brettboat
Active member
So I know alot of guys on here are professional auto/diesel techs so this is more of a question for you guys.
So I've been a professional aircraft mechanic for the past 6 years. I've always been sort of a hotrodder I guess, I have my race truck that I'm always playing with but I've never worked on cars or trucks professional. I've been working on the road moving all over the place for the past 3 or so years contracting and I recently took a job closer to home, really good money, awesome benefits, great money. But the problem I ran into is my shift is 7 days on, 7 days off. I'm too much of a workaholic for 7 days off and my wallet ain't fat enough to work on a diesel drag truck 7 days straight.
My job made me sign non competition clause so I can't do any other aviation work and being that my job pays so much I really needed a cash job to help save me, because to file another W4 would kill me.
So I took a job at an automotive shop part time to help fill up some of my time. And I'm just curious what I should do about my tool situation. As an aircraft mechanic 99% of what we do is SAE, I own some metric tools but none except for a few here and there are are decent quality (like I have a set of Mac metric combo wrenches and a set of mac shallow impact sockets). All my SAE stuff is all Snapon, mac and Matco.
So I'm already thinking just slowly starting to accumulate quality metric stuff (ebay) but my main question is currently I keep alot of stuff like all my ratchets and extensions in my travel toolbox that I use at work. Do you guys think I should keep working out of those in combination with my toolboxes at my auto job or should I slowly start to make everything separate?
Any other advise would be well appreciated.
So I've been a professional aircraft mechanic for the past 6 years. I've always been sort of a hotrodder I guess, I have my race truck that I'm always playing with but I've never worked on cars or trucks professional. I've been working on the road moving all over the place for the past 3 or so years contracting and I recently took a job closer to home, really good money, awesome benefits, great money. But the problem I ran into is my shift is 7 days on, 7 days off. I'm too much of a workaholic for 7 days off and my wallet ain't fat enough to work on a diesel drag truck 7 days straight.
My job made me sign non competition clause so I can't do any other aviation work and being that my job pays so much I really needed a cash job to help save me, because to file another W4 would kill me.
So I took a job at an automotive shop part time to help fill up some of my time. And I'm just curious what I should do about my tool situation. As an aircraft mechanic 99% of what we do is SAE, I own some metric tools but none except for a few here and there are are decent quality (like I have a set of Mac metric combo wrenches and a set of mac shallow impact sockets). All my SAE stuff is all Snapon, mac and Matco.
So I'm already thinking just slowly starting to accumulate quality metric stuff (ebay) but my main question is currently I keep alot of stuff like all my ratchets and extensions in my travel toolbox that I use at work. Do you guys think I should keep working out of those in combination with my toolboxes at my auto job or should I slowly start to make everything separate?
Any other advise would be well appreciated.
