How to organize a tool box
For sockets:
Then I can take it and take it with me without my sockets going loose, if I want to work in the yard, house, neighboring state, etc.
I fill it up and remove empty pegs. Then, if I see a hole, I know I'm missing a socket or two and then it drives me knuts until I find 'em. Mac makes the best ones out there and they be cheap, too.
For wrainches:
Again, a leather strap around them and they're 50-state portable. See an empty hole and you know dropped one down an intake or something. Ditto Mac tools. I color code mine: Red is standard, one for 6 and one for 12 point. Green for metric. They stack well and take up very little space in my box. (Note, I leave Matco tools on the side of the road. This is just a representative image.)
For me, I hate wasted space in a tool box. Snap-on is the worst because their drawers are too short so everything has to lay down. Mac boxes have drawers that are just tall enough that all my sockets can stand on end (Ten-hut!) which saves New-Yorker-trunk-loads of space and also makes it easy to see if I'm grabbing 6 or 12 point, if there's dirt in it (Ever wash your sockets in a dishmachine before building an engine? Works great), etc. I can lay a multimeter on it's side in my box, frees up a ton of room. I stack bulky/infrequent use items, and the Mac boxes make it possible.
For screwdrivers, I employ:
I orient all the phillips on one side of the magnet, nested into the flatheads on the other side. Side bennie: It magnetizes my blades which is useful in picking non-stainless fasteners. I have an additional rail for Allen and Torx drivers.
When I did Harleys, I did so many belts and inner primaries, 5/10/20K services, and wheel/tires that I reserved the top drawer of my box (which is divvied up into 3 equal parts) for all the tools that were specific to these jobs. Doing an inner primary? Open one drawer and every tool I need is right there. Saves a ton of time when you're flat-rate.
For sockets:
Then I can take it and take it with me without my sockets going loose, if I want to work in the yard, house, neighboring state, etc.
I fill it up and remove empty pegs. Then, if I see a hole, I know I'm missing a socket or two and then it drives me knuts until I find 'em. Mac makes the best ones out there and they be cheap, too.
For wrainches:
Again, a leather strap around them and they're 50-state portable. See an empty hole and you know dropped one down an intake or something. Ditto Mac tools. I color code mine: Red is standard, one for 6 and one for 12 point. Green for metric. They stack well and take up very little space in my box. (Note, I leave Matco tools on the side of the road. This is just a representative image.)
For me, I hate wasted space in a tool box. Snap-on is the worst because their drawers are too short so everything has to lay down. Mac boxes have drawers that are just tall enough that all my sockets can stand on end (Ten-hut!) which saves New-Yorker-trunk-loads of space and also makes it easy to see if I'm grabbing 6 or 12 point, if there's dirt in it (Ever wash your sockets in a dishmachine before building an engine? Works great), etc. I can lay a multimeter on it's side in my box, frees up a ton of room. I stack bulky/infrequent use items, and the Mac boxes make it possible.
For screwdrivers, I employ:
I orient all the phillips on one side of the magnet, nested into the flatheads on the other side. Side bennie: It magnetizes my blades which is useful in picking non-stainless fasteners. I have an additional rail for Allen and Torx drivers.
When I did Harleys, I did so many belts and inner primaries, 5/10/20K services, and wheel/tires that I reserved the top drawer of my box (which is divvied up into 3 equal parts) for all the tools that were specific to these jobs. Doing an inner primary? Open one drawer and every tool I need is right there. Saves a ton of time when you're flat-rate.
