File sleeve or other idea road box?
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flyingblind
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Cardboard sheath, disposable and replaceable,
landrover bodger
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a piece of bike inner tube stretched over it
RoninB4
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Cardboard tube or capped PVC are good ideas. Whatever you choose a wash of the interior with any type of petroleum based oil will help prevent the file from rusting, which will surely happen in a road box. Rust on a file will blunt the cutting teeth, making it useless when you need it. The interior doesn't need to be dripping with oil, a thin film will do. I'd do the threaded cap PVC if it were me, more durable and better to seal out moisture.
BDT/NWMN
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After a brief cleaning and a shot of WD40, they are wrapped in a piece of cloth.
Zeus36
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How long is the file? If not more than a foot, this would work:
KnurledNut
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The plastic sleeves that lift supports come in (gas shocks for hoods etc) work well.
Also might check out kitchen knife sheaths, guards.
Pictured below is a Dexter 20400:
Also might check out kitchen knife sheaths, guards.
Pictured below is a Dexter 20400:
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RTM
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Make one out of an old cereal box and a roll of packing tape? Can make two pieces so you have a sliding cap.
If you use froot loops, say it’s your kids cereal.
If you use froot loops, say it’s your kids cereal.
I have always left mine loose and uncovered in my hand box for the last 30 years.
Are you more worried about it rusting or hurting the tools next to it?
Every once in a while, I de-pin it and put a little oil from the pipe threader on it.
If you are worried about the file rubbing against the other tools… 30 years of carrying a hand box and the damage the file has done to other tools is negligible.
Technically, a hand file is not on our tool list. They are technically a contractor supplied tool. I always carry my own. It is easier than going to search for a contractor supplied one.
I used BenchTop that I got NOS about 30 years ago.
bwringer
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Leather scabbard.
alfadan
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How about heating pvc to mould it to the file, but not too tight.
Al Borland
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PVC capped at one end, threaded cap on the other. Make it snug.
I like all the ideas. I am leaning towards the leather or plastic sheath idea. I would like to keep it from rusting and from having other tools rub against them. Ideally it would retain a little bit of oil to keep rust at bay but not enough to attract dirt. Also thinking about lay flat hose any ideas to seal one end? Glue? Heat seal?
Firebrick43
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we always used the aforementioned PVC pipe. Glued one cap on and the other just pushed it on tight. Never had it come off in the box
I keep a file and some other long items in a 14" Klein zipper bag like the gray one here:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B11LN6SM/?tag=atomicindus08-20
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B11LN6SM/?tag=atomicindus08-20
WWheeler
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I keep flat files, rasps, chain saw files and needle files in a small plastic parts storage box, the kind with dividers you can rearrange, that sits on a shelf out in my garage/shop. I also keep a few such files in the slots of the top removable tray of a small plastic tool box in the work truck.
richfinn
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Length of automotive heater/coolant hose in a suitable diameter
yhprum
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KnurledNut
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Copper.
If you flatten the end, it also gives you a file cleaning tool.
If you flatten the end, it also gives you a file cleaning tool.
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yhprum
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rust in the eye
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More than one? Wrench roll up
kaymccampbell
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A block of foam, with all the files stabbed into it, like a knife block.