Tool Storage

**IntheGroove** · Apr 1, 2023, 03:51 AM

To store tools, draw outlines of tools on a board. Add hooks and screws. Hang tools. *tools do not need to match drawings...

**mklotz** · Apr 1, 2023, 08:36 AM

Stuff of nightmares for people with OCD.

**WmRMeyers** · Apr 1, 2023, 01:30 PM

Originally Posted by IntheGroove

To store tools, draw outlines of tools on a board. Add hooks and screws. Hang tools. *tools do not need to match drawings...

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The hell they don't!!!!

Back when I was a young pup, the USAF decided that we needed our tools bedded in cutouts in foam sheeting that filled the toolbox drawers. Consolidated Tool Kits or CTK's they called them. They were supposed to be inventoried as they were checked in and out, to prevent FOD (foreign object damage) to the jet engines. We were all supposed to turn in all the toolboxes and get new ones issued to us that were identical. Except that the toolbox I was given originally was full of 193 pounds of Globemaster wrenches and ratchets and such. Some of the more senior guys had boxes of Craftsman tools, and I strongly suspect that they were swapping out the Craftsman stuff for Globemaster. For you young pups, Globemaster was the brand of the tools that you could get a whole set of open-ended wrenches on a card for $1. Not as good a quality as modern Pittsburgh tools from Harbor Freight, these days. And I was having to work on a $27 million fighter bomber with this crap. The base exchange service station, out at Tinker AFB has similar stuff now, and the tool packages are$5-15, IIRC. At least one of the Ace hardware stores near here also has them, though the prices are a bit higher, there.