Tool box show & tell

[DuckusCrapus]

Post of pic of you box of tools. Whether it is a small box to a huge roller. Tool boxes are the holsters to our guns.

Your box sentimental? Explain
Your box have payments that is more than your car? Post it up.
You box a cardboard box that is what you like to use? Post it!


DC

[DuckusCrapus]

Nobody? Man...I will take a pic of my junky mismatched crap boxes to get it started. Figured box & chest porn would be up everyone's alley.


DC

[CamaroDoc]

Man, I have more tool boxes than any one man should be allowed, but I do work in various different locations. I use a combination of toolboxes and pegboards... One shop has 4 boxes and 7 tool boards. My teardown shop currently has 5 boxes and two walls that are pegboard. 5 storage units which all have cars in them have at least 1 box and 1 or 2 tool boards each...

[Bluedot]

Been meaning to post my little toolbox ever since this thread started, finally gettin' round tuit. This is a very special box Duck & family gave me for Christmas one year. Art was by Hag, which tells you it was quite a while ago. I am into this box for one thing or another almost every day.
BTW, the "H&H" is Hammer & Hacksaw Engineering, which is the way we build a lot of our stuff. What we don't break or ruin in the process gets driven.

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[Wrenchbender]

Oh boy do I have some good stuff for this thread but your gonna have to wait a bit for me to get some pics taken I don’t have anything special but you will probly get a kick out of my junk that’s for sure

[CamaroDoc]

Here are a couple of my boxes at the teardown shop... Nothing fancy. One is a used Snap-on lower from a pawn shop, with a US General upper box that I have been very impressed with. You can also see the tool/parts wall that is fairly loaded. The other is your basic Craftsman top chest, also from a pawn shop but the best part is the 8' formica countertop workbench. It's purposely higher than normal for working on smaller parts without having to bend over even a little bit. It's been impervious to every chemical I have managed to throw at it. $90 well spent... If you look closely in the back of the first pic, you can see another US General tool cart with a small metal lathe on it and a grey plastic cart with a wood lathe on it... Got another couple boxes with really uninteresting tools in them. The mill and mill base are a different story.

[DuckusCrapus]

Getting that box for Bluedot was fun. Crazy to think Hag has been gone so long now.


Doc, that looks pretty good! Well organized for sure. We need to see that injection setup in use!!!

DC

[DuckusCrapus]

Here is my setup. Nothing matches, and some of it is brutally cheap or beat up. I like it though, but maybe I would dig a big high end setup and I just don't know it.


DC


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[Wrenchbender]

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ok so here’s my first tool box is my 400,000 mile plus 98 dodge diesel I know it don’t look like much but it’s probly my most expensive and most used tool box yes it’s a mess but I know exactly where everything is I work out of this pile every day yes I actually have a garage and an actual shop I work at but day after day I find myself working out in the back 40 getting parts for a current project or for that matter building one back there my go to tool set is the blue case I bought 6 years ago from the cornwell tool guy I give $400 for it at the time I wish I had bought 4 of them but hindsight is 20/20 that tool set has everything metric and standard from 3 mm to 19mm and from 3/16 to 1” short and deep sockets all 1/4 and 3/8 drive along with every 1/4 bit driver cornwell makes also has wrenches standard and metric up to 3/4 or 19mm that kit now costs almost a $1000 I’m glad I bought it when it was cheap stay tuned I have way more to share but don’t expect much I don’t have anything fancy

[Wrenchbender]

ok so this is in my home shop the craftsman setup in the corner was my uncles he give to me many many years ago it’s fairly organized except th bottom of the box the very top is all 1/2” and 3/4 drive stuff th bottom drawer is body hammers and big air tool stuff it looks like a mess but I don’t have time to polish every socket or screwdriver and put it in the right holder there’s a drawer for each thing ratchets in one 1/4 drive in another and so on and so forth the middle box I’ve had for years actually worked out of it at my dads shop way back when but when I closed it down I brought it home it hasn’t moved since the other one next to it is full of junk but the stuff you seem to always need clips nutserts it was just once of those things I bought on a whim for cheap one time now the Kennedy box’s were my grandfathers and it’s pretty much like he left it it has a bunch of taps dies and machinist stuff in it I do use it a lot and once again it looks like a mess but plus can tell you what every drawer has in it at pretty much any point

[CamaroDoc]

I've been kicking around the idea of doing something with the Hilborn. About a month ago I picked up a bunch of stuff from a storage clean out, including 3 Chevy small blocks. One of them is a 4 bolt main block with a forged 327 crank. The rods and forged pop up pistons came with it. Just need to assemble it with a top end. No clue what I would drop it into, though. It's an alky race setup...

[Wrenchbender]

Man doc your gonna have to have a pretty rowdy motor to use that injector on that thing looks like it’s got a pretty big throttle bore

[CamaroDoc]

Yeah, I'm not real sure why I bought it but the price was right. I was at a NETO nostalgia event at Maple Grove when I came across it. I picked up the Moon cover at Pate, and the water manifold from Jacks Machine out of Kansas. Still need the little pump drive to make it functional...