Whats in Your Tool Box?

[kirky]

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.

Cheers

[Tank]

Great idea.  I haven't done any work on my layout for ages, so my tools are scattered amongst the general tools in my workshop.

[exmouthcraig]

Nice idea @kirky can we extend it to the workbench?? And see what mess some of us work in???

I'm off to get some photos!!!

[crewearpley40]

Due to my space constraints i brought plastic stackable containers  with tight lids and during the refurb the plonker of a workman, left a toolbag. I rang up to say he left it, theynever came back. Months later, i had drill  drill bits  screwdrivers  stanley knife, pliers, scraper ,tape measure  masking tape. ended up with other bits. Plus i had soldering kit, craft knife  8 piece drill bit, swann morton scalpel, tweezers, dowel,  brasso, trackcleaner
Paintbrushes. Free pva, free tape, still calling company to be rid of lino cutter andbits i dont need

[kirky]

Great idea.  I haven't done any work on my layout for ages, so my tools are scattered amongst the general tools in my workshop.

Me too kind of. My other hobby is woodworking so I have a lot of tools. Basically a garage full. I also have a train room, well its a converted loft and it is a mess - a big mess.

Nice idea @kirky can we extend it to the workbench?? And see what mess some of us work in???

I'm off to get some photos!!!

So by all means include work benches, just not mine- its way too messy.
I also have a tool box that I take with me to the club. This I will be showing when I get round to taking photos.

Confession time - its not my idea - saw it in the Merg magazine I think, where they have area groups who meet. One topic they discuss is 'whats in your tool box?' so not my idea, but thought it was a good topic for the forum.

No pictures yet and this is the only tool related emoji I can find 
cheers

[SMason]

I'm keen to see what people have gathered together for putting together a railway. My tool box isn't a box as such. It's a pegboard above the workbench. More stuff needs adding I'm sure, but for now I have what I need where I need it. This is it as of last week;

https://drive.google.com/file/d/17kdV8P0AweK7-3BNJfCTDmByNSpDRR68/view?usp=drivesdk

Currently, it has bits of card and half assembled kits strewn over one half and the other half of under a layer of fabric and a sewing machine (my fiancee is an avid quilter and our 'craft room' is very much a shared space).

Sam.

[exmouthcraig]

New picture that is in focus

Glad I had a bit of a tidy up today!!!!

Bench isn't big enough to get everything on so theres part of the layout on trestles behind me that buildings and parts of the project get shifted onto.

Spraybooth and airbrushed are on another bench so all 3 can be got to in 2 scoots of the swivel chair

@SMason wow!!!! That's far too tidy and organised!!!!!!

[emjaybee]

There is something seriously wrong with you two. Talk about tidy freaks!

As it used to say on the wall of our Facilities Management that I was part off...

"A tidy desk is the sign of a sick mind".



This is my 'comfort zone', a place for everything, and everything in it's place...

...my way.

[exmouthcraig]

 

That's what mine looked like this morning but I was that fed up with working in an ever shrinking space i had to do something about it.

It was so bad I couldn't even use my 6" rule there was that little space!!! 

[emjaybee]

That's what mine looked like this morning but I was that fed up with working in an ever shrinking space i had to do something about it.

It was so bad I couldn't even use my 6" rule there was that little space!!! 

Whatya tryin' to say?

[exmouthcraig]

When I'm working on my bench that's what it looks like, when I get the opportunity to show people how I work, I tidy up!!

[njee20]

My workbench is utterly shambolic! To actually use it I first have to clear a space of the appropriate size (and not an inch bigger!), only for the amorphous blob of crap to subsume it once again when my back is turned.

This means any other flat surface just becomes an extension of my workbench. The railway is thusly covered in tinlets of paint, tools etc. 

[chrism]

There is something seriously wrong with you two. Talk about tidy freaks!

As it used to say on the wall of our Facilities Management that I was part off...

"A tidy desk is the sign of a sick mind".



This is my 'comfort zone', a place for everything, and everything in it's place...

...my way.

And if you ever tidy it up, you then spend ages looking for things - that's my experience, anyway 

[emjaybee]

Exactly.

[The Q]

 I have enough tools to sink Build a battleship, well, an 18ft sailing boat, which I did, and a 63ft Model railway shed. So there is no way you're going to get pictures of all the stuff spread across 3 sheds.

However for railway modelling, I, this weekend, have started building a new toolbox of plywood.  About 2 foot long 1 ft wide and about 14 inches tall, Apart from the top tray it will have pull out drawers, as I'm fed up of ferreting around in the bottom, looking for things.

The deepest drawer is 2 inches, as it will have the largest tools in, the pin pusher for instance has a fat handle..
The pliers etc will fit in a 1.5 in deep drawer,
The Knives, files, will fit in a 1 inch deep drawer..

There will be a second tool box with the same outside dimensions, containing a solder station (including hot air blower), DMM, PAT tester, fuses, larger screw drivers (HV rated), wire strippers, pliers and anything else I require.

Eventually when I finish my work benches in the railway shed, there will be positions created at the back of each for each toolbox.