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How many of you lot have broken something or chipped door or scratched a wall carrying your tool box through a house ?
I was out jobbing yesterday and carrying my tool box which is a fair size through the house and the lady had her hands on my tool box guiding it through the house . When asked why she said previous worker crashed it into a table knocking ornaments everywhere !
 
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I it fed up of the plastic tool boxes falling to bits and don't get on with toolbars, so had gone back to a metal cantilevered box downsides being its heavy and if it hit a doorframe I'm sure it would take a huge chunk out of it.
 
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We all get bored and circulate what we try. I'm back to tote bags (Fat Max) after a couple of years of deep trays. Before that it was standard plastic tool boxes, I'll just keep repeating the cycle until someone invents one tool that does everything. Then I'll just buy two of them for when I lose the first one.
 
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I applied the the same thinking to my decision to buy the fatmax xl tech bag LS, thinking to my self "oh lovely ill just have a few screw drivers and grips in there..." six months later i could barley lift it let alone throw it on my shoulder because all the tools from my box, plus my impact driver had found their way into the bag!.
 
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I started with a big toolbox!! but have now gone for a small tote bag, on my second one, fat max at the mo!! still have to empty it every now and again because i can't lift it!! gave it a good clean out the other day recon there must have been at least a fivers worth of copper off cuts in there plus the rubbish that accumulates from jobbing!!
you know when you have to much stuff in your bag when you have the handle in your hand but the bag is now at the bottom of the stairs!!
 
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Get yourself one of these:


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It's the Stanley fatmax tool box (standard size) I keep all my main tools in it (grips, screw drivers, pipe slices etc) and have another (large version) to store my other tools in (bolsters, lump hamer, monoblock tap spanners etc).

There brilliant tool boxs, I've had mine for about a year now and it's still going strong even though it had its fair share of abuse. I even use it as a portable step, to get at those things that are always just out of arms reach.
 
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I think i must have bought just about every make of plastic tool box out there. They are all junk, even the £100 quid ones don't last much longer than 6 months.
I am seriously thinking of going back to the old tool bag like this Faithfull Carpenters Tool Bag No.3 - 30in - Faithfull Power Plus available at Toolbox
At least when you spread it on the floor you can find anything you want and at £6 odds a throw, if it lasts 3 months who cares.

Btw i don't need a fashion contest for a tool box, i just need to carry them.
 
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Trust me veto are worth every penny. It's nothing to do with fashion it's about a tool bag that works whilst looking professional! I've been through that many boxs and bag's that last five minutes stanley toote bags inculed. What a pile of crap! Last me about twelve months then knackered! The pro pack is the first bag that I don't have to empty to find what I'm looking for, everything is easily accessible and I know if anythings missing. For the amount of bags/boxs I'd go through in the five year warrenty offered its well worth the money. I think in the next eighteen months these will really take off, can't recommend them enough.
 
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M77 said:
Trust me veto are worth every penny. It's nothing to do with fashion it's about a tool bag that works whilst looking professional! I've been through that many boxs and bag's that last five minutes stanley toote bags inculed. What a pile of crap! Last me about twelve months then knackered! The pro pack is the first bag that I don't have to empty to find what I'm looking for, everything is easily accessible and I know if anythings missing. For the amount of bags/boxs I'd go through in the five year warrenty offered its well worth the money. I think in the next eighteen months these will really take off, can't recommend them enough.
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They do look the dogs b****cks.

I think some are confusing fashion with style :devilish:
 
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The Veto bags with their vertical compartments would be useless for install - fast work where you need to throw the tool in the box then pick it out next time you need it. Where would you put your 2ft level, your springs, your 4lb hammer, your 18" chisel etc.
Fashion and style may make you feel better but it won't make you a better plumber or enable you to work faster or get you paid any more.
 
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gas man said:
but if you cant find anything your slowed down i like the idea of a simple bag lay it down you can see all your kit
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That is the beauty and simplicity of the old bags. When you sat it down your tools were literally spread in front of you on the floor. Colour code your stuff and you will find it instantly and at the end of the job you just lift it up and walk out.
Not all new things are an improvement on the past.
 
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not a toolbox but was shaking my dust sheet last week to lay it out and protect the floor when it hit the lamp, which had loads of glass bits hanging from it, they all came down pretty fast.

they all went back up very quickly, shame about the noise it made, lol
 
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M77 said:
That's the point you don't need to organise them! Their already organised!
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I appreciate what you are saying but tools and bags don't organise themselves no matter how much or little they cost. You need to be able to throw, not place, the tool in and find it straight away next time you want it.
What i would really like is a smart tool bag that i can hold my hand out behind me and it puts the correct tool in my hand without me asking. AFAIK the only tool that can do that is a switched on 1st year apprentice :smile:
 
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