You’re forgiven, Joep. We call them keys too.
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These are wenches. You turn them on with dollars. They will work on nuts but are useless with most other fasteners.
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Well my in-the-trunk jumble, was the-now-retired me.
As much as has been said, a confuse a thief security measure.
Now me professionally working TomH. and JoepK. those flat pac slotted all-tools storage were the very first thing I’d chuck into the trash can.
Ready access sockets were in plastic base trays with upright molded marked plastic pins. Loose fit for easy on and off. Seldom used specialty sockets like Allen and Torx were on their own dedicated all metal snap strips.
Wenches use-stored similar as you pictured on flat backed slotted racks. Plastic and metal.
Tiny, tiny like 1/4" sockets and the smallest; ready-use stored in low plastic many hole blocks. Some had flat magnetic bar bases.
All handled ready use tools slapped up daily onto cart edges mounted bar-strip magnets.
Reach out; grab and work.
Doing a job I never put anything back but stacked the in-use tools onto magnetic trays.
I had a bunch of plastic pocketed trays I’d use dissembling for the same component or panel layer removed fasteners. I’d put nuts&bolts, screws as removed common, in a pocket in an “around the clock” order. Ha! Analog me.
Just me as I speed evolved . . . I’d always start at the 12:00 o’clock pocket working counter-clockwise around the tray. Why? Later that day; or even 2-3 days out I’d start assembling from the 1 o’clock pocket progressively clockwise around. Use up all of a pockets fasteners then that step was DONE. Move onto the next. Kept the mind freed up for working another jobs, diagnostic-puzzle.
Muscle-memory “bolt-memory of the removal” allowing this mind doubling working.
And another speed trick was to just have more variations of the same. Must of had ten, 10 mm variety of sockets; the same with 10 mm various wrenches. Grab anything that would work for the easy situations. Go for the 10mm specialist for the only one-way, tough ones.
Goren in picture showed up a combination wrench with the end torch bent around to be a specialist. As he showed; still works OK/fine as a common.
Extensions just stack up more bought and acquired. The tool-truck 5 degree end minor articulating lifesavers stacked up for reaching deep in, and around.
Ha! Sorry no saved pictures of this.
In Shops I was often called a Tool-Hog. Stupid. It was always my money diverted to buy and use to “make time”. One of my most effective speed demon tricks.
Another of my speed tricks was an end cart power tool hanging rack as you pictured JoeK.
Mine were 1/4"; 3/8" & 1/2 inch air-guns and air-ratchets. Six of them.
Simple. Evolved. And I’d always thought . . . elegant.
Steve Unruh
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JoepK. I was much admiring the great practical shaped screw drivers you show in your first picture.
Liked so much; I ran down to the local hardware store and bought a similar shaped 10 piece set for the wife to replace out her now tips worn out, always been junk, screw drivers. It is her birthday the 24th of this month.
I call this shape “palm’sters” for filling fitting within the palm of the hand.
Read the Stanley features promotion and it is true for multipurpose using.
Finger tips precision:
see the thumb underneath twirling.
For full palm filling, full strength torquing:
A bit too small for my hands. Just right for hers.
Speed spinning in and out:
And on these the rubberized sections are at least black. Fine. Fine for her clean hands and clean materials.
The working tips on these are declared on these to be Black Phosphate coated. Feels gritty. Be OK until worn off:
Me? No way. As soon as I go under-hood or under-chassis these now winter white hands go black craps engrained. That always gets grip transferred into any soft rubberized surfaces.
Old school me; I want can of brake clean, all hard plastic, quick cleanable.
The one translucent amber handled one JohanM show’s in his 3rd in-trunk picture; and all of mine, are actually an old 1930’s style acetate material. Cellulose acetate butyrate. The cellulose I am told, sourced from wood.
Anyhow. A smart choice in your screwdrivers man. Thanks for the reminder.
My wife choices in tools are screwdrivers; adjustable “Crescent” wrenches; needle nose and simple slip joint pliers; wire side clippers, and a small claw hammer. Past that she calls me.
Nice multi-adjustable Klipnex’s and even Vicegrip type tools frustrate her.
She does not even like Allen wrenches. (she has never used a set of Tee-handled spinner Allens)
For our 3rd? 4th? anniversary I bought her a string of natural pearls. She smiled, thanks. Wore them just once. And now have for 25 years jewelry box sat. Never worn again.
I could have bought her a lot of quality gardening tools for the cost of that one pretty necklace.
A nice card; and a nice specially gardening tool and she is pleased with me.
A pot of her always wonderful soups . . . one of her delightful perfect fruit pies; and I am pleased with her.
S.U.
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Man and stomach 
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You are right about the inlays, it is no fast work. We mostly use the cordless tools. At the end there is the electric part. War zone ends and piece enters. And even the screwdrivers are cordless now. Started with a joke from the salesman, me, NO we dont need that. He left it and within a month I ordered two more.
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Hi All
It may seem strange to highlight “gardening” tools, but never too early to plan ahead.
The wife watching season episodes of a Handmade in America series found this guy regionally local to us:
https://www.redpigtools.com
Then load up his “Long Handled Tools”.
His berry hook for black berry vines is just what I need to break my gasoline brush hog addiction. My birthday is in a week.
Lots of unique tools for raised beds in his Red Pig Originals section. The Wife’s birthday is in February.
Search through his site and see we still can make generational quality tools here in the USofA.
Steve Unruh
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Thank you Steve, very nice selection of tools and the quality looks great.
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Redpig looks pretty good. But you know there are always going to be things you want that they don’t sell, so you have to make them yourself.
Rindert
Long handled dust pan that fits in next to the refrigerator.
Cover for coffee grinder to keep little bits from flying out.
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We drink coffee the same way. It got complicated from pads to beans to a espresso machine and we were the slaves. This is simple and fast. Hot water comes from a Quooker. Tried to stop it for years but dont want to miss it now.
Not the grinder, my parents have it somewhere as a showpiece
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That actually looks marketable.
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Thanks. Can you advise me on how to do that?
Rindert
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I think it is a niche market, It would be more handy with a broom. The main advantage yours has is it is thin, so easier to store. The margins are pretty thin though.
if you look at like this one, it is mostly the same market and you could add campers. With the metal pan it can also be used in a shop setting. Your pan is small so it isn’t going to easily pick up the box of cereal a kid dumped on the floor, so you are also competing with the electric brooms.
Amazon, ebay or etsy may not be the worst choices to sign up as a 3rd party seller especially if you add a video short on how to use it and how neatly it stores away.
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