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At about the 40-year point, you learn to count down the drawers.
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Heeheee... I moved my main toopbox (large Snap-On refrigerator sized thing) with the "help" of friends. Removed the drawers to load it into the trailer and they helped re-inserted them after it was home. Trouble is, the drawers weren't all put back into their original order. For about six weeks I'd go for the screw-stick drawer and be looking at a drawer full of micrometers, or go for a pair of pliers and find instead a drawer with pop rivet guns, paperwork and threaded nut-zerts.... took the time to rearrange all to original positions out of frustration. Hard to break decades of habit!
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I put lables on magneting strips so I can easily move the lables if I want to rearrange things. (Even with the lables I sometimes open the wrong drawer)
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I went through a phase where I was buying a ton of toolboxes on craigslist. .. even bought a couple while I was down in Florida... Drentropy can verify, I filled that government truck up
... Now acquiring all the tools to fill them all up. Itll take 40 years probably. I use a label maker to mark all the drawers I have stuff in. Can toss them on magnetic strips as well. Works good, and the label makers are cheap. I still search through multiple drawers when it comes to specialty sockets, but its usually good on the first pull of the handle. Next thing is to try and 1up drentropys small toolbox makeover. Too many irons in the fire at the moment though.
... Now acquiring all the tools to fill them all up. Itll take 40 years probably. I use a label maker to mark all the drawers I have stuff in. Can toss them on magnetic strips as well. Works good, and the label makers are cheap. I still search through multiple drawers when it comes to specialty sockets, but its usually good on the first pull of the handle. Next thing is to try and 1up drentropys small toolbox makeover. Too many irons in the fire at the moment though.
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This is genius boss! just move the labels to accommodate my messiness/cluelessness - brilliant!
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I'm still searching for the micrometer that I'm sure I have. It will show up after I buy another one.
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With top and bottom boxes and drawers 18 in all screw drivers air tools body tools hammers electric tools two drawers for Standard and Metric wrenches that I painted two colors to keep in line drill and taps drawer two socket drawers 3/8 and 1/2 drives. if more than three were open I think it would fall over and I would still open the wrong one. When I was working I had to supply two set of hand tools one for my helper and two or three of a kind of tool because if I dropped one it could fall 20 floors. and a complete set of car tool for my home box. now retired I Still have to dig through to find that 9/16 wrench after the right drawer. Madflyer
My biggest peeve with the red Craftsman roll around pictured was having to clear off the stuff on the shelf where the chest meets the lower box in order to open the chest’s lowest drawer! This persistent and unavoidable trouble is due to the well known “law of attraction” regarding empty flat surfaces.
I identify with that one perfectly.
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My biggest peeve with the red Craftsman roll around pictured was having to clear off the stuff on the shelf where the chest meets the lower box in order to open the chest’s lowest drawer! This persistent and unavoidable trouble is due to the well known “law of attraction” regarding empty flat surfaces.
I second!!
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Amen!... the well known “law of attraction” regarding empty flat surfaces.
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This is genius boss! just move the labels to accommodate my messiness/cluelessness - brilliant!
My tools are one of the very few areas of my life that is somewhate organized.