boboneleg Posted January 24, 2021 Author Share Posted January 24, 2021 1 hour ago, Tym said: You neat freaks are disturbing types im red flagging the lot of you. Fuckmine, not a single gun in those drawers , what's going on 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Fallsalot Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 1 hour ago, Tym said: You neat freaks are disturbing types im red flagging the lot of you. I'm with you @Tym This tool chest i acquired when the Linde forklift factory closed. The boys that worked there were selling them off after they finished. they were full of tools as well but i have no use for a 1" drive socket set so just had the chest and a large steel cabinet This tool bench was also something i sort of picked up. It was on a site i was working on and i had spotted it outside while they renovated their workshop and it was still there when i turned up to do a job two years later. I just happened to be in a van large enough to fit it in that week and after asking the engineer we were working for if i could have it he said get it in the van quick when nobody is about, so it came home. When we turned up on site the next day some twat had been in in the night and stole the cable we had pulled in the day before. When the police were there the engineer only went and told the police that the workbench had been stolen as well FFS As for organised i made this to tidy up all the 3/8 drive stuff i have acquired over the years as i only seem to use the 1/4" or 3/8" socket sets on the bikes i needed it where i could find it 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yen_powell Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 When I first had a garage I had all my most used sockets on a plastic wall board, really easy to get at and also to see if anything was missing. Think I bought them from Halfords in the mid 90s, they stopped doing them a little while after. I still have one with a few sockets on, then I started moving stuff about to get my ramp in and switched to more stuff in my tool boxes and decided to have a crack at the foam when lockdown started. It's easy to do, just cut round the tools and peel out how many layers you need for the right depth. My spanners were on cup hooks screwed into a long piece of random wood, with say two 8mms on the first hook, a couple of 10mms on the second hook etc up to 27mm. You occasionally need two spanners the same size up to about 17mm I have found. The piece of wood is still on the wall only now it has a few T bars hanging on it and a couple of IKEA LED anglepoise desk lamps, plugged in, which I can slot into the bike ramp on either side if I need extra light on the subject. I do have some of those hanging cabled or battery lights but they always seem to twist and shine the wrong way at a critical moment, usually right into my eyes. My work bench (which is mostly covered in crap) and half the cost of my compressor was bought with my 25 years long service money I got in 2011. If I had it as cash in my wages it was taxed at full rate, if I bought something and showed them the bill I didn't pay any tax and they transferred it into my bank account. Apparently you used to get a clock in the 50s but they changed it to cash later on. My long service certificate arrived unwrapped in a box with 4 others and it had been thrown about so was scratched to buggery, it has pride of place in my toilet!!! It is however signed by our first ever directly elected Mayor who later went on to get himself chucked out of office for electoral fraud. He's standing again this year, his ban is up. The 4 people who took him to court and won have never received any costs from him to this day, some may have lost their homes over a case that the government should have funded by rights. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catteeclan Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 Cup hocks, you were lucky, we used nails which had prob been used before. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yen_powell Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 57 minutes ago, Catteeclan said: Cup hocks, you were lucky, we used nails which had prob been used before. Couple of nails were for holding my torque wrenches between. They're still on the same bit of wood. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 14 minutes ago, Lone Amigo said: Tools... Sigh ........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Fallsalot Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 New tool box arrived today it's a bit bigger than i thought it was going to be took two of us to lift it when empty, filled it with shitty old tools think i might do some shopping 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 12 minutes ago, Sir Fallsalot said: New tool box arrived today it's a bit bigger than i thought it was going to be took two of us to lift it when empty, filled it with shitty old tools think i might do some shopping 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 15 minutes ago, Sir Fallsalot said: New tool box arrived today it's a bit bigger than i thought it was going to be took two of us to lift it when empty, filled it with shitty old tools think i might do some shopping Looks sweet! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boboneleg Posted February 9, 2021 Author Share Posted February 9, 2021 Looks ace Fred, take no notice of Pete , he just wants to see your polishing cloths 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 59 minutes ago, boboneleg said: Looks ace Fred, take no notice of Pete , he just wants to see your polishing cloths Fred with polishing cloths? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Fallsalot Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 5 hours ago, XTreme said: Fred with polishing cloths? Ahh but I've got you there because i do have polishing cloths so there And they've been kept safe in this cupboard since i bought them 2 years ago don't want to risk getting them dirty do i 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 2 minutes ago, Sir Fallsalot said: Ahh but I've got you there because i do have polishing cloths so there And they've been kept safe in this cupboard since i bought them 2 years ago don't want to risk getting them dirty do i Are those @yen_powell's underpants underneath? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Fallsalot Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 22 hours ago, Bruce said: Oooohhh crow foot flats. I've wanted to try those as my dexterity fades. Any good? I've only ever used them in work @Bruce for torqueing busbar bolts as the gap between them can be a bit tight for sockets like this on a generator i connected last month. Ignore the piece of wood that was holding everything in place while i connected it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boboneleg Posted February 9, 2021 Author Share Posted February 9, 2021 57 minutes ago, XTreme said: Are those @yen_powell's underpants underneath? Don't be ridiculous they're far too clean. If you look at his strides in this photo they're much more to his liking 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Fallsalot Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 1 minute ago, boboneleg said: Don't be ridiculous they're far too clean. If you look at his strides in this photo they're much more to his liking Was the water clean before he rode through 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boboneleg Posted February 9, 2021 Author Share Posted February 9, 2021 Just now, Sir Fallsalot said: Was the water clean before he rode through That ford is a crystal clear Wiltshire chalk river, or it was until he got there. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 2 minutes ago, boboneleg said: That ford is a crystal clear Wiltshire chalk river, or it was until he got there. Killed off all the fish for hundreds of miles I heard! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyrider Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 8 minutes ago, XTreme said: Killed off all the fish for hundreds of miles I heard! saw them all floating on top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 4 minutes ago, skyrider said: saw them all floating on top Yeh......people thought it was the Seventh Sign! Then someone said....."No it was just that dirty cunt @yen_powell splashing about in there". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yen_powell Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 43 minutes ago, Sir Fallsalot said: Was the water clean before he rode through Those boots are wedged under the workbench in the garage. My neighbour gave them to me out of the blue one day, along with a pair of trousers, gloves, knee and elbow pads and a few other bits because his back was shot and he had no plans to ride a motocross bike again like he used to. He just rode his Suzuki V- twin rorty road bike to get his 2 wheel fix he said. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tym Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 Gretta Thumbutt will have a cow when she gets wind of this. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 My favorite tool in my shop; the Mighty Logan. Turning a shock preload spacer for a guy out of 3" aluminum bar stock... 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 30 minutes ago, Earache said: My favorite tool in my shop; the Mighty Logan. Turning a shock preload spacer for a guy out of 3" aluminum bar stock... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Fallsalot Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 1 hour ago, Earache said: My favorite tool in my shop; the Mighty Logan. Turning a shock preload spacer for a guy out of 3" aluminum bar stock... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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