Tool porn

I'm pretty happy with mine to be fair. Once it wears in I think it will be spot on. But thank you.

My setup, I don’t have as much tools in mine.

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Front, the play down flap I have like tape and stuff in it.

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Back. I have all that stuff in it. Light I either carry or it hangs off the side like the hammer and my keys and tape usually.

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I caved in November and bought a Veto at a tool show. Should have done it years ago! I went with the small zip top type because it fits in the Brompton rack bag.

When I'm walking to a job it has the drill strapped to the side. There's even an apron plane in there.

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I switched from Wera screwdrivers to the Felo E-Slim. I like them a lot more and they take up less room in the bag too.

This setup is general small works, I have a different bag for electrics only that I can wear.

Love to see other people’s set ups like.
Also ridiculous how much fits in them!

Totally agree, this is the 'get me out of most situations' bag, halfway through its last clean out. It's a bag that's so rubbish it's brilliant ~£15 with no hard or reinforce base so less scratchy and nicer to pick up/ hold

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Not been used for many years, but most of my work used to be overseas. It still is, only these days I use locally based teams, and my role is more managerial than hands-on. I fitted the lid with a couple of gas struts, so that when you popped the catches, the lid would slowly rise - speed dependant on the weight of the tools in the lid.

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Why does your drill have a bidon attachment?

The internal holds a ¼" bit with a magnet, the external (with the internal) holds the priority chucks.. I'd really want to say it's where he keeps his coffee, and I'd be well impressed if it was...

*proprietary chucks, ^^^there's one in the side on image below

This!

I love that they are portable shadow boards.

This is class - what's your line of work?

Had me confused for a while! It's a centrotec connector, as @bluehuw noted it's proprietary. Taking the chuck off stops me from digging it into door frames on the way into properties.

Thank you. I used to do R&D and sales of existing interactive exhibits from The Science Museum for overseas museums. Lots of machine tool - lathes / milling machines experience.
Lots of tool-making experience.
These days I manage the installation of large format advertising (banners up to 50m x 5m as well as building wraps) for a fruit-named computer manufacturer from Cupertino, whom an NDA prevents me from naming.

Ah wow - that's super interesting! I worked installing art exhibitions and the occasional museum exhibit for a decade before becoming a spark. Still wonder if there's a way to combine the two to end up doing something a bit more interesting (and spend my days breathing fewer toxic substances).
How do you even get into something like that in a way that isn't a dead end (like installing art exhibitions).

On the other hand, you dont wanna see my velocity tool bag, which is my big job bag. I hate it and curse it with a passion but will not change as it was £175 or something stupid.

Few mates have them - why the ire for it? Thought they looked decent, was a bit jealous of some of the features even.

I don't know how you would get into it these days.
In my case with The Science Museum, a friend who was working there asked if I could "come in for a couple of weeks to help out".
Six years later I was still there, having travelled a fair chunk of the northern hemisphere during that time.

To go with the nipple driver I made last week, I knocked up a quick shuffle box on the laser cutter from 4mm ply. Happy to share the file with anyone who wants to cut their own.

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How’s your slat spacing?

It took me quite a while to get it right when I made some a few years back.

I ended up doing an empty box and slatted insert so I could try a few different iterations.

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Are you slat shaming?

Without tools its so fuckin heavy man, so many people had a hard on for them coz that PB plumber was going on about them and they sponsored him. If I hadn't bought it used I would have returned it.

I think I just went for 4mm which seems to work pretty well. There are a couple of tighter slots as the cheap crafting balsa ply isn’t that flat out of the packet so I don’t think fractions of a mm on the slat spacing will make a difference to the functionality.