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    Posted: 15-April-2016 at 1:50PM
The wife wanted a screwdriver.
Out we went to my trusty Craftsman box.
She saw the tools in my old box and thinks maybe I have too many...
I started poking thru, and when I got to 18 ratchets, I stopped counting.
She might be right.
I'll never admit it though.
LOL
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote legend onirot Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15-April-2016 at 2:18PM
but if you are like me... when you need one, you cant find it.... then you run to the store and buy one only to find the 18 after you get home.  
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Big Bird Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15-April-2016 at 2:37PM
Probably shouldn't admit this, but there are more in the truck...
And in the toolbox in the garage...
And in the drawers in the workbench...
And in my desk at work...
There's also a black chrome set in the little box in the T-bird...
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote californiajohnny Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15-April-2016 at 3:27PM
Originally posted by legend onirot legend onirot wrote:

but if you are like me... when you need one, you cant find it.... then you run to the store and buy one only to find the 18 after you get home.  

i thought that only applies to razor knifesConfused
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I have alot of tools. I may not be able to
Find it righta away. But I know that I have it. Trying to
get alot more organized.
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Originally posted by antlerfiend antlerfiend wrote:

I have alot of tools. I may not be able to
Find it righta away. But I know that I have it. Trying to
get alot more organized.
yeah, electricity and lights in there would help a lot to find them LOLLOLLOL
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There is no such thing.
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Wife came into the shop one day and started counting my cars, complaining to me about why I need so many and what will I ever do with them. After all, she said, I can only drive one at a time!
I took her by the hand and marched her into the house and started counting purses and shoes. About halfway through she stopped me and said I made my point
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Originally posted by 67gt5003119 67gt5003119 wrote:

Wife came into the shop one day and started counting my cars, complaining to me about why I need so many and what will I ever do with them. After all, she said, I can only drive one at a time!
I took her by the hand and marched her into the house and started counting purses and shoes. About halfway through she stopped me and said I made my point
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Too many tools? That is like have too much money, too much love, too much gasoline, too much BBQ...no such thing!
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I don't have enough.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote unlovedford Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24-April-2016 at 1:29AM
I worked at Sears for 5 years when I was young. Hardware department which had all the tools. When they would go through mark downs, I would buy as many as I could. Now, years layer and many visits to Lowes, Home Depot, Harbor Freight, and Northern Tool, I have spent the last 3 weekends gathering up tools from every there (house, cars, outside, all the garages, etc) just to get them organized. I should make pictures and post them to share in my embarrassment.

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Found 2 more ratchets under the seat in the T-bird...
I can't say I remember these two...
Still can't find my 1/2" New Britain ratchet with the push-thru square plug. Ratchet doesn't reverse, you turn it over. Found it in a Junkyard in a car trunk 35 years or so ago, with some WWII-era craftsman sockets and a speeder, all non-chromed because of the war. Honestly, the ratchet sucks, but it LOOKS neat. Hope I figure out where it is...
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I have a3/8 like that with some sockets.
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Well.....I have 39 motorcycles, at least 6 of them registered, insured, inspecter, and currently ridden----the others are either slated to be finished up, or are for parts.
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just saw this ,i know its old post but I gotta know  WHAT THE HELL IS SHE DOING IN YOUR TOOL BOX THAT IS SACRED GROUND
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Big Bird Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28-September-2016 at 1:05PM
It's the old box in the laundry room...
and every time I poke around, the ratchet count ratchets up! LOL
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oh my god, totally ROFLMAO on this one!!! :P
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My tool boxes are disguised as fishing tackle boxes
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wife said something like that about my guns--' how many do think you need' -- I said  better to have it  and not need it than to need it and not have it
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You got that right!!!!
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Originally posted by hogfiddles hogfiddles wrote:

Well.....I have 39 motorcycles, at least 6 of them registered, insured, inspecter, and currently ridden----the others are either slated to be finished up, or are for parts.

I did a re-count a couple weeks ago......now 65. Maybe it's time to narrow it down a bit again.

Edited by hogfiddles - 08-November-2018 at 12:24PM
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Originally posted by kevinj kevinj wrote:

wife said something like that about my guns--' how many do think you need' -- I said  better to have it  and not need it than to need it and not have it


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Picked this vise up for doing a davor for a friend.

I have to see who made it but the weight is incredible.

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 looks like a decent vise... how wide does the jaw open?
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Smooth.The handle is probably 14" long and with some grease it will be butter. I ha e no place sturdy enough to mount it and may make a steel stand alone moint. Gonna clean it up and make it blue I guess. There was a yellow vise on the butcher block bench but I didn't have the tools to remove it. MRV5 maybe? It had a powder coated finish. Hoping to get the bench too.

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