One of the three toy story aliens that live in my toolbox, placed there by my kids.
The air tool drawer, everything from die grinders, impacts 3/8" to 3/4", an air powered vaccuum, a solvent sprayer, a 2" grinder, and more.
A snap-on pneumatic scraper, great for gaskets on heavy diesel engines that have been glued in place with cat green glue.
Metric wrenches through 19mm or so.
Standard wrenches through 1" or so.
Assorted specialty service tools.
Drill bits through 1", transfer punches, pretty much just fabrication tools, drawer 1 of 3.
The drawer of big tools. Standard wrenches though 2", Metric though 36mm. Sockets through 2 1/2", 3/4 drive ratchets.
The preferred method of keeping big wrenches in place, a large spring.
Prybars, punches and chisels, bearing race drivers, wilton unbreakable sledgehammers (4# hand size, 8# 2ft and 12# 3ft), break-in tools (big easy is in the top drawer, the accessories are in here) and lockpicks. Specialty diagnostic tools (noid lights, vaccuum test kit, oil pressure test kit, hydraulic test kit, gas and diesel compression gauges, etc.) An airlift for coolant re-fills.
Everyday use pliers.
The rest of the pliers.
A couple of different kinds of vice grips, fabrication tools drawer 2 of 3.
Enough orange hard handles to make most of you jealous.
Electrical tools, Anti-zaps for welding on equipment, zip-tie pullers, assorted terminal tools.
A couple of pullers, the shop supplies the rest of them, per union contract. Also a rarely used ratcheting screwdriver kit.
Fabrication tools drawer 3 of 3, also 4wd spindle nut sockets in the plastic box.
Hydraulic caps/plugs through -24 in JIC and ORFS, commonly used rivets and riv-nuts, assorted misc.
Lube tools, with the exception of my biggest filter wrench which won't fit in that drawer.
Hammers, I hate the new style red handles with the exception of the deadblow hammers. I much prefer the orange handle hammers because the heads are narrower. Both of the large ballpeen hammers are 40oz, and you can see the difference.
Welding hood, respirator, battery load tester (in the black box), caliper compression tools, under the tray is a oiled hub drain pan for big truck hubs, misc. other stuff.
That's (mostly) it for my personal tools, some of the cooler shop stuff follows:
Drill bits through 2"
Platen style welding table.
Lathe, the tan cabinet contains tooling for it.
Wilton drill press, sheet metal brake.
Plasma, big drill press, Miller welder.
And since I knew someone might ask, it's a shopmaster 300, with an XR wirefeed with a 30' push/pull gun and .045 wire. Also runs a HF/pulse box for TIG. We also have a Lincoln Idealarc 400 if you really want to get down and dirty with stick welding.
New toys at work. Lift system for big trucks, they lift 16k each, wireless control syncs them together. They'll pick up 64k combined to the same height as a standard automotive lift.
And Last, a couple of pics of what we work on.
A new M-series Cat roadgrader, no more steering wheel or levers, it's all joystick controls on this one.
It's in the shop for a busted snow gate. We do a lot of medium to heavy fabrication work. The gate is one of the things we built. Grader plows snow with the gate up, when a driveway comes up the gate goes down so we don't leave a berm in front of the driveway.
A snowblower. It'll fill a 13yd dumptruck with snow in about 30 seconds, depending on how wet the snow is. It's carried/pushed by the 966 loader behind it.
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