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GregW said:
After you find it, just keep lookin'.


For that piece of wisdom, I'll only charge you $5 Tom.
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Just charge my account ... but then most folks say I'm a no account ...

(really old joke)
 
HealeyRick said:
Don't feel bad:

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Thanks, that makes me feel better.
 
Or I'm looking for something and find something i was looking for earlier but i forgot why i was looking for it and then forget what i was currently looking for. That's when i say it's 5 o'clock somewhere and go inside and have a cold one.
 
Larry said:
I learned to put tools away after every job, when I worked professionally on vehicles. That way you knew what might have been left in the car you were working on. I have the carts, use them sparingly, too easy to leave on cart. I remember hearing a tool fall as I test drove a finished car, with the cost of tools learned rather quickly.
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Same here. Tools are cleaned and returned to their proper places after every job. I suspect between us, we've put Snap-On dealers' kids thru college. But the tool boxes are about the only things I consider the 'organized' part of my garage; I've a dandy collection of Lotus/Alfa/MG bits-n-pieces piled among dead computer cases/hard drives/power supplies... real hodgepodge of stuff.

Bob McElwee said:
Or I'm looking for something and find something i was looking for earlier but i forgot why i was looking for it and then forget what i was currently looking for. That's when i say it's 5 o'clock somewhere and go inside and have a cold one.
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BINGO!!
 
Out walking a while ago at an intersection I came across a set of Snap-on deep well sockets. Well not complete just 7 through 15 with the 10mm missing. Probable still on the ratchet in the shop.

The photo several posts ago makes me feel much better.

David

LarryK said:
I learned to put tools away after every job, when I worked professionally on vehicles. That way you knew what might have been left in the car you were working on. I have the carts, use them sparingly, too easy to leave on cart. I remember hearing a tool fall as I test drove a finished car, with the cost of tools learned rather quickly.
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Have a few roller boxes that I try to keep organized at all times. Tools go back after the day unless something is apart on the bench then the tools used to work on the part are in a box next to the part. Parts are harder but garage sales purchases of tupperwear come in handy as do old bath towels for about 20 cents. Use then they become fish rags.
 
When I found myself spending more time looking for the tool than I was on the actual repair, I decided to break down and get a tool cart / tool chest. I try to keep it relatively organized, but it's tough. Generally, at the end of each project, I go through the garage to collect the various bits and pieces I left laying about.
 
At work, we have to put the tools back as part of the job... at home, it's difficult to be bothered with it. Weird.
 
I will say; the toolboxes are organized and every piece has a "place" it is cleaned and returned to when the job is done or the day is over. I never leave a tool lying around. That was drummed into me by me Ol' Fella from childhood.


One drawer as example and the top box of the "Big Red Amana". Two other bottom boxes side by side are topped with a plywood work surface... mostly cluttered with computer bits now. <sigh>

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DrEntropy said:
I will say; the toolboxes are organized and every piece has a "place" it is cleaned and returned to when the job is done or the day is over. I never leave a tool lying around. That was drummed into me by me Ol' Fella from childhood.


One drawer as example and the top box of the "Big Red Amana". Two other bottom boxes side by side are topped with a plywood work surface... mostly cluttered with computer bits now. <sigh>

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Show off!
 
Bah. If that were the intent, I'd have put up photos of the wrench and socket drawers. :smirk:
 
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