Garage Cheet Sheet

[rylon]

I am in the process of setting up a HF roller cart with some nice accessories for my step father. I'm going to try and laser etch some acrylic with the socket sizes to create a custom socket organization in the top and space for common wrences and other odds and ends in the drawers. I'll try my best to get pics once it is all done.

But I would like to include a laminated sheet of common garage conversions such as a 1/2" wrench is the same as XXmm, lbs ft to Nm conversions and so on that could be attached to the lid of the box for easy reference.

I would of course offer my compliation here is the most convienient forms, so lets have those tid bits of information!!!

Thanks Rylon

 

[commonut]

1/4 inch is close to 6mm
5/16 is close to 8mm
3/8 inch is close to 10mm
7/16 is close to 11mm
1/2 inch is close to 13mm
9/16 is close to 14mm
5/8 inch is close to 16mm
11/16 is close to 17mm
3/4 inch is close to 19mm
7/8 is close to 22mm
15/16 inch is close to 24mm
1 inch is close to 25mm

You can use the substitutes to quickly move a lossened nut or bolt, but I wouldn't put any real torque on, a great way to round off the head, give yourself some real work, especially as old man Murphy is never far away when that fastener your working on is in an awkward spot.
A screwdriver isn't a chisel, and an extension bar isn't a drift. There is NO substitute for the corwect tool for the job nine times out of ten.

Noel

 

[little d]

if ya have a indy tool shop around ya, id bet they would have what ya want, thats where i have gotten mine from the past.

 

[TA^Guy]

Well since I'm a car guy here are a few of my common favorites.

1 inch =
25.4 mm
2.54 cm

1 foot =
304.8 mm
30.48 cm

1 liter =
61.02 cubic inches

 

[Ray-CA]

I use this site quite often: http://www.onlineconversion.com Just plug in your numbers and hit convert.

Ray

PS: Nice thing you are doing!!!

 

[Kevin54]

Check with Grainger and some of those places. A lot of them have large decimal & tap charts that you can get. Or you can get online, download a chart, go to your local printing shop, then have it blown up and laminated. Maybe make one fancy with your favorite ride pictured above before lamination

 

[tyrell2004]

I use this laminated card at work maybe you can get it from them and modify, cut paste etc.

 

[rylon]

Thanks for all the replies, I'll take a look at all the suggestions and post what I have in a little while.

Rylon

 

[rylon]

So I complied some information and laminated it here at work, just some images I grabbed off of google. The plan is to use some velcro and attach them to the lid of the box so they can be easily referenced when the lid is open and removed if necessary.

I'll post them up so you guys can have them handy if you would like

The overall concept for the cart is to have a space for all 299 craftsman sockets in spring style rails in the top of the box labeled with laser cut acrylic bits all riveted to the box. The drawers can then be used for screwdrivers, ratchets and other commonly used tools. I also want to make a place to hang air tools on each side, the box steel style idea some one posted here somewhere? That way he can work in either garage or in the driveway easly and keep better track of the commonly used tools. Let me know what you guys think, and if there is anything cheap and easy I can add, getting up to the wire time line wise here.

I'll take some finished product pics once all is said and done, and Ray-CA I appreciate the compliment but if I'm honest I plan on doing the same thing for myself so I am kind of using the gift as a means of motivation and a "practice run" if you will.

Thanks Rylon

 

[rylon]

Hopefully these aren't too big and I didn't break any rules, sorry if I did and feel free to modify/remove anything I did wrong. Thanks Rylon

Torque-Conversion-English-Metric

 

[RobSmith]

You forgot to include the special "Brass Razoo" or the round "To-it." (not the square one)
If you haven't got a "Brass Razoo" you can't buy a ****** thing.
If you can't get a round "To-it " then you'll never get the job done.

Why did you ask when you had all the info anyway ?

 

[nate379]

Your wire size chart must be for automotive, cause those #s aren't correct for 120v or 240v

No way you can only run a 14 guage wire 13 feet on a 15 amp circuit!

 

[rburke65]

Why not? 14 gauge wire is rated for 15 amps., and you can run it a lot longer than 13 feet!

 

[hetkind]

what specific tasks are you building this cart for? if it is for general use, he doesn't need all of the 299 sockets...

I like to build specific use kits (CTK) for specialized jobs and keep the most common hand tools mounted on the wall behind the bench, and still keep my master box complete.

Howard

 

[nate379]

Huh?

Yeah 14 gauge is rated for 15 amps, which is why I said that, but it's not limited to 13 feet.... Nor is it rated for 70amps at 3 feet!

CTK is just an Air Force term for a toolbox BTW.

 

[rylon]

I asked the question after googling and finding nothing specific to a garage, so I figured I would ask and see what people thought would be most useful.

The wire gauge chart is more for the dimensions than length of run, but I appreciate the reply, I did my best to get the information from credable resources but can only do so much.

As far as having a space for all 299, that is more of a goal. I don't think I'll be able to make room for all of them so I will more than likely just see what the largest sizes he has in each drive and work from there trying to fit as much as possible. I have a vector drawing of the approximate size of each socket laid out and I have the deminsions of the box so I just have to figure out the layout and then cut the lables.

Thanks Rylon

 

[nate379]

Generally for most home applications, anything under 100ft you don't really need to worry about upsizing a wire.

 

[Torque1st]

I found one:

 

[little d]

he he he, thanks guys for the chuckle

 

[tyrell2004]

I found one too!

 

[Teken]

I found one:

OMG !!!