is vintage usa. I had a set of vintage usa metric werenches but all of the wrenches just sitting in the bottom of the tool box made things hard to find. I was looking for tool rolls for them and came across the crescent brand. It was like ten bucks more and came witb a set of wrenches. So i got it and put my usa metrics in my roll around. Never hurts to have an extra set.
Theres alot more to this kit but im out of time for today. Maybe this weekend ill open up another tool box and show the contents. Spoiler lots of klein and channellock
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Good looking emergency kit. A great idea to put overflow tools to good use. I have similar (but smaller) kits on all my cars, but carry a fairly complete toolset in a box in my Caddy DTS. It takes up some room, but the trunk is so huge, it never becomes a problem.
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The farm truck has a pretty extensive tool selection. the others just get a HF breaker bar and socket to fit the lugnuts. anything other than that gets a wrecker call.
I've had several friends get their tools stolen from the truck box so I don't keep "good" tools in the farm truck just usable mixed bags of tools.