Showing posts with label tool kit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tool kit. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Isn't this the coolest rolling toolbox / racetrack seating you'll ever want?

Just check out those screens! The top of the counter is for laptops etc... the seat has a flip up back rest
And best of all... it raises up on a scissor lift!


For other cool rolling toolboxes at the track: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/10/tool-boxes-among-trailers-in-paddock-at.html

but the most amazing tool box you'll ever see: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV88KUQQkU4AZ7ilGyqm-vF6S5CTn5OwC3OxAKuBbWvBpJlVF3YAC0fTrh6oNeQ8ftQDSIxxuFBWXPMnQW5y3epCiuNhlsFEBc2J7MOx47UYtgUekyT-POOyR-fFzB4ZKC7zRJ5Q3p_DiZ/s1600-h/Studley_1280x1024.jpg from 100 years ago when a piano master crafter decided to put all his tools in a custom toolbox that he made from spare bits of piano materials like ivory, ebony, rosewood, mahogany and mother of pearl - refining it over the course of a 30-year career. It was in the Smithsonian for a while

Monday, November 2, 2009

"The Case of the Mystery Socket Set" solved! what is a WSW-100, WSW-101 etc mean on a set of Snap on sockets? I found out


WSW-105 USA 4 Snap on 9/16 W
WSW-104 USA 3 Snap on 1/2 W
WSW-103 USA 2 Snap on 7/16W
WSW-102 USA 9 Snap on 7/16BS
WSW-102 USA 7 Snap on 3/8W
WSW-101 USA 0 Snap on 3/8BS
WSW-101 USA 2 Snap on 5/16W
WSW-100 USA 3 Snap on 1/4W
WSW-100 USA 6 Snap on 1/4W

So, what do these have to do with what? Well, I listed them all because there isn't much info on the internet when I searched up each one of these.

They are used on old Jags, these tools with the strange and incomprehensible markings were once common enough that even Sears Roebuck and Snap-On carried them.

Before the mid-nineteenth century, nuts and bolts were individually hand-made, specifically matched and were generally not interchangeable. Serious efforts to standardize screw threads began in 1841, when Sir Joseph Whitworth proposed a standard screw thread form based on a constant thread angle of 55 degrees. This became known as the Whitworth thread, and gained acceptance in British industry. Outside diameters of bolts began at 1/8" and increased by fractional inch increments, with a whole number of threads per inch specified for each diameter.

In 1965 the British Standards Institution approved a policy statement urging British industry to regard BSW, BSF, and BA as obsolescent, to be gradually replaced by International Standards Organization (ISO) metric thread

I learned a lot from http://www.jag-lovers.org/xk-lovers/library/whitworth_system.html

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Tool boxes among the trailers in the paddock at Speedfest

When shopping for or making your next tool box, here are a variety that the pros use. Seeing that touring race car teams use them, I bet they are set up for the most efficient way to get things done.
Wow. Impressive










2nd coolest, portable, secure, and has a vise




Most unusual and innovative






Oldest