full redundancy, can’t nip out to put up a missing socket.
not one piece missing, how do they do it?
I think instead of continuing to dishonour the English we should now call Imperial measurements ‘American’. So they have Metric and American on board…
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Also fun: their metric sockets are 6 point while their SAE are mostly 12 point.
Not hard to understand, just wrong. Same materials and manufacturing techniques, same sizes (within very minor variation up or down), same strength (within that same variation up or down). I know some of us hate admitting that our personal preferences are unsupported, but in this case they really are.
Of course if you buy high-quality English and junk Metric, there’s a difference. But that just means you biased the test.
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For more tool porn, websearch images of “fitted tool chest”. You’ll find some amazingly elegant traditional storage solutions.
Admittedly most of them favor a balance of compactness and rapid access and just-plain-pretty, so they don’t give you the shadowboxing inventory-check feature that the ISS’s chest does.
I suspect they come with a pair of magnetic boots as well…(one can dream).
that search yields all of two different chests.
I’m sure they’ve got that system optimized in more ways than I could understand but I’m surprised at how much space is wasted.
Hm. Could swear I saw more. If anyone can come up with a better search…
This one’s also Real Pretty, though, if you want a cabinet for the workshop rather than one that is (at least theoretically) portable to a work site: 金沙集团娱乐场网址-【官网】
Now that’s real nice and kentucky.
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I’d forgotten that bit of slang. Thanks!
Nope nope. We take enough crap already for stuff we did do. You’re not fobbing your mistakes off on us, too.
English…Metric? I wish the world would just pick one and stick with it.
It all seemed very unlikely as I spelled it out. I know standards are sophisticated and hammered out by skilled and devoted engineers with no other goal than to do the best.
(But I still see scientistic bias in favor of metric in this discussion. My preference is for wood screws. Which reflects more about my approach to ‘engineering’ than I care to admit.)
I saw more with that phrase… BING has more wood, fewer mechanics toolboxes come up FWIW. But the following takes it, in my view; a miniature (1/12) scale fitted toolchest. http://www.finewoodworking.com/woodworking-plans/article/pro-portfolio-micro-maestro.aspx
When I was in art school we had a term for people who focused so much attention on their tools. It wasn’t “artist.”
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It isn’t obsessive focus on the tools – it’s using the tools as an excuse to demonstrate the design skills (functional, construction, and decorative) that characterizes a master. It’s also advertising to anyone who might hire the maker of this box to do other work. It’s also, if you’re concerned about efficiency of production – which a professional should be – an investment in your future.
And I submit that artists too – and engineers, and anyone else who is planning to actually make a living from their work – would benefit from being asked to demonstrate mastery of all three aspects of their craft simultaneously within a single project. You’ll learn more than you expect from the attempt.
Oh surely it is a fine line between the expert and the weekend warrior. I’ve listened to jerk offs brag about their tools. I am sure the guy who built that tool cabinet is not one of those guys. I see a conversation that is all bright colors and I am tempted to add a little shading. That’s all I am doing.
I’ve been asked on the spot why many of my tools are rusty and unmaintained. People tell me the things I make are fascinating and beautiful. I thought that was the point, really. Not a skills test beforehand to make sure my hair is neat and my shirt tucked in. If I went to that trouble I would probably go back to bed first.
The goal is different from a well crafted project (not always, I grant you.) Careful observation of people’s reactions reveal that high craft can be a distraction in a work of art. More observation of work and artists reveals that an indirect approach with an arms length skepticism about what passes for good and great is critical to achieving a sort of success that can’t be predicted or planned. Just as jokes don’t need to be about beautiful people to be funny, formalism doesn’t have to be about beauty to bring a belly laugh or the shock of the new. Sometimes baggy pants and a big nose are just funnier and sometimes the crudely nailed 2x4 has a poignancy that fine mahogany would obscure.
Thanks for responding.
Apologies, then; I misread it as dismissive verging on defensive.
Obviously, we always face a decision about whether we’d rather spend energy (work, time, or money) in maintaining the tools, replacing the tools, or working harder than necessary when using damaged/dull tools. If you’ve got a set of tradeoffs that works for you, even if it’s one that wouldn’t work for me, more power to you.
And I suppose one advantage of having poorly maintained tools is that nobody will want to borrow them.
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