Whats in Your Tool Box?

[Newportnobby]

My bungalow is my toolbox and I have railway bits in every room except the bathroom. Even then, I might have squirrelled something away in there
I do try to keep track of essential tools or I find I'll believe I haven't got that 'necessary bit' and end up buying another one only to find the original later that day
There's no doubt I have way too much 'stuff' and there is also no doubt I have 'all the gear and no idea'

[monkey_brains]

There's no doubt I have way too much 'stuff' [

It sounds like you are quoting my wife there

Strange how she goes quiet when the random tool or screw suddenly fixes something broken in the home!

[railsquid]

Would people care to post pictures of their tool boxes and more importantly, tool box contents?
I would imagine there are some lovely little gems of tools that people have that you would never imagine have a place in an Ngauge tool box.

In the spirit of the original post, here's the contents of the Railsquid Motive Power Repair and Light Detailing Department's collection of tools'n'bits, scrounged together from their various hiding places:


tools by Rail Squid, on Flickr


Missing from the picture is the gear puller. (Yes, I do own some Graham Farish locomotives, why do you ask?)

This thread from the start of the decade may also be of interest:
What's the best tool in your modelling toolbox and why

[railsquid]

Missing from the picture is the gear puller. (Yes, I do own some Graham Farish locomotives, why do you ask?)

While looking for the gear puller it occurred to me there's a bunch of other stuff which sees a lot of use:


more tools by Rail Squid, on Flickr

(said gear puller at the top, hard to see because of the light from the desk lamp, which fell off the back of a lorry, figuratively speaking, at Mrs. Railsquid's workplace once).

[Newportnobby]

Wot - no hammer?

Actually, thinking about it the biggest tool in my toolbox is me

[kirky]

Thanks for that @railsquid. Very interesting that.
Whats in the bottle top right - picture one?
Whats that blue handle thing in picture one?

Thanks for posting.
Kirky

[dannyboy]

I am with @Newportnobby  except Louisa has been known to ask why is there a little paintbrush in the bathroom and "what's this thing!" (Pipette). So of course I tell her that they are there drying as they needed washing.

[railsquid]

Whats in the bottle top right - picture one?

Kato Unicleaner (24-020) which I use for wheel and track cleaning purposes; is probably IPA or a close relative thereof.

Whats that blue handle thing in picture one?

That has a thin metal wedge which is useful for sliding between plastic parts, for example when removing  a locomotive body.