silagehauler
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I finally realized how many sockets I don't have.
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I hate socket organizers.
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toddacimer
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Good luck collecting them all
jkherd
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It gives you a goal to set, you need fill in those empty spots.Chadwilliam1
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Hahahaha let the games begin.
ihateminimumwage
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I know the feeling 
So Far I have both my 1/4" holders full, and my 3/8" metric. Half way for my 3/8" SAE and both my 1/2". It's a process, especially filling in those misc sizes... They do look damn nice when they're filled in though.
So Far I have both my 1/4" holders full, and my 3/8" metric. Half way for my 3/8" SAE and both my 1/2". It's a process, especially filling in those misc sizes... They do look damn nice when they're filled in though.
edcantu9
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Nice project to work. I almost filled mine!
MikeF2316
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I finally realized how many sockets I don't have.
I have very little use for SAE and therefore very few SAE tools. I only have socket organizers for metric, I don't dare get SAE ones!
oldldh
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OCD strikes again...
sberry
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Fedwrench
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Get a refund on the hansens, buy rails. If you must have a tray set up, buy the westling machine racks or get this ernst model.
http://www.ernstmfg.com/tool-organi...ail-universal-twist-lock-socket-tray-393.html
The money you save by not hunting down socket sizes you'll never use, combined with the piece of mind that comes from not staring at an empty peg is priceless.
http://www.ernstmfg.com/tool-organi...ail-universal-twist-lock-socket-tray-393.html
The money you save by not hunting down socket sizes you'll never use, combined with the piece of mind that comes from not staring at an empty peg is priceless.
senor fozz
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I like the way you work sir. I just don't get why people get so bent out of shape about having their organizers filled completely. I'm glad when I don't get 9 and 20 mm in sets. To each his own.
Letsgobowhunting
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I bought the HF to save $50. I really like them but I also realize they have so many open spots. One thing I really was suprised by is how huch more space these trays take up. It takes twice the space that my raid used to.
sberry.... I swear I mean this with the greatest of affection, but I would bet
you make your own lampshades out of used pineapples and that your
mobile phone has a giant valve sticking out the top of it.
Gregg33
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Get a refund on the hansens, buy rails. If you must have a tray set up, buy the westling machine racks or get this ernst model.
http://www.ernstmfg.com/tool-organi...ail-universal-twist-lock-socket-tray-393.html
The money you save by not hunting down socket sizes you'll never use, combined with the piece of mind that comes from not staring at an empty peg is priceless.
Rails are much better imo, less wasted space, more portable and you can set them up the way you want. For plastic the Ernst, Craftsman, now defunct Kobalt or even Taiwan made ones work good. The steel (sheet metal stamped) SO ones offer a good bang for the buck. The plastic ones will stand on their own, the SO metal ones will with all but the biggest sockets, other brands of metal rails (like some I bought from Gray) have a more rounded bottom and will lean or will fall over, if you don't fasten them to your box or lay them down. Another benefit of the rails is you can swap the clips if they break or even mix drive sizes. That isn't possible with racks, not to mention some sockets (especially older ones) won't go over the pegs on the racks.
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gsmornot
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No kidding. I own sockets now I'm sure I will never use and I have them in deep and short.
jakemac
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Only deep and short ? What about 6pt, 8pt, 12pt ? Do you have any Whitworths ? How about the old USS standard ? How about mid length ?
It never ends. You will never have enough. Welcome to the nightmare.
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silagehauler
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No kidding. I was just about done with filling my 1/2" drive SAE set when I realized that Kobalt doesn't make 3/8" deep impact, so now I obsess over the ONE Armstrong socket on there.
Plus, what do you with semi-deeps?
Exceller8
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I gave up! Only have what I need now. Therapy has really helped!!
I yanked my Hansen's out, got tired of having open pegs, sockets I'd never use and no room for doubles of sockets I'd use often. I've been picking up those red magnetic trays at garage sales for a while now and I switched over to them. So far it's working out pretty good. I have an older toolbox so the top drawer is shorter in height and the trays are a perfect fit after cutting off the handles.
jjjrmx5
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LOLOLOLZZZZZZZZZ!!!
Rico doth speaketh the truth.
And it is that truth that I too live by.
Lest not let those that forge and cast the tools of the trades set the standards by which ye shall organize, but be a man of virture and good standing and set your own.
And above all, doth always remember...that thine 15mm 1/4" drive socket is , and will always be, a crafty and elusive ***** to wrangle.
Hahahahahahaha!!!!!!!
GIJoe4500
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LOLOLOLZZZZZZZZZ!!!
Rico doth speaketh the truth.
And it is that truth that I too live by.
Lest not let those that forge and cast the tools of the trades set the standards by which ye shall organize, but be a man of virture and good standing and set your own.
And above all, doth always remember...that thine 15mm 1/4" drive socket is , and will always be, a crafty and elusive ***** to wrangle.
Hahahahahahaha!!!!!!!
I have ONE 15mm 1/4" drive socket (shallow 12pt). Need 3 more to fill my rails (shallow 6pt, deep 6pt, and deep 12pt)
jjjrmx5
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Napa/Carlyse sells the 1/4" 15mm in short and long 6 point. Not a hateful price. I have them.
Snap-On does the 6 points in long and short in 15mm.
Finding 1/4" drive 12 points is near impossible anymore.
I have sets of C'man in 12 point 1/4" from back in the 80's and 70's but everyone went 6 point around 2000 IIRC.
Not common at all any more.
sberry
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I am working in a different environment than many which changes a few things. I provide all the tooling no matter what we are doing and no locked boxes as well as significant walking. As simple as it seems it took me a long time to get squared around and a lot of my stuff is duplication. I envision some kind of stacked rail, the turnstyle is it feeds 2 bays.
My other cart is with its back to the wall so the turn wouldn't be an advantage but was thinking of stepped rails by size. I kind 0f gave up and might tinker a bit but simply moved a lot of stuff I really didn't use to a drawer.
My other cart is with its back to the wall so the turn wouldn't be an advantage but was thinking of stepped rails by size. I kind 0f gave up and might tinker a bit but simply moved a lot of stuff I really didn't use to a drawer.
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sberry
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I probably don't have a new pic but have an older one and dam near stripped a 5 gallon bucket of stuff off the top I really didn't use. When I get rich would splurge for the HF with 2 sets of small drawers where I could use the top like this in the same fashion, I don't need it to be a work bench and I don't really move it.
As I recall may have even removed some more to the bottom, I rarely use chrome sockets. walked for a couple on the last job but all this beats a lot of tedious organization.
I like the stuff I use handy and if I got to look for something tossed in a drawer on occasion so be it, I use a metric wrench from this location once a week,,, ha and 95% of it is 1/2 impact or common China end wrench although I got a few better ones tossed in the drawer should a guy really need a 6 pt etc.
The old cart in the pic has a few metric end wrenches, most of the drive stuff, extensions, ratchets and some real general tools. Its home is near the hoist bay, most metrics we do are found on cars.
As I recall may have even removed some more to the bottom, I rarely use chrome sockets. walked for a couple on the last job but all this beats a lot of tedious organization.
I like the stuff I use handy and if I got to look for something tossed in a drawer on occasion so be it, I use a metric wrench from this location once a week,,, ha and 95% of it is 1/2 impact or common China end wrench although I got a few better ones tossed in the drawer should a guy really need a 6 pt etc.
The old cart in the pic has a few metric end wrenches, most of the drive stuff, extensions, ratchets and some real general tools. Its home is near the hoist bay, most metrics we do are found on cars.
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sberry
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sberry
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I'm at work, so sorry about this, here's my pic in my garage thread about one solution to Hansen OCD:
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=3304029&postcount=127
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=3304029&postcount=127
sberry
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I don't need every one they ever invented. I wouldn't mind a couple of mid length, mainly a 9/16 but its not a deal breaker. Even though I have then all about the only 7 I have ever used is an open end on a golf cart.
dimwittedmoose51
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Actually it's CDO disorder....cuz now the letters are in alphabetical order.....LIKE THEY ARE SPOZED TO BE!!!!!
DM&FS
GIJoe4500
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I have almost a full set of shallow Proto fractional 12pt in 1/4" drive. not sure what year they are from, got them at a pawn shop for $0.25/ea. In deep, i have a single snap-on 12pt that I got at the same time, it was also a quarter.
senor fozz
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I would highly recommend a set of semi deeps. They have their place when working in cramped engines. I bought mine when i got sick of fighting scion xb's alternators at work.
Only deep and short ? What about 6pt, 8pt, 12pt ? Do you have any Whitworths ? How about the old USS standard ? How about mid length ?
It never ends. You will never have enough. Welcome to the nightmare.
What about BSF, flex and then you can start on impacts