[AT] OT: roll around tool box recommendations
Indiana Robinson
robinson at svs.net
Fri Apr 29 10:36:44 PDT 2005
I look wistfully at those big roll around units but have just become too attached to
having tools hanging in plain sight. I realize that in many shops it is necessary to be
able to lock your tools up to keep them from walking away (usually with co-workers) but
except for a few years in a local factory I have generally worked alone or with son
Scott.
I have many of my wrenches etc hanging on an "A" framed cart with pegboard panels near
the bench and work bay. It is a bit hard to describe... By being "A" shaped the tools
hang against the panel and are much more stable than just hanging them on a straight up
and down wall. It has a big shelf at the bottom inside and another smaller shelf higher
up. There is a narrow shelf a few inches down from the top that holds stuff grabbed
often. The "A" is not sharp at the top but is about 8" wide and that is where that top
shelf sits.
The guys that were here at CUBFEST 2004 saw it and a few others along. One of the things
I like about it is that I can tell from ten feet back if the most common tools are
missing and I start hunting. I keep saying that I will build a new one from scratch, this
one just sort of "grew". "Maybe next year" (official motto of most farmers). :-)
--
"farmer", Esquire
At Hewick Midwest
Wealth beyond belief, just no money...
Paternal Robinson's here by way of Norway (Clan Gunn), Scottish Highlands,
Cleasby Yorkshire England, Virginia, Kentucky then Indiana. In America 100
years
before the revolution.
Francis Robinson
Central Indiana USA
robinson at svs.net
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