GL: Tools

[Wade Ehlen]

Maybe the best way to go is to seriously cultivate a friendship with a mechanic who enjoys boating but doesn't have one of his own.  Invite him (and his toolbox) on every trip/cruise you take.  He won't be able to make all of them, but on those he does he'll feel the need to "tinker and fix" just about anything on board.  Just don't try charging him for fuel !

Wade Ehlen
Friend of many shop/tech teachers
Albin 36 Miss Happ
New Bern NC  


--- On Sat, 6/28/08, Ron Rogers <rcrogers6 at kennett.net> wrote:

> From: Ron Rogers <rcrogers6 at kennett.net>
> Subject: Re: GL: Tools
> To: StWillett at aol.com, "Great Loop" <great-loop at lists.samurai.com>
> Date: Saturday, June 28, 2008, 3:01 PM
> That's what I was saying, but, there is another truth:
> 
> 6. A good, professional mechanic often comes down the dock
> with maybe 3 
> tools in his pocket or the top tray from a toolbox - max.
> They also carry a 
> little can and/or a plastic gallon jug with the top cut off
> at a slant 
> preserving the handle. They rarely go back for anything
> else. It's 
> embarrassing.
> 
> They don't have many tools to forget. Oh, and a
> flashlight. As I get older 
> (which beats the alternative) I require more and more light
> on the task. 
> Getting the right light is worth doing some research and
> taking advice. 
> Fluorescent lights give off less heat and are more energy
> efficient. I also 
> use a headlamp.
> Ron Rogers
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <StWillett at aol.com>
> 
> |I have a large tool box with a large set of
> "good" tools and specialty
> | tools. Probably 90% of the time I wind up using a cheap
> kit I bought  at 
> WMT. It
> | has sockets and wrenches (inch and metric) up to
> 3/4" and lots  of 
> miscellaneous
> | items, about 100 pcs in all. Each item fits into a molded
> space  in the 
> top
> | and bottom of the kit so I can spot a piece missing
> before  putting the 
> set
> | away. Convenient but not great quality. 
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