is that like memory foam ?

 

Kevin it looks like that we work in similar branches.
Missile and Radar tools and test equipment does look similar.
Our tools are stored into 6 Oshkosh sized trucks. The cabins include the hydraulic hose shop with pressure testing, the magnaflux and x-ray shop.
I would love to show pic's- but it is restricted area.


No rings, watches, earrings, piercings or chains...
Everything disassembeled goes nice and neatley into labeled boxes. We also have BIG trouble when a bolt or nut is left or missing.
Nothing moves until that part is back.
Can really cause nightshifts.
We have that same foam just in black with a signal yellow ground below the tool.
You will recognize imedeatly a missing tool.

Very nice post, Kevin!

 

No - its closed cell foam thats sold in camping stores

 

Yep just plain old camping foam it comes in a 6 foot roll at walmart. I have the black drawer liner under that so when the tool is removed there is a black hole. Yellow would be nice if it was readily available.We get hammered all the time for a little metal shaving on the floor of the hanger it gets really extreme.After 20 years of doing this kind of work I have seen lots of changes but tool control and foreign object debris (FOD) is still the most important thing.

 

that way to neat of a box, ill have to get pics of mine, it looks like a tornado went through

 

DAMN! I've got 3 times as many tools stuffed into a box HALF that size. Mine looks like a tornado went through it also! I wish I was as organized as you but I'd need more boxes and don't have the space

I've got a friend...an idiot savant, or "hillbilly savant" as we like to call him. He is the most unorganized SOB I've ever met. His toolbox is empty, but his garage is ful of tools. He totes them around in his wheelbarrow and 5-gallon buckets. About once every 2 months he re-organizes the shop by sweeping everything off the floor and picking through it to find his tools, loads them back into the toolbox...then the mess cycle starts over. It's crazy the stuff he builds even when he can't find the right tool for the job.

My lil bro is a Helicopter Mechanic and is very particular about his tools, he's only a couple years in, so his tool collection is growing. I'll send him the link to this, he'd be impressed as well.

 

some work has to be done while the radar is operating in ready to radiate that means you work next 40kV( 40.000Volt).
You simply don't want to have slippery and greasy tools or unorganized area to work .

Otherwise you can get a nice new electric hairstyle the last time in your life.

 

I envy your collection. I should be going to school for AMT in the fall now that I got the military thing knocked out. I should have my A&P by the time I'm 32

 

I resemble the remarks above...

I have two boxes and a big cabinet full of "plastic boxes" (the good stuff that comes in kit form) and everything is stuffed to the gills. It would take me a top and bottom triple bank to even have all my tools laying in one layer, and a Mr. Big (Snappy KRL1065APBO, Roll Cab, Five Bank, Extended Cab System, 35 Drawers, Red) to fit all my stuff in one box (including all the kits).

I can't afford to spend that sort of money on storage only. Wish I would have found myself a decent box while I was still running the tool truck.

 

damn i wish my tool box looked like that i dont have the patence to cut all those damn holes tho