Rubber-type material inside tool box?

[badtomatoes]

I'm embarrased that this is my first post. I found your site this morning and I've killed the whole day so far. I NEED to step away from the computer.

Either I'm too dumb to use it or the search function isn't working correctly because I have been looking for a thread I saw this morning before my computer crashed. Someone posted pics of their toolbox with a foam rubber-type material and had a red colored liner underneath to make it very evident if a tool wasn't returned. I'd like to find out more about the material but I can't locate the thread?

Can anyone direct me to it?

Thanks in advance and great site you have here!

 

[transammanv8]

I'm embarrased that this is my first post. I found your site this morning and I've killed the whole day so far. I NEED to step away from the computer.

Either I'm too dumb to use it or the search function isn't working correctly because I have been looking for a thread I saw this morning before my computer crashed. Someone posted pics of their toolbox with a foam rubber-type material and had a red colored liner underneath to make it very evident if a tool wasn't returned. I'd like to find out more about the material but I can't locate the thread?

Can anyone direct me to it?

Thanks in advance and great site you have here!

I didn't see that thread, but is this what you are looking for?

http://www.toolfoam.com/

I priced a set from them for a Snap On KRL box, and it was outrageous....several hundred for the foam.

I work in aviation, and have my box lined in the thick black foam. It is shadowed of course. It is very easy to tell what is missing even though there isn't a contrasting color underneath.

 

[ImportTuner]

I didn't see that thread, but is this what you are looking for?

http://www.toolfoam.com/

I priced a set from them for a Snap On KRL box, and it was outrageous....several hundred for the foam.

I work in aviation, and have my box lined in the thick black foam. It is shadowed of course. It is very easy to tell what is missing even though there isn't a contrasting color underneath.

Wow, that's some neat stuff; too bad the stuff is so expensive ..

 

[Coach James]

Wouldn't a sheet of Celotex do the same thing?

Coach

 

[BoostAddiction]

I'm embarrased that this is my first post. I found your site this morning and I've killed the whole day so far. I NEED to step away from the computer.

Either I'm too dumb to use it or the search function isn't working correctly because I have been looking for a thread I saw this morning before my computer crashed. Someone posted pics of their toolbox with a foam rubber-type material and had a red colored liner underneath to make it very evident if a tool wasn't returned. I'd like to find out more about the material but I can't locate the thread?

Can anyone direct me to it?

Thanks in advance and great site you have here!

You might have seen mention of this in a post I made about my garage (see the bottom for a link to the Garagenous Zone).

When I bought the tool foam, I bought about a dozen sheets each of red and black cut to size to fit my boxes drawers.

I think I paid less than $100 or so for it, which I thought was fair.

It is sometimes surprising to me to see people complain about the cost of small but important things like tool foam and (in another thread) Hansen socket organizers. Sure they cost money and you could do the job other ways at less expense. But I've always been interested in doing the best way possible if it was affordable, and things like $10 socket trays and $100 for tool foam just seem like rounding error when you factor in the total amount most of us have invested in our tools and their organization. I'm guessing that a lot of GJ readers spend more than that in beer every month.

I know there are some people who get great pleasure from doing things at the lowest possible cost, and I don't mean to minimize that approach; only that small things that make organization so much better, especially when they cost so relatively little, seem like good value to me, anyway.

In the case of the tool foam, for example, it probably is a one-time lifetime purchase. In that light, it seems like a pretty good deal.

-Will

 

[badtomatoes]

Thanks for the help, everyone. BoostAdiction- it was in fact your garage pictures that I was looking at. Very impressive!

I know both sides of the cost of tools argument as I am often on one side or the other. My job forces me to scrutinize the cost of tools and equpment. If the tool foam costs me $100-$200, that would be a steal for the convenience I would get in return. Now the prices of some other things, as in epoxy floor coatings, will probably always be too steep for me to handle.

Thanks again!