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TheMadMech

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I just got a new maintenance job at a wine bottle manufacturer. Pay is great, benefits are excellent, people are eager to help me learn the process, and things couldn't be better except...

except...

I don't need that many tools....:shocking:

This job involves a lot of fine tuning and calibrating inspection machines and in a month I've used maybe a dozen tools and mostly just a few wrenches and hex keys.

My beautiful tools sit in a toolbox waiting their lonely wait for me to visit again...

I didn't know where else to commiserate this sadness with so, here it is.
 
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buckwheat_la

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Lol it isn't that bad. Time to take up wrenching at home. I have a construction/landscape business and a mechanic in our shop so I don't do much mechanic work anymore however the girlfriends car needed a oil change so I decided to just do it at home, you would have thought by her reaction I had performed magic..... Point of the story is make the oppotunity to use your tools.....
 
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heytrid

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Same thing when I got into Automation/Controls, I needed a few things but once I bought those... I could carry everything around in a klein bag... In 3 years some of the items in my bag had never been taken out.
 
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Many years ago I had just the opposite happen. I interviewed for a electrical maintenance position at a lead acid battery plant. When they were going through my resume and discovered my mechanical and machining backround they asked if I would mind turning a wrench if needed. I bet I was there a couple months before I ever pulled out my meter. Lol

And congrats on the new job, sounds like a great place to work!
 
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Obviously you need to buy your unused tools some new tool playmates.


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TheMadMech said:
I just got a new maintenance job at a wine bottle manufacturer. Pay is great, benefits are excellent, people are eager to help me learn the process, and things couldn't be better except...

except...

I don't need that many tools....:shocking:

This job involves a lot of fine tuning and calibrating inspection machines and in a month I've used maybe a dozen tools and mostly just a few wrenches and hex keys.

My beautiful tools sit in a toolbox waiting their lonely wait for me to visit again...

I didn't know where else to commiserate this sadness with so, here it is.
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buckwheat_la said:
Lol it isn't that bad. Time to take up wrenching at home. I have a construction/landscape business and a mechanic in our shop so I don't do much mechanic work anymore however the girlfriends car needed a oil change so I decided to just do it at home, you would have thought by her reaction I had performed magic..... Point of the story is make the oppotunity to use your tools.....
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I'm in a combination of these scenarios.

I took a job at a mid-size cabinetry manufacturing facility with a number of CNC machines as well as building, packaging and shipping. I have a decent background in electrical & controls as well as mechanical maintenance.

I was told there is a solid mix of mechanical and electrical tasks.

Outside of my 8, 10, 13mm wrenches and 4, 5, 6mm hex keys, Phillips screwdriver and a small slotted screwdriver, wire stripper, and a Fluke T-1000 meter I never touched anything else in my box.

Air tools, sockets, breaker bar, fractional anything, just never gets used.

And then I got promoted to maintenance supervisor.

Now it is meetings, emails, and jumping in when the other guys need assistance.

I did brake pads on the wife's car and changed my oil today. Exciting!
 
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chrisnazzy

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I don't keep or use my tools at work but probably have a more extensive tool inventory than most mechanics who've ever worked for us. Working at one of the busiest full service automotive service and tire shops out of our whole national chain I could easily have anything I needed done completed at work but just in the last 30 days I have tackled several jobs at home just to use my tools, challenge myself and/or save me or my family a few bucks. They have included.......

- 2" Readylift SST lift kit on my Honda Pilot
- front brake pads and rotors on my dad's 1998 Tahoe
- complete cooling system overhaul on my dad's Tahoe including radiator, water pump, all hoses, temp sensor, thermostat, housing and reservoir.
 
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davethorik

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Just happened to me. I was a machinist for 8 yrs, got laid off, wound up doing contracting/property mgmt/pool construction. Entirely different set of tools, lol. I don't have a garage and couldn't find a place so my Kennedy roller is now in my bedroom.
 
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