I haven't seen that kit but i do keep 4 or 5 of each of those particular wrenches / sockets though.


Cole

 

I also remember those sets..Used to get them to supply the tool Gnomes living under the work bench.

I used to have a Basset hound that was a tool thief. He would sneak end wrenches, extensions and other long items away while being used under a car etc . Then I would find them later in the yard or driveway.

 

I seldom permanently lose a tool but sometimes can have 3-4 of the same size "somewhere" in my shop that are out of sight forcing me to get another out of my toolbox, then the number goes to 4-5. Eventually I run out of a couple of sizes and do a major clean up so I can at least start all over again. My shopping list currently has a set of 1/4" drive sockets, a couple of long 10 and 12mm sockets and a couple 1/4" mag nut drivers for my cordless driver

 

While ridding my bike you would not believer all the tools I have spotted and retrieved from the side of the roads .. So keep your eye out as you motor around .... could find you own tools out there.


to quote another poster

I just kill myself sometimes ........

 

I also remember those sets..Used to get them to supply the tool Gnomes living under the work bench.

I used to have a Basset hound that was a tool thief. He would sneak end wrenches, extensions and other long items away while being used under a car etc . Then I would find them later in the yard or driveway.

ROFLOL ! I thought my weinerdog was the only tool thief.

 

ROFLOL ! I thought my weinerdog was the only tool thief.

I had a "mechanical" TURKEY. Whenever I was wrenching on something, she'd be right there - usually her head would pop up between me and whatever I was working on.

Though she wouldn't actually steal my tools, she would go through whatever tool tray I was using and pick out all the shiny chrome wrenches.

Was at Sears one day, and saw a little bitty miniature Craftsman tool apron for 99 cents. Bought one for the turkey ... figured I'd take some photos just for a hoot.

Sadly, the turkey died a few days later, before I could present her with her gift. When I buried her, I placed the apron in the grave along with an appropriately size 6mm chrome wrench. No junk either, it was a freakin' Snap-On wrench I'd owned since the the early '70s!

Yeah, I'm kinda goofy that way ..... :drunk:

 

I also remember those sets..Used to get them to supply the tool Gnomes living under the work bench.
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We used to have what we called the "Shop Phantom" at work.
He was the one who got blamed for things disappearing and for leaving messes behind ... etc.

I don't work there anymore, but that "esso bee" must have followed me home! :embarrass

Being that we're in a agricultural area, we also used to offer an exclusive "germination warranty" on the tools that we sold in the store.

"If you plant these tools and they don't grow, just bring back the seed and we'll replace it."

 

We have an old border collie she doesnt take tools but she will get under what you are working on and guard it she will grawl and nip your ankels but its all just play though.
No one has seen any of these tool kits for sale anywhere?

 

Good work habits will keep you from loosing tools. If you put things away as soon as you are done with them they tend not to get lost. A well organized box will also show right away if something is missing.

 

Good work habits will keep you from loosing tools. If you put things away as soon as you are done with them they tend not to get lost. A well organized box will also show right away if something is missing.

Kill joy!!!! ain:

 

Good work habits will keep you from loosing tools. If you put things away as soon as you are done with them they tend not to get lost. A well organized box will also show right away if something is missing.

You're right, of course.
I'm in the midst of doing a whole bunch of home reno's and waste a whole lot of time trying to remember where I used "that tool" last.

I eventually get frustrated to the point of spending an hour or so just rounding everything up and putting it away in it's proper place. Then I make several trips back out to the garage getting one tool at a time ... and the cycle repeats! :embarrass

 

Good work habits will keep you from loosing tools. If you put things away as soon as you are done with them they tend not to get lost. A well organized box will also show right away if something is missing.

I would agree the problem is my tools dont always stay in the shop besides the 1971 corvette the tools are mostly used on all kinds of farm equipment in the field tractors,high boys and hay bailers have alot of good places to set tools and forget about them .
Alot of the time I am not the person using the tools
I think I am going to go up to Sears and buy about 10 of each size socket and wrench 7/16,1/2,9/16 and 5/8

 

I really hate hunting for a tool I KNOW I have, but cant find. LOST? Yes, I would say that qualifies as lost since I cant find it.

I have picked up used tools and used portable toolboxes here and there over the last 20 years. When I ran out of toolbox storage for the tools I would bring home, I would buy another used toolbox to put more tools in.

I had about 15 heavy toolboxes full of all kinds of hand tools. I had one or two drawer boxes that I worked out of, and the rest of the boxes were stashed under the workbench, on shelves, etc.

I wanted to get all my tools organized. I eventually picked up a roll around with mid and top boxes, and hung up peg board in my garage. I went through all those portable boxes, got everything organized, wrenches, sockets, ratchets, screwdrivers, pliers, files, hammers, etc.

The wierd thing is that once I separated all the wrenches, I had about sixty 5/8 combination wrenches. I didnt have near that many of any other size. The next nearest was probably twenty 1/2 combination wrenches.

5/8 must be a pretty popular wrench size.

Mike

 

Good work habits will keep you from loosing tools. If you put things away as soon as you are done with them they tend not to get lost. A well organized box will also show right away if something is missing.

You are so right. My tools at home get put away immediately after I'm finished working. My tools in the truck find their way back too, but there's always a few stragglers that fall off bumpers and get left in pockets :sweat: ... That's why the nice stuff stays at home!

 

If you have one of a wrench, you usually know where it is cause you keep track of it. If you have two,you might find one. If you have more than two. its time to go buy another.
Account for every tool at the end of every day. Even the one that fell inside the frame and slid clear to the other end of the car.

 

The surest way to find that wrench that you haven't seen in weeks is to go out and buy another.

Similarly:
Have you ever dropped a wrench (or even a small, but essential part) in the grass? You could search for hours ... or just purposely drop another. Inevitably, it seems, they both land in nearly the same place! (or so it seems, anyway) :thumbup:

 

The surest way to find that wrench that you haven't seen in weeks is to go out and buy another.

Similarly:
Have you ever dropped a wrench (or even a small, but essential part) in the grass? You could search for hours ... or just purposely drop another. Inevitably, it seems, they both land in nearly the same place! (or so it seems, anyway) :thumbup:

I downloaded the metal detector app to my phone for just this instance :thumbup:

 

Similarly:
Have you ever dropped a wrench (or even a small, but essential part) in the grass? You could search for hours ... or just purposely drop another. Inevitably, it seems, they both land in nearly the same place! (or so it seems, anyway) :thumbup:

If my big old magnet fails, I can usually find them with the lawn mower.

 

I used to have a Golden that would steal parts but never tools. There's nothing like coming out of the engine compartment after installing all your sparkplugs and having to hunt for the distributor cap you set next to the car. After a few minutes it turns up in the middle of the yard half chewed apart.

 

My problem is when I don't write down what I loan out....for some strange reason, if I don't write it down, they always get 'lost'.....

 

My problem is when I don't write down what I loan out....for some strange reason, if I don't write it down, they always get 'lost'.....

That was my biggest problem too.....Friends. I solved it though....I moved 100 miles away from them....... :thumbup:

 

I was (keyword "was") in the habit of either lending or selling some of my tools (or even parts) to customers.

One of the earliest occurences (1979) was also the biggest ... a 3.25:1 ring and pinion for my 75 Dart 8-1/4 posi. I had special-ordered them and was waiting to have them installed in our shop, when a retail customer on holidays showed up with a broken diff. I rather begrudgingly let the shop have them, along with a promise to re-order and get my car in the shop the next week. Guess what? 3.25's were on B/O, and someone (not me) agreed to let the Chrysler dealership sub 2.71 gears. Nope, not returnable. ain:

Booster cables, was another example. I bought a GOOD set of them when NAPA had them on a "tradeshow" sale, and had tried to convince my boss (the store owner) to order at least 3 or 4 sets.

"No, they're too much money. The average Joe wants the cheaper ones. I don't want to carry them in inventory."

Strangely enough ... the ones we had in stock were never "good enough" for "Average Joe" when it got real cold! I'm sure that I made at least 3 or 4 trips home to get my cables in order to sell them (and to re-order them for myself).

I quit doing it when I realized that some of the items that I had re-sold or lent had gone missing. I'm reasonably sure that some of the other staff had unknowingly returned my "loaner" stuff to the shelf when the customer returned them.

 

That was my biggest problem too.....Friends. I solved it though....I moved 100 miles away from them....... :thumbup:

Exactly !!!!.....But it was my son that moved away from me!!!....I no longer miss tools since he moved....I wonder what he was doing with them ,he dam sure didn't work on his truck with them.....I wound up fixing his truck all of the time ........Hummmmm?
Kenny

 

Oh yeah - a son that used my tools. I could always tell. They were always greasy and facing every which way - that is if they made it back to the tool box. I ended up buying him a nice Craftsman set for Xmas when they always have the good specials and locking my tool box :nono: He has moved away, but is in a financial position that he pays someone else to get their hands dirty now

Dave W :evil:

 

Tool stealing dog !

Hi,i had a minature golden retriever (runt) 35 lbs full grown, she would swipe my tools,and if i yelled at her,she would go bring them back,she loved that game,i never yelled mad,just joking,shes probably the only dog that has a people sized headstone,and her own burial plot. fantastic dog !!!!!!!