I finally graduated from from the open end wrenches in a 5 gallon plastic pail, to a couple drawers in a isolated tool box. The first picture is fractional wrenches, the second picture is metric wrenches with open end Whitworth wrenches in the orange bag.
Even as a young lad, I never like open end wrenches, preferring combination or boxend wrenches, so open end wrenches are like second (maybe third) class citizens or a necessary evil in the tool box. For some reason, they just seem to multiply in the shop.
I. Also have a couple of drawers, with butchered wrenches, handle or head bent to specific angle, for a certain job or cut apart and rewelded back together, to form the necessary tool for the job, like a motor mount wrench for a Ford Taurus.
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