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Ever since I wound up with Dad's tools, I've been trying to figure out how best to order the endless sockets I now have kicking about:
Organized, it may be (imperial at left, metric right, and some Whitworth in another drawer), but I'm not sure the organization here makes sense.
Should sockets of different drive sizes be mixed if the head size is the same? Particularly when they are Allen sockets? I've relegated one of the imperial socket rows (second from left) to nothing but 3/8" drive sockets, but each size includes standard, deep, and articulated sockets if I have them on hand - and some of those are duplicates too (though I have nothing against that - if there's one thing I've found, you always need two 7/16, 1/2" and 9/16" sockets on hand more often than not). Efficient or not?
On the other hand, should I organize by quality? The great majority of what I have here are pre-China Craftsman sockets with a smattering of SnapOn and Proto, but Sears' beer-budget Companion's sockets (curiously enough, of excellent quality - must have been a one-off supplier) make up the second largest number of sockets. Fact is, nothing here is bad enough to consider worthy of its own "trash-tools-for-trash-jobs" drawer, which makes me question why I'd bother categorizing them by quality to begin with.
That said, what have you fellows found to be the most efficient manner of socket organization? I'm open to suggestions.
-Kurt
Organized, it may be (imperial at left, metric right, and some Whitworth in another drawer), but I'm not sure the organization here makes sense.
Should sockets of different drive sizes be mixed if the head size is the same? Particularly when they are Allen sockets? I've relegated one of the imperial socket rows (second from left) to nothing but 3/8" drive sockets, but each size includes standard, deep, and articulated sockets if I have them on hand - and some of those are duplicates too (though I have nothing against that - if there's one thing I've found, you always need two 7/16, 1/2" and 9/16" sockets on hand more often than not). Efficient or not?
On the other hand, should I organize by quality? The great majority of what I have here are pre-China Craftsman sockets with a smattering of SnapOn and Proto, but Sears' beer-budget Companion's sockets (curiously enough, of excellent quality - must have been a one-off supplier) make up the second largest number of sockets. Fact is, nothing here is bad enough to consider worthy of its own "trash-tools-for-trash-jobs" drawer, which makes me question why I'd bother categorizing them by quality to begin with.
That said, what have you fellows found to be the most efficient manner of socket organization? I'm open to suggestions.
-Kurt
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