Excessive packaging or useless junk?

[OPJ]

DeWalt do make some sturdy cases, as someone mentioned earlier. Although, I tend to favour Makita and Bosch for most of my kit. I do like the Bosch cases as well - they tend to give you somewhere to store the manual so you don't have the problem of leaving it behind.

 

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't be without the cases - I can't understand why everyone doesn't use them.

Dan

I suspect most members are like me in that they don't take the tools out of the workshop to a site (all my woodwork is in the workshop), and have a very limited space to work in such as a single garage in my case, or a shed in many others, and large boxes just take up too much room

 

[whoops!]

I work on site and those tools that dont get put back in their boxes get borrowed and abused by other guys, tools are constantly moved from room to room, and if they are not in their boxes end up lying in piles of crap and plaster/cement, cables messed up and totally entwined,etc, etc.
For every one of the tools that I have onsite I also have a corresponding amount of bits, chucks, spanners, sanding discs, and all the other bits that go with it.
Moulded boxes are a P.I.T.A, coz it takes an age to coil the cable etc and then to get it all to fit in the shape, much better for a big box as you can get everything in with no faffing around, especially when you have those bloody huge 110vsockets.

At the end of the day you then have to get everything in to the back of the truck. If you dont keep your tools and bits together , things get lost or grow legs and end up in someone else's cab. People paint their tools and bits and sometimes even their boxes, then there's no mistake.

It depends as to wether you work in a workshop or are on site. If there are other chippies reading this they will know exactly what I'm talking about. Boxes that are a good size that have strong hinges and can hold accessories are a god send!!!

Decklan

 

[BradNaylor]

I suspect most members are like me in that they don't take the tools out of the workshop to a site (all my woodwork is in the workshop)

Very true, Tony.

I also suspect however, that most purchasers of professional quality power tools are tradesmen who have to lug them around from job to job. While some blokes don't bother with the cases, in my experience most pros use them to the point of being obsessive-compulsive about it!

So, in my jigsaw case I carry a dozen or so packs of spare blades. In each of my 3 cordless drill cases I have a selection of drills, driver bits, and bit holders. In my angle grinder case I carry spare discs and spanner. It goes on and on.

One thing you learn very quickly when your livlihood depends on it is that efficiency is essential - having everything you need when and where you need it is paramount. Good quality cases for power tools help in this no end.

The top manufacturers are quite right to provide decent cases. Most tradesmen - their main market - wouldn't buy a power tool that didn't come with one.

How would you use a Fein Multimaster if it didn't come in a case?

 

[Danny]

As Travis put up a picture of his nice organised shelves, whist I was potting about with my compressor I took a picture of the main reason I love kit boxes.

Yup, Got no where to put stuff.. Originally those benches were set up for my electronics, most of which I have moved to a bench in my bedroom. I was planning on redoing the whole lot but recently found out that we may be moving house... So haven't bothered. They look thrown in there but I can assure you that they were very carefully placed. :wink:

 

[brianhabby]

Can't see your picture Danny

 

[OPJ]

Moulded boxes are a P.I.T.A, coz it takes an age to coil the cable etc and then to get it all to fit in the shape, much better for a big box as you can get everything in with no faffing around, especially when you have those bloody huge 110vsockets.

That's a good point. I've had my 110v Makita 3612CX router for nearly four-years now and, since I first took it out to have a play with it, I haven't once been able to figure out how the side fence fits back inside with the rest of the kit! No, it still won't fit when it's in two halves! :roll: