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My First Real Tool Box! - Organization?

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Subject: My First Real Tool Box! - Organization?
From: Lee Daniels <DANIELS@alchem.chem.tamu.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 10:31:58 -0600
My wonderful wife has provided me with my first *real* tool box, and it's a 
beauty.  Well, to me, at least.  It's a "Blue Point" brand (by Snap-On).
Has top and bottom sections, each with drawers ranging from 1" deep to 4".
The top swings open on hinges, and closes to lock that section.  It 
included the nice black dense foam drawer liners.

MY QUESTION: How does one go about organizing your tools? Suggestions for 
what best goes in the shallow drawers vs. the deeper ones?  How do I keep 
that very top compartment (with the lid) from becoming a junk collection?!?
Should I sort them by field, i.e. metal working, woodworking, electrical 
tools?

This came about because I had been looking at boxes at Sears, and she knew 
that I had to have the ball-bearing drawers, etc.  The local Snap-On guy is 
a good friend of ours, and he gave her a great deal on the box, even though 
it cost about twice what I was planning to spend!  Hmm, now I guess she 
gets whatever she wants this year...

thanks - Lee

   Lee M. Daniels         Laboratory for Molecular Structure and Bonding
   daniels@tamu.edu                                 Texas A&M University
   '74 TR6                                  http://acs.tamu.edu/~lmd1191

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