I am actually all good today, seems like I might end up with some ulcers from it, but that will be the worst of it.
Already have ulcers forming not where I did all the damage, but where my other teeth scraped up my lip on the injury.
For those wondering,
Gyro LC , & @ness , yes I was working on a machine, but that didn't relate to the injury.
The customer had recently relocated the machine to a new factory.
Since it was moved, it wasn't running right.
I went there and found when they had strapped it onto the truck they had bent/mis-aligned some parts.
Was trying to undo the bolts and used the customer's cheap tool, because I hadn't packed all my tools and the car was a 10m walk from where I was:
As a rule of thumb... Or as a rule of "dumb: I don't like shifting spanners, adjustable wrenches, whatever you want to call them.
In my basic tool kit I have a couple of higher quality ones:
Where even the good ones are not great, if you set them too tight they won't slip off the bolt and too loose, they round-off the points of the nuts/bolts, but it isn't always practical to have a full spanner set on you.
With this injury I was using the cheap Shifting spanners that all customers seem to have lying around, the super-cheap discount store variety.
The issue with these is you can litterally feel the slop in the adjusting mechanism.
In my case, I was trying to loosen a bolt that got jammed up in the move and the I was yanking on it and it slipped off the bolt scoring me fair in the face.
My job is weird, I mostly sell machines to make income, but the value to the customer is that I can sort out most of their issues even on machines I don't sell.
If I was a full-time service tech I would have set toolkits ready to go, but this is my dilemma.
I have a huge range of awesome tools, but there are so many different use cases:
Basic kit for diagnostic and breakdown work
Slightly more detailed kit for doing a repair job onsite
Tool setup for installing a machine where I have to take my toolbox on the plane
Big sitebox for the big jobs.
Up until now I move the tools between the cases, but it means I am not ready to just call past someone's place and do a basic job.
I probably need to change my mindset and have three built out tool kits so that I am not constantly hunting for things when there is an urgent job.
For anyone interested, this is one of my old setups, I think it was a programming and training job:
This is my big set (not full):
Since I have had my business there has been one whole site box stolen off one of my sites.
I had it insured for $5k but the problem with these is you keep adding tools and then before you know it, there was $7k worth in the tool box.
I have started putting those Galaxy smart tags in everything now... Mostly, because I lost my car a couple of times recently... Another story.
Does anyone here like tools? I think we should have a tool thread with the Tim the tool man Taylor style grunting...