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NC_Electrician · 03-10-2007, 11:26 PM

OK...I know we had a thread about what we use for tools etc.

How bouts a graphic one, eh??

I'm a major tool freak...why, I don't know..maybe there's a support group out there or sumpin...I dunno...maybe it's not necessary

Anyway, here we go with my day-to-day tool pouch and some stuff from my toolbox that I have on me also...unfortunately, this is not all of my stuff...

Ye' old tool pouch...much used and loved...some of the tools have been with me since I started doing Co-Op in high school

Here's some stuff from my tool box, the bigger stuff generally or specialized tools that aren't used too much.

So..how bout some photos of what you guys carry around or use??

Any questions about my stuff, ask away...

**MDShunk** · 03-10-2007, 11:33 PM

Looks pretty respectable for an employee.

I'd have to ask you to chuck that plumbing parting type cutter.

What's the scoop on the Swanson square?

NC_Electrician · 03-10-2007, 11:37 PM

OK..I may be sacrificed on the alter for this, but I have a confession to make...I use the pipe cutter to score around large feeder conductors to get a perfectly square edge and circumfrence. I don't score the conductors themselves though...then cut with a knive and it leaves a perfect end for terminating in the lugs. It looks very professional and sharp with the phasing tape neatly done above it.

The square is just really convenient and quick for cutting strut, marking studs etc. and a myriad of other tasks. I've had it forever and it's just easy and familiar to me I guess.

faber307 · 03-11-2007, 11:34 AM

I love tools

frank · 03-13-2007, 04:30 PM

OK So you like tools.

Well Friday is Tools Day Expo. I shall be going with a pal of mine and we shall be drooling all day long. If I can think on' I may take some pictures. The exhibition is held at a town just 40 minutes away from my home here in Northern England. I suppose to bump into some of your fellow countrymen since there is a Major US Base there. Hot Dogs. Beefburger. A couple of Beers and men talk all day long 'bliss'

Frank

Founded in the 1950s to monitor High Frequency radio communications, it was operated by the United States' National Security Agency (NSA), and has grown to become the world's largest intelligence-gathering ground station outside the US. Nominally a British Royal Air Force facility, only physical security and UK liaison functions are carried out by MoD personnel, the vast majority of the staff being British GCHQ, American civil service employees, government contractors, as well as U.S. military personnel. The base was also known as Field station F83. Two similar facilities appear to exist at Pine Gap, Australia and Buckley Air Force Base, near Denver, Colorado.

Up until 2003 the base had a Royal Navy equivalent nearby, HMS Forest Moor. This has since been decommissioned as a Naval base and is now run by civilian contractors with MoD assistance.

A Menwith Hill radome.

The base is highly recognisable by its several dozen radomes ('golf balls'), each containing a satellite dish. Many of these are used for signals interception from communications satellites and are commonly thought to be part of the ECHELON system. Other parts of the site are thought to be used by the Space Based Infrared System

brian john · 03-13-2007, 05:08 PM

This is how I get my tools (test equipment) down the road, the important tools are hidden (my fly rods).

**MDShunk** · 03-13-2007, 05:43 PM

Nice rig.

What do you keep in the Kennedy box? They normally have real small drawers, don't they?

brian john · 03-13-2007, 05:50 PM

This one is a standard tool box, sockets, socket drives, wrenches and a variety of torque wrenches.

This is the only decent (TOUGH) tool box I can find, I went through several plastic boxes and Sears sheet metal boxes before I went to kennedy.

Did you notice the free advertising I just realized I caught the name.

**MDShunk** · 03-13-2007, 06:00 PM

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Did you notice the free advertising I just realized I caught the name.

It's fine, brother. You paid for that plug when you shared your pictures of neat stuff.

**MDShunk** · 03-13-2007, 06:09 PM

Pintle hitch too! You tow a backhoe?

JohnJ0906 · 03-13-2007, 10:06 PM

Heres most of mine. I cleaned the van off when I went on vacation last year and brought them home. I've got a few more since then (sigh). I simply don't recognize the concept of "too many tools"

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brian john · 03-13-2007, 10:28 PM

I tow load banks and generators, then there are my kayaks and canoes.

When I drove a van about every 6 months or so I would empty it and do a super job putting everything back. Then I would end up with a bunch of stuiff without a place. Then wham back into the van helter skelter.

wireman3736 · 03-14-2007, 05:45 PM

I have a pouch that is almost the twin of NC_Electrician's pouch, I haven't been able to figure out how to reduce the size to post it though, it's now about 900 kb's, can anyone help,

**MDShunk** · 03-14-2007, 05:56 PM

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Originally Posted by wireman3736

I have a pouch that is almost the twin of NC_Electrician's pouch, I haven't been able to figure out how to reduce the size to post it though, it's now about 900 kb's, can anyone help,

Get your free account at photobucket.com, host your full size picture there, and link to it in your posts here.

NC_Electrician · 03-14-2007, 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by wireman3736

I have a pouch that is almost the twin of NC_Electrician's pouch

Copy cat...blasphemer

wireman3736 · 03-14-2007, 08:22 PM

I think I got it, It's close to a twin, the only thing I see different is I keep my allen wrench set in the truck, also I put my lineman's and screw drivers in the back. I'll have to get a better pic.

There sitting on my Greenlee 4000 lb puller.

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w...6/100_1501.jpg

wireman3736 · 03-14-2007, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by MDShunk

Get your free account at photobucket.com, host your full size picture there, and link to it in your posts here.

Thanks for the imfo, I have to get out more.

John · 03-14-2007, 08:35 PM

I found this in a attic a couple of years ago, did one of you old guys loose your flashlight 75 years ago?

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wireman3736 · 03-14-2007, 08:40 PM

Now that I have learned how to add my pics I came across a couple that were in my collection, work truck and a black bear taking a short cut across my yard.

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w...6/100_0046.jpg

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w...6/100_0579.jpg

John · 03-14-2007, 08:41 PM

Here is some packed up tools.

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