Things for your machinist's tool box....

[HMF]

Hey folks,

Someone gives you a nice Kennedy #520 toolbox in good, useable shape!

What do you stock inside for your home shop? I will start the list with some suggestions, and you guys add onto it!

Best,


Nelson


--------------------------------- THINGS IN MY TOOLBOX -----------------------------------------


1" & 2" mics
6" (or 8") Dial or digital calipers
6" scale
Center gage
Telescopic gage set
Small hole gage set
Test indicator (.0005)
1" Dial indicator
Magnetic base
thread gauge, for 'V' threads & acme
set of hermorphrodite calipers
adjustable parallels and a carriage stop to cut exact distances between shoulders on a shaft
Thread wires
Inside mic
12" scale
small straightedge
inside, outside and straight dividers
pair of tweezers
small mirror
magnifying glass
DuMont Swiss pattern 5 or 5A needle point tweezers
ink markers to inkup your work for marking
scratch awl to mark your layout
de-burring tools to cleanup the ends
band aids
Machinist square
Spare allen wrenches
Indicol
depth mic set
round thread wires
Machinery's handbook

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[e44sp]

I always use some kind of bluing

 

[Amigo]

If a guy wants to be a machinist he only needs two (2) books one is sworn on the other is sworn by, Machinist Handbook.