SadSadSatellite

Side note for your analysis paralysis, I’ve used a few box sets and can give opinions. Milwaukee is too expensive and the connection system is irritating and overcomplicated. Klein and stanley are both a lot more flimsey than the major sets, but I still haven’t broken my stably box after several years of abuse. It just bends a lot. The FLEX toolboxes seem like the highest quality of the bunch, but I have no idea how much they cost. If I recall correctly, they’re also slightly smaller than the toughbuilt and Milwaukee, in a way that makes them seem more convient.

I looked at some clones by Keter, but the quality seemed like a major step down for not much of a discount.

I got a killer deal on toughbuilt boxes when Lowes first got the stacktech. They’re great. Heavy as hell, but I’m big so I don’t mind it. With how expensive they are, I’m not sure i would get them again if they were normal price, though. I also lucked out when the toughbuilt modular belts were being clearances out through menards a year or two ago. Got way more pouches than I’ll ever need for 3 or 4 bucks each. Again, at the regular price, I’d stick to my leather apron belt. 50 bucks for a tool pouch? Get fucked.

Menards just recently got stacktech stuff in, but it’s regular price at the moment. Anything that ends up there will eventually be on clearance though, so if you live near one, keep an eye out.

I use a modular toolbox setup. Each chest or box has everything I need for one task. One box for electrical work, one for plumbing, one for painting, welding, simple repairs, power tools, etc. I also have a modular tool belt, and the most used tools in pouches on the outside of the box. On top of that, I have a small drawer with my inside tools in the house, screwdriver set, multitool, tape measure, utility knife, markers and hammer.

It helps immensly

Some of the projects have to be isolated, since they’re so drastically different. I don’t totally understand it, but I can’t woodwork and homelab in the same evening. It’s like they use such incompatible parts of my brain they have to be separated by several hours, or I’ll just stare at the terminal or workbench and not know what to do.

I’ve been trying to be for 20 years. You’re the second person in that time to call me that, and you made my day for it.

Hand tool woodworking, refurbishing antique tools and furniture, building a home lab server, learning Ubuntu/Debian/arch, welding/soldering eyeglasses, 3d printing, milling rifles, lockpicking, cooking Indian, Japanese, and Cajun food, building custom furniture, fixing clocks, rebuilding engines, removing rust and japanning metal, playing piano, identifying specific architecture, being more supportive to friends, building a community action group, sharpening blades, trusting others to make decisions, sign language, and raising a daughter to be an assertive mastermind.

You’re lucky your momma died giving birth to you. If she saw you now, she would’ve died of shame.

Dionysus in hades. Dude amps me up so well I pick him over boons I like better.