Most Impressive SO Box I've Seen

[2ndGearRubber]

I am pretty sure that you were looking for a motorcycle within the last couple of years. A small 2 stroke?
What happened?
My lack of bad habits (drugs, smoking & alcohol) and a desire to keep busy with extra work, has allowed me to indulge my need for motorcycles. I just traded a timing belt job for a Yamaha Vino 125 with a legitimate 211 miles on the odometer. I will not be riding it, my BMI is over 18.

Reality kicked in. Most of those bikes were 2-4k, and ~50 years old. The real cream puffs I was not interested in as I would not want to risk myself damaging something in that condition, and they were closer to $7500. All of the bikes seemed to have some sort of issues and I was not convinced I was interested in finding a machine shop to deal with the "carb issue" which was actually a trashed bore. Many of the bikes, all really, had some critical parts that were NLA. So if you needed an oil metering pump you needed to find used on Ebay and hope it was good. Much like my previous experiences with quads and motorcycles, lots of working on it and parts hunting. Many were off the road long enough I would not have ridden them home, I would expect to trailer and swap the tires and inspect the condition. You find a LOT of loose bolts on cheap motorcycles.


I should have stipulated "financing motorcycles". Spending $5000, $10000, $20000 - on a loan - much different than me buying a ****** $2500 bike cash. If somebody has 10k liquid and wants to talk about buying a cheap bike, be my guest. Living paycheck to paycheck, can't fill the car up and need to make the tank stretch 2 more days because you're broke - don't finance things. That's true for a box, a boat, a vacation, or anything else.


Unpopular opinion - If the guy can swing getting that box, either in pieces or all at once, he's fine. Snap on might let somebody hang themselves on a box, but the raw expense of that whole setup means income, credit, employment history - all need to be right. I'm sure the guy makes good money, and is good at what he does. You don't get the income to buy something like that doing oil change/rotates.

 

[Jeff]

New here?

really?

 

[Banjorear]

Just how much money can a mechanic working for a dealership earn?

I talked to young tech (26 year old) who worked for Mercedes Benz a few years ago. He worked four, 10 hour days and only handled tech/computer issues since the older techs didn't want to deal with it. He did do home calls if needed and would get a special rate for that. He was being coy, but said he makes north of $125K.

He majored in computer science in college.

He said he loved it. No dirty jobs or tear downs. Most of it was problem solving with their periptery scanners and replacing the parts as determined.

Your mileage may vary.

 

[American Locomotive]

how about your veterinarian and his room full of life size taxidermy in the waiting room? how about your kids teacher having their gun collection on the wall of the classroom?

Do you really, truly believe, with all your heart, that those two examples are in any way comparable to someone having some Star Wars memorabilia on a shelf in their work area of an auto repair shop?

if you want to be a professional at your job, at least attempting to give the appearance of one is a good start.

I have a very white-collar "professional" job. There's currently a huge 9 foot tall box fort in the corner of my office I built earlier this week from a ton of empty boxes we got in a shipment. I even put crenelations and a banner baring a coat of arms on it. Every coworker who has seen it, has thought it was hilarious.

really?

Every sub-forum is the off-topic sub forum at Garage Journal

 

[dr_clyde]

As to the original topic, it’s a beautiful box, I would be proud to own it. I don’t doubt that the “retail” on it is more than most common cars.

Most people don’t pay list for toolboxes, it’s a fake number they use to entice purchases via “discounts”.

I had a co-worker today tell me he looked up the retail on my KRL 1023 and was flabbergasted people pay that much for a box. I told him I certainly don’t, I bought it used and at a fair price. But if purchased new the dealer will give you significant discounts, rebates, trade in credits and other incentives to get people to buy a box. But I bet it brings it down by almost half list price, all said and done.

The owner of that black and orange box is clearly invested in his trade and has passions outside work, namely sports, Star Wars and his family. I see nothing wrong with expressing it in a professional and clean manner.

I’d be willing to bet he bought the box, had nothing to put in that top compartment and thought it would be fun to put some toys in there to look at, possibly knowing his box was visible from the waiting area. You looked…

 

[PugetDude]

GENTLEMEN!

Enough of this *** for tat ********.

I wanted a conversation involving a really cool SO chest I saw at my Dodge dealer.

But nooooooooooooooooo...

You fookers had to ruin it.

(soapbox off)

You DID get a conversation involving a
("really cool" is subjective... ) SO chest , just not what you expected.
Hive-mind affirmation is never guaranteed here. Sorry.

 

[zendriver]

As long as they fixed my car right the first time, I don't care if the tech has the world's largest troll doll display up there.

 

[Madjik Man]

GENTLEMEN!

Enough of this *** for tat ********.

I wanted a conversation involving a really cool SO chest I saw at my Dodge dealer.

But nooooooooooooooooo...

You fookers had to ruin it.

(soapbox off)

You said, "***"

 

[d.mcfarland]

I don't think I would spend the money for the overhead to display some Star Wars ****.

We can deduce that the toolbox owner spends a lot of time at work, likely to make up for bad financial choices. I'm not saying that they don't make good money, but poor choices are poor choices no matter the income level.

 

[PugetDude]

We can deduce that the toolbox owner spends a lot of time at work, likely to make up for bad financial choices. I'm not saying that they don't make good money, but poor choices are poor choices no matter the income level.

That's quite a leap. Are there assumptions of anatomical insufficiencies or difficulties with potty training as a child to be made as well?

 

[danski0224]

I don't think I would spend the money for the overhead to display some Star Wars ****.

I thought the 3rd one in from the left was from Spaceballs...

 

[garfunkle24]

, i want my yard, my buildings, my fields and my equipment to look good for others to see

Why?

A person could easily be judgemental about that. A person could see that to be very conformist and shallow and pandering to what others think.

In much the same way a person could judge another to be unprofessional merely because they have some Star Wars **** in their bay.


Some people like their house to essentially look like a show home for the benefit of others. Some don't give a ****, it's their space for them to live in and enjoy. Neither is right or wrong. Just different.

 

[PugetDude]

This thread sure has legs...

 

[mrb1]

Who Dey! Bengals all the way in 2025. Maybe $55mil a year ain't enough and Joe Burrow needed a job down there for the summer?

 

[3baygarage]

As long as they fixed my car right the first time, I don't care if the tech has the world's largest troll doll display up there.

What's this extra line here on the invoice?

Oh, sorry sir. Your POS clunker rattled three Hummels off of Steve's hutch.

 

[Lucid Moments]

Who was whining? I just mentioned I wouldn't spend upwards of 6K to display them, I bought my box because I needed a place to store my tools.

I got what you meant from the beginning and agree with you. If someone is into Star Wars stuff and wants to display it then cool, no problem. Spending the kind of money I would have expected someone to pay for the hutch or whatever they call that piece in order to display stuff? Seems kind of foolish to me. I guess it's their money to spend so I don't really care, but it would stick in my head.

 

[whateg01]

the dude buys that sort of box to diplay his starwars helmets robots and other misc star wars trinkets at work?

its kind of f'd up. not sure i would want him working on my stuff when that is the only thing on his mind...

work on your customers car and leave your hobby at home.

What's the difference between that and somebody having pictures of their family and the first baseball they caught at a MLB game on their desk?

 

[PugetDude]

What's the difference between that and somebody having pictures of their family and the first baseball they caught at a MLB game on their desk?

One is real and the other is fantasy?

 

[whateg01]

But you go into a doctors office sometimes to talk to him. You usually aren’t allowed on the shop floor for liability reasons so it’s more like a closed to public office tbh

And yet here's a picture of the "closed to the public office" being discussed.

 

[whateg01]

One is real and the other is fantasy?

I bet those helmets are real, not imaginary. The owner can touch them!

 

[PugetDude]

I bet those helmets are real, not imaginary. The owner can touch them!

But nobody else better be putting their dickbeaters on them....

 

[tarbellb]

If it was full of Dallas Cowboys items nobody would say anything.... other then "Cowboys ****"

 

[whateg01]

If it was full of Dallas Cowboys items nobody would say anything.... other then "Cowboys ****"

That would explain why he has that set of boxes as a pick-me-up!

 

[rharman]

1/3? Shoot, we’ve got guys at the shop that practically live there.

I’ve noticed that as you get more years in experience and age, the more homey you make your box and area. New guys have things clean and neat, older guys have coffee makers, stickers, figurines, etc.

Hey now, “Just send it” was the unofficial motto of the night shift when I worked it.

I worked in software... but I kept a bunch of things I'd made in a machining class at the local CC at night sitting around in my office for people to fiddle with while we talked. These days, they can watch me fiddle with them on Zoom.

We used "Ship it!"....

The first job I had in IT was at an independent software house. After a couple of issues with some packages that were distributed, they decided to make a HUGE push on quality - "It doesn't ship until it's right - PERIOD!".

That worked well until they had a contract with a big penalty for any delivery delay. As the deadline drew near, the motto turned into (literally) "F*** it, ship it!" It didn't get any better after that....

 

[scooby074]

Things are different today for sure, but back in the shops Ive worked in, a display like that would have resulted in some serious hazing, rightly or wrongly. Guys I worked with would have went out of their way to **** with that stuff, sad to say.

Acceptable box adornments were pics of the kids, snap on truck mini calendar, pics of the wife/girlfriend, , Snapon "Dont touch my tools" sticker, favourite *******/nudie pic.. Thats it lol. I suppose that would be as equally forbidden today as those figurines would have been back then.. Things change

 

[ohhimark]

Some people like their house to essentially look like a show home for the benefit of others.

I dislike when people put fancy display towels in their bathroom, make sure nobody actually dries their hands on them, yet has no other towels for actual usage.

 

[Wamsutta]

Black with orange trim? Halloween everyday.

 

[zendriver]

What's this extra line here on the invoice?

Oh, sorry sir. Your POS clunker rattled three Hummels off of Steve's hutch.

Interesting how people here seems so obsessed with conformity.

 

[mrb1]

Black with orange trim? Halloween everyday.

Uh no. At least four Cincinnati Bengal stickers, souvenirs in the shot. And a UC Bearcats sticker on the fridge, lower left.

 

[hobie18]

All these expensive, showy edifices. Costly conformity. Excepted exceptionally. Narrow defined ways.
Crazy.

What I say,
Well it probably beats the "find a tool" method.

Haha

 

[LopezBart]

Interesting how people here seems so obsessed with conformity.

The function of advertising and social messaging is demand creation. Some of us are more susceptible to such tactics. It's perhaps bad for our consumer-driven society, but asking oneself - "Why do I think I need this?" can be a useful method of quenching such induced needs. Is it to fit into a demographic? Or is that product actually good, well made and replaces something else you'd otherwise acquire?

Some needs are real, or deliver enough satisfaction to make them worth satisfying... and many are not. Separating the two is important. I think my friend who rebuilt his Stanley steamer from a pile of parts derived a lot more satisfaction from the activity than the other fellows who just wrote a (substantial) check.

Of course, for those with cubic money, virtually anything they want can be acquired. But what a curse! Perhaps the only satisfying thing left to them is the accumulation of more money (or power, cough), since they can easily obtain the best of anything - far better than they can probably create themselves.

 

[NUTTSGT]

The place where you will spend approximately 1/3rd of your life should be completely devoid of any personalization or anything that could possibly bring you joy.

LoL....my corner in the bunk room clearly and most obviously reminds me of home.

 

[cosmokenney]

Spied this gorgeous monstrosity at Daytona Dodge. Sorry about the glass.

50k+?

The minute I saw that box, I'd get back in my car and go to the next shop. I am not paying extra to finance that guys obsession with SciFi.

 

[2ndGearRubber]

The minute I saw that box, I'd get back in my car and go to the next shop. I am not paying extra to finance that guys obsession with SciFi.

I guess you wouldn't bat an eye at the business owners brand new car?


Believe it or not, people can use wages to buy things. I doubt that tech gets paid any extra out of the job to pay for a hobby. You know you pay for people's 401k contributions, right? And drug use and alcoholism?

 

[dr_clyde]

The minute I saw that box, I'd get back in my car and go to the next shop. I am not paying extra to finance that guys obsession with SciFi.

How does an employee's interests affect flat rate pricing?

 

[toolenthusiast]

how about your veterinarian and his room full of life size taxidermy in the waiting room?

Great example. Totally analogous. Valuable contribution, keep it up.

 

[Callelle]

The minute I saw that box, I'd get back in my car and go to the next shop. I am not paying extra to finance that guys obsession with SciFi.

What kind of aack basswords thinking is that?

 

[zendriver]

The function of advertising and social messaging is demand creation. Some of us are more susceptible to such tactics. It's perhaps bad for our consumer-driven society, but asking oneself - "Why do I think I need this?" can be a useful method of quenching such induced needs. Is it to fit into a demographic? Or is that product actually good, well made and replaces something else you'd otherwise acquire?

Some needs are real, or deliver enough satisfaction to make them worth satisfying... and many are not. Separating the two is important. I think my friend who rebuilt his Stanley steamer from a pile of parts derived a lot more satisfaction from the activity than the other fellows who just wrote a (substantial) check.

Of course, for those with cubic money, virtually anything they want can be acquired. But what a curse! Perhaps the only satisfying thing left to them is the accumulation of more money (or power, cough), since they can easily obtain the best of anything - far better than they can probably create themselves.

Perhaps, but My Point was that whatever this person does or does not do to their toolboxes, is their business not ours.

 

[PugetDude]

If it was full of Dallas Cowboys items nobody would say anything.... other then "Cowboys ****"

" We hold these truths to be self-evident"

 

[d.mcfarland]

Are there assumptions of anatomical insufficiencies

I think the collection of life size star wars cosplay gear made that pretty obvious.