barrysuperhawk
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Okay so I'll admit it I am an actual fiend for drill bits and Taps when I can buy them cheap. I make no excuses it's just how I am. In my travels I have collected hundreds of drill bits, you may not know it but most pawn shops will sell you handfuls of drill bits for a couple of dollars or sell them by the pound.
What I don't have is a reasonable and a reliable way of carrying these things around. Everybody loves to have the perfectly filled fitted case, every single bit or tap in its place, but I know the truth that that is a myth, a lie, it doesn't actually exist in the real world more than 5 minutes after the purchase. So bits and Taps get strung out all over God and creation with little regard to their original packaging if I ever had it at all.
I have them in baggies in fishing organizers in a child's pencil boxes, standing up in a Shell organizer from an ammo box, fake and real Pelican cases, model and hobby cases even stupid cardboard boxes. Regular bit organizers are fine as far as they go but when you have a dozen varying half inch drill bits for example cases generally only have a place for one. And in reality I don't need fractional drill bits down to the 128th, what I tend to use are the same four or five sizes, occasionally losing, dulling or breaking one and reaching for a replacement, with the occasional oddball what the hell kind of thread is that or how do I fix that hole kind of size.
So what I think I'd like to find is something between these chincy little plastic organizers and pencil boxes that I have, that instantly break the first time you hit them with a mean look and my heavy duty pelican cases that are completely sturdy but **** for organization.
So what would you use or what do you use for organizing all of your bits and Taps and dies? Preferably something I can purchase not some antique piece of unobtainium or something that you made because you are super talented but aren't willing to make a second one for me.
What I don't have is a reasonable and a reliable way of carrying these things around. Everybody loves to have the perfectly filled fitted case, every single bit or tap in its place, but I know the truth that that is a myth, a lie, it doesn't actually exist in the real world more than 5 minutes after the purchase. So bits and Taps get strung out all over God and creation with little regard to their original packaging if I ever had it at all.
I have them in baggies in fishing organizers in a child's pencil boxes, standing up in a Shell organizer from an ammo box, fake and real Pelican cases, model and hobby cases even stupid cardboard boxes. Regular bit organizers are fine as far as they go but when you have a dozen varying half inch drill bits for example cases generally only have a place for one. And in reality I don't need fractional drill bits down to the 128th, what I tend to use are the same four or five sizes, occasionally losing, dulling or breaking one and reaching for a replacement, with the occasional oddball what the hell kind of thread is that or how do I fix that hole kind of size.
So what I think I'd like to find is something between these chincy little plastic organizers and pencil boxes that I have, that instantly break the first time you hit them with a mean look and my heavy duty pelican cases that are completely sturdy but **** for organization.
So what would you use or what do you use for organizing all of your bits and Taps and dies? Preferably something I can purchase not some antique piece of unobtainium or something that you made because you are super talented but aren't willing to make a second one for me.
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