Apartment dweller socket/tool set.

[Sequoiasoon]

So I am in Virginia with my son. Building all the furniture things and bed frames etc.

He has that extra Craftsman set I pictured with everything that was in it. I went to HF and got a 12" tool bag. In it I put some Quinn things like 10/1 multi screw driver, a longer regular phillips and slotted and a Quinn pliers set. The adjustable sliding pliers suck. Where it engages in the crescent shape it is loose and as soon as you open some after adjusting it slides out of that. They will go back. We were at Lowe's so I got a true Crescent brand one and also an Irwin with the push button adjust, much better.

He's on 3rd floor with a balcony. That hammer came in very handy pounding about 30 nails in that were sticking up just enough to catch and stub/cut your foot. I guess air gun when they built it just wasn't quite doing it all the time. Many nails and screws resting between the slats and a part of broken bottle with enough up to slice or puncture that would really suck. Not sure if people below were home but we did the pounding of nails midday when parking lot was a lot more empty.

This was we pulled out from between boards on the 8'x15' balcony.

 

[ChrisMU]

When I moved out on my own in 2004 (not counting college), it was around my birthday and my folks asked me what I wanted. I told them “a good socket set.” They got me a 199 piece Craftsman set with the four plastic drawers. This was in addition to my tool box that contained screwdrivers, a few different pliers, a tape measure, a small set of combination wrenches, a torque wrench for tire rotations, and a couple oil filter wrenches. Those hand tools got me by for about 10 years, when I finally added a deep socket set to my collection. I realize that Craftsman tools aren’t the same quality as 20 years ago, so a similarly sized set elsewhere should be just as good.

 

[Donald]

I went through this to come up with one for my boat. I ended up buying a DeWalt briefcase style empty toolbox and bought some Craftsman combo wrench sets (metric & SAE) my HF socket set I had in a tote and some screwdrivers and other duplicate tools

I am not a fan of 3/8". I mainly have 1/4" and 1/2". And I like 6 PT.

I need to add some nut drivers.

I try not to bring my good tools (Wright & Craftsman) from my main tool chest to the boat.