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The Toolbox Thread

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    #32
    Karl Hungus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    Pighead wrote: »
    Is the art of the toolbox dying out or is it just Pighead whos somehow missed this manly boat?

    I don't know...

    I've got a hell of a lot of tools, various screwdrivers (One electric), pliers, allen keys, wrenches, a soldering iron and other assorted kejiggers that I use, and they're basically just occupying various shelves and drawers. I don't actually have a box for them.

    Maybe the box is dead, but tools certainly aren't.


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    #33
    MooseJam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭MooseJam


    theres never a goddamn allen key when you need one


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    #34
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    I have a metric and imperial set!

    /and loads of other stuff. I've never called out a repair man or handyman for the house.

    Mike.


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    #35
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,938 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    I've got an ungainly amount of power tools - I blame coming home hungover to the power tools show on QVC early on Sunday mornings. I don't know what half of them do, and the ones I can work I've rarely to never used (laser leveller, etc). And I've four boxes full of other tools - one big RAC toolchest, and three other ones full of assorted stuff. Theres at least two huge socket sets amongst them.

    In everyday use, all that ever gets out is the drill, few size drill bits, hammer, 10mm and 13mm spanners, stanley knife and snips. Which is all you need to do satellite installs, other than a ladder (which I've three of, ffs) and a signal meter (which I've way too many of also).


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    #36
    nesf
    Registered Users Posts: 27,645 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    A small selection, half of it here, half of it back at my parent's place. Several screwdrivers (incl. mains testers), a set of allen keys, a claw hammer, a soldering iron, a multimeter, a vice-grips, a minature hacksaw, a hacksaw, a measuring tape, several snips/pliers, several multi-tools and army knives and assorted other bits and pieces picked up for one-off jobs etc.

    I've never bought any power tools, I just borrow them from my dad if they are needed.


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    #37
    Karl Hungus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    That reminds me, I really need a new stanley knife and a multimeter.


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    #38
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    I have no toolbox but a bag so it goes where I go! I bought a 10" table saw a few weeks ago, tis the only power tool I have.


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    #39
    Pighead
    Registered Users Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    Terry wrote: »
    Pighead's a tool in his own right.

    Incidentally, I looked at the AH ban list the other day and it tells me you are banned. Git oot.
    Post reported by Pighead. Name calling is the 2nd worse thing in the world(after bombs).

    Are you saying Pighead was on the banned list? Must be some mistake. There hasn't been a more concientious or helpful poster in these parts over the last few months. Pigheads been a good boy of late and has steered well clear of any bannings. Those wild unpredictable days are well and truly over.


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    #40
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    My toolbox runneth over.


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    #41
    nesf
    Registered Users Posts: 27,645 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    Pighead wrote: »
    Are you saying Pighead was on the banned list?

    No, the person he quoted is the one who's banned...


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    #42
    Terry
    Registered Users Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Pighead wrote: »
    Post reported by Pighead. Name calling is the 2nd worse thing in the world(after bombs).

    Are you saying Pighead was on the banned list? Must be some mistake. There hasn't been a more concientious or helpful poster in these parts over the last few months. Pigheads been a good boy of late and has steered well clear of any bannings. Those wild unpredictable days are well and truly over.
    Tools are good things.

    Also, I was saying that Beruthial is on the ban list, not you.


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    #43
    Pighead
    Registered Users Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    Terry wrote: »
    Tools are good things.

    Also, I was saying that Beruthial is on the ban list, not you.
    Oh. Pighead feels petty now for reporting your post. It was a rare moment of spite. Hope you don't get in trouble or lose your modship over this. You're a good man Terry.


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    #44
    mawk
    Registered Users Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭mawk


    anyone using a kitchen knife to undo screws deserves to lose their fingers.

    also i dont so much have a big toolbox in the shed so much as two full sheds worth..


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    #45
    Pighead
    Registered Users Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    mawk wrote: »
    anyone using a kitchen knife to undo screws deserves to lose their fingers.

    also i dont so much have a big toolbox in the shed so much as two full sheds worth..
    Pigheads word, that's quite an impressive amount of tools you claim to have. Although there is every possibility you may have a small todger and are trying to compensate. There is also the possibilty the two sheds you speak of are extremely small in length and width thus negating the impressiveness of it all.

    How big are your sheds buddy?(to the nearest inch will do)


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    #46
    randylonghorn
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 29,509 Mod ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    Pighead wrote: »
    When Pighead was a kid every man around the area had a huge toolbox sitting proudly on display ... pretty sure 80% of them were never used.
    Personally, I prefer not to put mine on public display except to intimate friends of the female gender. However, it definitely gets used on a reasonably regular basis.

    Actually, Pighead, I think you are to be commended for not sitting round comparing notes with the males of the family on this issue ...


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    #47
    David Michael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 677 ✭✭✭David Michael


    I have a factory. Welders included. MIG etc.


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    #48
    knird evol
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭knird evol


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qciAWZ3Sn4o&NR=1


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    #49
    Beruthiel
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    Terry wrote: »
    I was saying that Beruthial is on the ban list, not you.

    That's a total slur on my good name sir!
    Retract that claim or it's pistols at dawn.


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    #50
    Terry
    Registered Users Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Beruthiel wrote: »
    That's a total slur on my good name sir!
    Retract that claim or it's pistols at dawn.

    Pistols it is. :D


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    #51
    ibh
    Registered Users Posts: 1,722 ✭✭✭ibh


    I hope this thread keeps going till tomorrow. That way i can get home from work this evening and take a picture of my toolbox and post it here.. Cue innuendo!!!


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    #52
    Beruthiel
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    Terry wrote: »
    Pistols it is. :D

    Egg on your face there Terry. :p

    I think you'll find, if you go searching, that more than one little revengful, banned muppet re-regged under my nickname - as in this case, spelt a tiny bit differently every time.
    <-- my nick name - Beruthiel
    the one on the ban list Berutheil

    Now,
    about that apology....?


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    #53
    dame
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,623 ✭✭✭dame


    David Michael wrote: »
    I have a factory. Welders included. MIG etc.

    Ooh, I think your factory has intimidated all the boys with their sheds and toolboxes....only one (ibh) has mentioned his since! :D


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    #54
    ibh
    Registered Users Posts: 1,722 ✭✭✭ibh


    dame wrote: »
    Ooh, I think your factory has intimidated all the boys with their sheds and toolboxes....only one (ibh) has mentioned his since! :D

    Yea but you should see the size of my toolbox.. It's unfcuking real...
    David Michael will be the one intimidated!
    *checks the size of toolbox. Mmmn not at all disappointed*

    (*feels a bit sleazy after that post. But in a good way!*)


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    #55
    layke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,956 ✭✭✭layke


    My took box is mighty. I have everything from drills to spirit levels. To add to my manlyness, I am also sporting a hairy chest and unshaven face.

    I am all that is man.


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    #56
    Kernel
    Registered Users Posts: 4,388 ✭✭✭Kernel


    Jeebus Pighead, you're not even trying anymore with these threads. The 30 year slump has hit you I see....

    As for tools, the only tool I need is the 12 inch one I use for servicing. ;)

    (yes.. I did leave that open for comebacks about large spanner/ratchet etc..)


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    #57
    MooseJam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭MooseJam


    my schlong is the size of a black pudding


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    #58
    randylonghorn
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 29,509 Mod ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    MooseJam wrote: »
    my schlong is the size of a black pudding

    ... and as lifeless as one!



    Sorry, MooseJam, but totally irresistible! :D


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    #59
    MooseJam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭MooseJam


    randylonghorn wrote: »
    ... and as lifeless as one!
    [/SIZE]

    booo urns :D


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    #60
    WhiteWashMan
    Registered Users Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    i have a toolbox, and many screwdrivers.
    i even have a couple of power tools.
    and a chainsaw!

    but in the grand scale of manly tools, i am severly lacking.


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