How OCD are you about color?

[Riverrojo]

My tools match my toolbox......dirty. When there's no downtime from 7a-5p, the last thing on my mind is cleaning my box or tools.

 

[ToddyB]

The hostility makes me laugh. We all have our opinions, thanks for sharing.

I know I've been in situations where I've had to make due with what I had. I've reached a point in my life where I can enjoy a nice set of tools, so I don't see anything wrong with being professional looking.

This is not a debate of manliness. Maybe some of us see our professions as more than just jobs. To those who are using power and hand tools 40-60 hours a week, what keeps you going? (Besides family, bills, money, etc.) Being able to expand my tool collection and keep my **** squared away helps my motivation level. I don't simply slog through my days and punch the clock.

Expanding my collection definitely helps my motivation level.! A new tool always makes for a fun day.

 

[Moose-LandTran]

Nobody drop the soap. We have a bunch of interior-decorating metrosexuals in here, worrying about tool colours.

It's technosexual!

 

[theoldwizard1]

Not so much color, but I am about matching sockets, wrenches screwdrivers, etc.

Years ago I help out a guy who drove at the local 1/4 bull ring race track. This guys built a chassis from a pile of DOM tubes. He had a GIANT sized TIG welder and could weld anything. But his sockets were all mismatched, half the wrenches were busted and I think he only owned 3 screwdrivers when I met him (one straight, one phillips and one big one for prying).

He was really touched when I bought him a set of Craftsman screwdrivers for Christmas that first year.

 

[kc-steve]

Picking the color of your tools is sort of like picking the amenities of your executive jet, . . . it ain't gonna happen for most of us without a great deal of warranted frustration.

Maybe if we buy Harbor Freight orange, then we could swing it. So I'm not a stickler for that sort of thing.

Unless you are buying Snap-on tools I don't even think you can buy every tool you might need from the same company. I work on bicycles, electronics, computers, to cars.

Overall though, I do try and keep tools within sets the same. Just my thoughts.

Steve

 

[cglasgow]

Function over form -- if it gets the job done, color is a distant second in my selection criteria.

 

[Packard V8]

I just sold some pink, green, red and blue hard handles because those limp-wristed girly-tool colors wouldn't look right among my black hard handles and industrial black wrenches.

jack vines

 

[BlindViper]

I bought 3 ratchets off the truck and ordered green handles. So they would match all my soft grips and pry bars. I am eye balling that 3 piece set now, and plan on swapping the handles just the same.

 

[Gary S]

The hostility makes me laugh. We all have our opinions, thanks for sharing.

This is not a debate of manliness. :

Maybe it is. Now we know who is Gay and who isn't.

 

[AlchemyMetalworks]

It's technosexual!

I thought that's what those Euro-ravers were called

 

[Moose-LandTran]

Maybe it is. Now we know who is Gay and who isn't.

Now this is what i don't get, what difference does it make if someone's gay or not? Are you homophobic? Are you worried they'll try it on with you? So what if someone's gay, doesn't make them any less of a person for being it. I couldn't care any less what ****** orientation someone has, i have gay friends and their ********* doesn't bother me in the least.

So what's the deal?

I thought that's what those Euro-ravers were called

I'm European..

 

[dsaabm]

I run an equal opportunity tool box. All colors welcome.

 

[pdizzleinmt]

i would prefer all my tools to match but at this point they dont haha

 

[AlchemyMetalworks]

I'm European..

Techno...raver...guess you didn't get my play on words.

For some reason Moose, I can't see you being one of those glow-stick kids rollin' on X...

 

[Coach James]

I run an equal opportunity tool box. All colors welcome.

What brand are the green and blue handled ratchets? Is the blue handled one from NAPA?

Coach

 

[sberry]

I dont care if anything matches, no one looks at my stuff for that or cares.

 

[4x4gearhead]

I think its kind of **** retentive to try consciously to make your tool handles match though tool boxes I make an effort to match when I buy new, but when I buy used I dont care.

 

[Daddy_Rabbit]

i have gay friends ... i'm European..

cool story.