most facile way to move heavy toolcase up/down stairs?

[Alan Horowitz]

ET onboard a ship. Have decided after time to have own tools. Got
them packed into one of those larger wheel-around, pull-the-handle-out
check-in hard-shell Samsonites. Ends up being a bit heavy, cause of
tool junkie genetic coding.

Works great..... except when have to go up or down ladderwells
("stairs", to you land pukes)

Better approach?

 

[nauga]

Works great..... except when have to go up or down ladderwells
("stairs", to you land pukes)

Better approach?

A complete set on each deck?

Dave 'never enough' Hyde
[email protected]

 

[Bruce Chang]

ET onboard a ship. Have decided after time to have own tools. Got
them packed into one of those larger wheel-around, pull-the-handle-out
check-in hard-shell Samsonites. Ends up being a bit heavy, cause of
tool junkie genetic coding.

Works great..... except when have to go up or down ladderwells
("stairs", to you land pukes)

Better approach?

Use the escalator? =oD

Maybe separate your tools into two groups and get two Samsonites. I have a
ton of tools at home but when I go to work on a friend's car, I can leave
most all my tools at home and bring application specific tools that are
light enough to carry in a backpack. I can't even imagine how long it'd
take me to get all my tools from my rollaway into my car, much less just
trying to lift my top chest without removing any tools from it first. =o)

Good luck,

-Bruce

 

[Richard Lamb]

A complete set on each deck?

Dave 'never enough' Hyde
[email protected]

Nah, go find a snipe and get your own block and tackle rig.


Richard

 

[jakdedert]

ET onboard a ship. Have decided after time to have own tools. Got
them packed into one of those larger wheel-around, pull-the-handle-out
check-in hard-shell Samsonites. Ends up being a bit heavy, cause of
tool junkie genetic coding.

Works great..... except when have to go up or down ladderwells
("stairs", to you land pukes)

Better approach?

Pukes? I guess you're applying that term 'affectionately' since we're the
ones you're asking for help. I can't add much to the answers already given,
unless there is something like a lift or elevator on board. Some of those
cases are modular, with a series of stacking boxes. Perhaps, like others
have suggested, you could divide your stash into several piles, and only
move the ones you actually expect to need at a time.

jak

 

[Dick C]

Alan Horowitz wrote in rec.autos.tech

ET onboard a ship. Have decided after time to have own tools. Got
them packed into one of those larger wheel-around, pull-the-handle-out
check-in hard-shell Samsonites. Ends up being a bit heavy, cause of
tool junkie genetic coding.

What do you need that many tools for anyway? Kind of like the golfer who
takes a bag full of golf clubs to play a par 3 course. Take only what
you need in a smaller case, and leave the rest in your workshop.
Seriously, I have worked in industrial plants where I had a over a hundred
pounds of tools in the shop, but usually carried a collection of tools that
would allow me to do 90 percent of all jobs I had to do. A lot of the jobs
I would just grab a pair of longnose pliers, a couple of screwdrivers, and
my meter.

--
Dick #1349
Damn it . . . Don't you dare ask God to help me.
To her housekeeper, who had begun to pray aloud.
~~ Joan Crawford, actress, d. May 10, 1977
Home Page: dickcr.iwarp.com
email: [email protected]

 

[Sparks]

ET onboard a ship. Have decided after time to have own tools. Got
them packed into one of those larger wheel-around, pull-the-handle-out
check-in hard-shell Samsonites. Ends up being a bit heavy, cause of
tool junkie genetic coding.

Works great..... except when have to go up or down ladderwells
("stairs", to you land pukes)

Better approach?

If you need all those tools for a job you probably don't know what are you
doing anyway!

Best regards,
Radio Electronics Officer

 

[Harry K]

A complete set on each deck?

Dave 'never enough' Hyde
[email protected]

Only go up when in the southern hemisphere and down in the northern?

Harry K

 

[Stu & Kathy Fields]

Quickly move into management. Pencils and cell phone are light.

S. Fields

 

[Paul Anton]

Leave it unlocked--it will get lighter real quick

 

[Andrew VK3BFA]

ET onboard a ship. Have decided after time to have own tools. Got
them packed into one of those larger wheel-around, pull-the-handle-out
check-in hard-shell Samsonites. Ends up being a bit heavy, cause of
tool junkie genetic coding.

Works great..... except when have to go up or down ladderwells
("stairs", to you land pukes)

Better approach?

Do what everyone else with more intelligence than a housebrick does -
clean out your toolbox and only cart around what you need. If you
havent figured out that you only need a small box for 90% of jobs,
then you havent been doing this all that long.....
73 de VK3BFA Andrew

 

[Joe McElvenney]

Swiss Army Knife ?

 

[Alex Rodriguez]

ET onboard a ship. Have decided after time to have own tools. Got
them packed into one of those larger wheel-around, pull-the-handle-out
check-in hard-shell Samsonites. Ends up being a bit heavy, cause of
tool junkie genetic coding.

Works great..... except when have to go up or down ladderwells
("stairs", to you land pukes)

Better approach?

Two cases and make two trips.

 

[Ernest Christley]

Two cases and make two trips.

COME-ON, guys! He came to rec.AVIATION.HOMEBUILT asking this question.
What he wants to know is:

A) whether to use a laminar or turbulent airfoil, and what's the proper
wing loading for a toolbox?
B) would a certified or auto-conversion engine be more appropriate?
C) composite, aluminum, or tube and rag?
E) electric or manual trim?
F) circuit breakers or fuses?

Now. Could somebody help the guy out, please!

8*)

 

[Alan Horowitz]

havent figured out that you only need a small box for 90% of jobs,


You _can_ do 90% of what is to be done with what I carry on my
belt.


With my little toolbag, you can do 99%.


But just because one can skin and tan a deer with teeth alone, doesn't
mean one _enjoys_ doing it that way......

 

[Z]

ET onboard a ship. Have decided after time to have own tools. Got
them packed into one of those larger wheel-around, pull-the-handle-out
check-in hard-shell Samsonites. Ends up being a bit heavy, cause of
tool junkie genetic coding.

Works great..... except when have to go up or down ladderwells
("stairs", to you land pukes)

Better approach?

Get the bosun to carry your tools or help you carry your tools.
Webbing strop and ships winch.
Check out each job before starting and take less tools in a smaller
case.
Keep your own tools at home if the shipping company supplies tools and
use your own tools for homers when off tour.
See about your addiction.


I managed a whole week once with a pinching driver!
I am a professed tool junkie as well but my van has no organisation aids
in it so there are tools and materials stuffed in the back of it so much
I can't find the tools I need.

 

[Andrew VK3BFA]

You _can_ do 90% of what is to be done with what I carry on my
belt.


With my little toolbag, you can do 99%.


But just because one can skin and tan a deer with teeth alone, doesn't
mean one _enjoys_ doing it that way......

Point taken - and if you were going into the woods to catch a deer,
(or a bunny rabbit) you would at least have a skinning knife with you
and then take the skin back home to tan - the same with repairs, I
have a swiss army knife on my belt and I can do a huge number of
repairs with that. And if you are on a "boat" then you wont have to
drive 15 miles to get the right tool, would you. So, if you want to
lug a 20Kg toolbox up and down "stairs" then feel free to do so - dont
expect to do it any other way, because there isnt one.

Oh, and BTW - on a "boat" you are unlikely to find that a new piece of
equipment needing an unusual tool has miraculously(sp) appeared
overnight - wish I had it that easy!.....

Andrew

 

[jakdedert]

[email protected] (Alan Horowitz) wrote in message

Point taken - and if you were going into the woods to catch a deer,
(or a bunny rabbit) you would at least have a skinning knife with you
and then take the skin back home to tan - the same with repairs, I
have a swiss army knife on my belt and I can do a huge number of
repairs with that. And if you are on a "boat" then you wont have to
drive 15 miles to get the right tool, would you. So, if you want to
lug a 20Kg toolbox up and down "stairs" then feel free to do so - dont
expect to do it any other way, because there isnt one.

Perhaps the OP could spend more time at the gym? ;-)

I, too, find that my little Gerber Tool solves well over 90% of my
'occasional' tool needs. While there's hardly a tool on it that I would use
for a particular job if I had the 'real' tool at hand; the utility of having
all those tools on my belt--all of the time--is liberating.

jak

 

[Rich S.]

I, too, find that my little Gerber Tool solves well over 90% of my
'occasional' tool needs. While there's hardly a tool on it that I would use
for a particular job if I had the 'real' tool at hand; the utility of having
all those tools on my belt--all of the time--is liberating.

I wonder how many of those the TSA owns, now?

Rich "Honest, I forgot it was on my belt" S.

 

[Andrew VK3BFA]

Get the bosun to carry your tools or help you carry your tools.
Webbing strop and ships winch.
Check out each job before starting and take less tools in a smaller
case.
Keep your own tools at home if the shipping company supplies tools and
use your own tools for homers when off tour.
See about your addiction.


I managed a whole week once with a pinching driver!
I am a professed tool junkie as well but my van has no organisation aids
in it so there are tools and materials stuffed in the back of it so much
I can't find the tools I need.

Yep, I am a tool junkie as well - but I only carry the bare minimum in
the van, paranoid about them being stolen, and commercial insurance is
just toooo much. Lets face it, he who dies with the most tools/test
equipment wins......(not sure what you win, I just know that you do).

BTW - whats the most obscure specialised tool you own - you know,
something that was acquired in a moment of madness and never got used
- (this specifically exludes power tools, they are in a special
"sacred objects" category)...and where can I get a micro lathe cheap
for turning up capacitor shafts....

de VK3BFA Andrew