What type of Tool Case do you use??

[Avery Todd]

Well, if you do that, why do you worry about WHAT you
put your tools back into????? :-)

>And I keep paper towells and alcohol on
>hand to wipe my tools down.
>       And cheap looking toolboxes are far less
>attractive to thieves.

True, but who wants to carry something like that
into a customers home??

Flame suit on!

Avery

>      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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