What type of Tool Case do you use??

[gordon stelter]

I keep mine in cheap plastic toolboxes, but waterproof
around the rivets for the handle.  Because they, and
the tools, are more cleanable this way. I could have a
 fancy toolbox with velour pockets for all my tools,
which would make my customers gaze in amazement at how
perfeshunal I appear. But that's just B.S. If I am
putting tools contaminated with mouse crap in the
pockets, then pulling them out to use on a customer's
new $50,00 grand, that would make me a selfish and
crude scumbag. And I keep paper towells and alcohol on
hand to wipe my tools down.
      And cheap looking toolboxes are far less
attractive to thieves.
     Thump

--- David Love <davidlovepianos@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Mine is the 216-101 which has two pallets on one
> side and a built in tool
> holder on the other.  The bag is designed to stand
> upright and has a large
> compartment in the middle which I use for the
> Verituner, miscellaneous
> felt, a small box of punchings, an Acrilikey kit,
> some sheets of sandpaper
> in a small slip pouch, a variety of liquids on small
> applicator bottles,
> and a spare few parts that I seems to need from time
> to time.  Everything
> is held in these plastic boxes that disposable wipes
> come in (very handy
> boxes left over from when my kids were younger). 
> The outer pallets hold a
> variety of tools.  I, too, keep editing down the kit
> as it tends to get
> heavy.  I do carry a set of fold up wheels in the
> car for times when I
> can't park right in front of the customer's house. 
> I keep a separate
> stringing kit in the car with a whole range of wire
> and various stringing
> tools.   One other thing I keep in the kit is a few
> sample hammers glued
> onto shanks for slipping quickly into the piano to
> demonstrate to customers
> how awful their worn out hammers sound.  Live
> demonstrations can be quite
> effective.  
> 
> David Love
> davidlovepianos@earthlink.net
> 
> 
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Bill Ballard <yardbird@vermontel.net>
> > To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
> > Date: 9/7/2003 6:41:08 AM
> > Subject: Re: What type of Tool Case do you use??
> >
> > At 1:42 PM -0700 9/6/03, David Love wrote:
> > >Jensen offers a variety of nice cases depending
> on your needs.  I use the
> > >one below, a triple sided cordura case.
> >
> > I've use Jensen cordura bags for nearly twenty
> years, and my last one 
> > was the double-sided (216-301). (Triple-sided,
> David? Does yours hold 
> > four pallets or six?) At least with Jensen, you
> can buy the bag and 
> > the pallets separately, when one or the other
> craps out. The zippers 
> > on the bags would fails at odd intervals (anywhere
> from 15 months to 
> > 4 years). and the pallets pouch would tear because
> I would insist on 
> > cramming as many tools in a single pouch as I
> could. (Two or three 
> > pliers nesting into each other in one large plier
> pouch. In a pouch 
> > normally made for a single screwdriver handle, I
> stuff 6-8 small 
> > tools: an LO wrench, a 15/64" open-end wrench,
> brass punch for string 
> > seating, rachet offset screwdriver, double-ended
> spinet capstan 
> > wrench, 5/16 box/open-end wrench.....you get the
> puncture).
> >
> > I actually had a brand new Genck case for two
> weeks ago year ago (go 
> > look it up in the archives: Fri, 4 Oct 2002--RE:
> Genck Tool Case). A 
> > beautiful case but its pallets were too limiting.
> Bruce Genck put 
> > alot of thought into his pallet design, but my
> transfer from four 
> > pallets to two wasn't going to work with his
> design. So I returned it 
> > to Schaff (as I warned them I might).
> >
> > There was also John Ross's LowePro Nova 5, but my
> problem was not 
> > carrying more tools but less. After 30 years of
> tuning, it's not my 
> > ears which complain after a long hard day, but my
> hands and wrists. 
> > After setting the tool bag in front of piano #1,
> the morning after a 
> > long hard day, the hand which carried in the bag
> had a low burning 
> > feeling. Part of that was the one arm/hand swing
> I'd used to get the 
> > bag on the passenger seat of my car to follow me
> out the driver side 
> > door. But the majority of that was the weight  of
> my accumulating 
> > collection of tools.
> >
> > I continued on with my aging Jensen double-side
> bag, until mid-June 
> > this summer when I happened by a yard sale, with
> two laptop bags. 
> > One, a Targas, I bought for $1, and gave to my son
> (a long-overdue 
> > gift allowing him to his laptop move out of a
> cloth bag.) The second 
> > one had a Mac PB2300c. I talked the price down
> from $25 to $15 
> > because of a missing power converter. The light
> bulb went on when I 
> > discovered that the Jensen pallets would drop
> right into my laptop 
> > bag. The real delight was the shoulder strap which
> placed the weight 
> > of the bag in the small of my back. I'm still in
> the "tool histogram" 
> > survey to settle  for once and for all, what gets
> to live on those 
> > two pallets (laying one on top of the other, no
> structural 
> > separators). But with four "full-bag" dimension
> pockets in the top 
> > half of the bag, I've got room to spare. So much
> so that the total 
> > weight may creep right back up  into the "danger
> zone".
> >
> > So that's my story and I'm sticking to it. (Better
> ramble than rant,
> right?)
> >
> > Bill Ballard RPT
> > NH Chapter, P.T.G.
> >
> > "So, I hear you like baked goods"
> >      ...........A new customer, very happy to see
> me
> > +++++++++++++++++++++
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