ahhh two days off, lovely. still only did 1/4 of the things planned but i had some fun playing with stuff..

this morning i picked up a fake hazet assistant that i found a few weeks ago. as i say, you always have to ask.  

 

a fair chunk of the day was spent pulling it apart, cleaning and then, yes you guessed it, putting it back together.

 

as you can see it was a little feral when i got it. it was too cheap to expect it to be cleaned.

 

 

plus the back end was a little worse for wear... "hey mate, is that 2 or 3 splines?"

 

 

about 3 hours later...

it looks a little like a freeway flyer doesn't it.

 

 

i know i need to patch the bottom of my shed wall...

btw this last picture is rather flattering, you can't see all of the little imperfections.

 

since the pic was taken i have cleaned the trays etc and put it back together.

 

not assembled till well after dark so no pics have been taken.

 

i haven't loaded my tools onto it yet.

 

just the shitty little stuff like the tray dividers and the rubber trim + the top tray matt to clean now. i'm not sure it i'll keep the book holder off the top tray, i think it might get in the way. (plus it is a little twisted and i can't get it to sit flat when folded down.)

 

i have to say that these things were built to a budget. not the best quality piece that i have ever seen. still it is an experement to see if this sort of tool box will suit my style of twiddling spanners. if it works well for me i'll continue the hunt for a real hazet one. ha, lets be honest, i'll keep looking anyway.

 

this will be such a change from the way i have used/stored tools in the past. i have always used .50cal ammo boxes. carried them in my car or stashed them in the shed, then hauled them out when i needed to use them, packed them up (well i've been getting a little lax now i have my shed) when done.

 

for all of the time i was daily driving vw's i always had to work outside so you couldn't leave any tools just lying around.

 

all of my spanners are in a tool roll (in order) and the majority of my sockets are in there case. i don't think that these will work well in the (fake) assistant but i like the order of it all. the spanners are all in size order and obviously the socket set is as well. it means i know if they were all there at the end of the day and i can go straight to the right one at the beginning of the next. though once i was using them they ended up sitting where i was working until i cleaned them (well most of the time) and put them back. the cleaning is as it really shat me to go and start something fresh and have filthy hands before you even toughed the car especialy when it was a minor thing and you were not dressed to get dirty (aka on the way out and the sh!tbox needs something adjusted AGAIN)(plus it feels like the right thing to do etc).

 

i must be getting so old in my outlook on life, the idea of a car that isn't very reliable just annoys me where as only my last car has ever been reliable.

 

plenty more to say but i'm back to work in the morning so need some sleep... oh to be independantly wealthy.