The black hole that swallows tools.

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(09-28-2015, 11:03 PM)Hawkeye Wrote: The ultimate black hole is having all of your tooling in boxes, randomly placed there by people who don't know the first thing about tools. You've seen a particular item somewhere, but an aging brain prevents you from remembering which box it was in. The 'new' shop doesn't have all the storage places finalized yet, so things won't be where I had them before. It sometimes takes days to find the item, usually when you're looking for something else.

Sounds like every time I've bought a new, larger tool box for keeping at work. The tool truck dealers don't give you very long to empty out your old box (ie. "trade in") so you have to transfer all your tools into the new tool box rather hurriedly. (After hours.)

The new drawers are different widths, lengths and depths usually, and arranged differently from your "old" tool box. So all your tools end up in different areas from where they used to be located and it now takes several minutes to find the exact tool you are after, whereas you previously knew where every single item was in the old tool box.

Service managers HATED to see new tool boxes coming into the shop, because they knew it was going to slow your production down for a month until you memorized where all your tools are again!