tool box liner that forms to tools

[camaro0991]

Recently a freind of mine who has a realitive in the Air force was telling me of a special tool box liner the helicopter mechanics use. Aparently you cut it to drawer size, you then place tools in the position you want, and bake it in the oven, and the tools then sink into the material, creating a formed liner for your tools in each drawer. This way they can tell weather you left a tool in the helicopter somewhere, which would be a bad thing. anyone ever heard of this? Im wondering if its B.S., or someone's one off idea, or something availible. Thanks all.

 

[Mad40er]

This place has those instructions on there site. Dont put your plastic handles in though! LOL

http://www.toolfoam.com/howtocut.asp

 

[jjjrmx5]

Recently a freind of mine who has a realitive in the Air force was telling me of a special tool box liner the helicopter mechanics use. Aparently you cut it to drawer size, you then place tools in the position you want, and bake it in the oven, and the tools then sink into the material, creating a formed liner for your tools in each drawer. This way they can tell weather you left a tool in the helicopter somewhere, which would be a bad thing. anyone ever heard of this? Im wondering if its B.S., or someone's one off idea, or something availible. Thanks all.

No BS. The practice is called "shadowing" your tools. Used in the military and often by military defense contractors as well as the aviation industry.

It just reminds the user to not misplace tools in critical areas of machinery and forget or lose them.

I;ve seen it done in the dual layer foam material where the top layer has teh cutouts and the bottom layer act as the drawer liner.

Not aware of the "easy bake oven" mat'l and that approach. LOL

 

[bluebolt]

No BS. The practice is called "shadowing" your tools. Used in the military and often by military defense contractors as well as the aviation industry.

It just reminds the user to not misplace tools in critical areas of machinery and forget or lose them.

I;ve seen it done in the dual layer foam material where the top layer has teh cutouts and the bottom layer act as the drawer liner.

Not aware of the "easy bake oven" mat'l and that approach. LOL

I was an AF aircraft toolcrib superviser and we used the shadowing method in most boxes. Would use contrasting colors between top and botton, different squadorns would use different colors, Blue squadron (mine) was blue thick layer on top and yellow thin layer on bottom, Red squadron was red on top and I believe yellow on botton and Gold squadron was yellow on top and black on bottom. Missing tool means aircraft are grounded. Aircraft would also be grounded if the aircrew lost something like a pen or other small object. A pen or small screwdriver jammed in the throttle conrols or other linkage can and HAS crashed airplanes.