Not a bad idea. I gotta say though I can't remember the last time I used vise grips.

Yep. That little orange light slides into a head band to convert it to a headlamp. So I have that, a flashlight, and the klein task light. Yeah i can't find a great place to put a hammer. I might need to look for a smaller one. Pry bar is a good idea, and maybe some kind of putty knife or scraper. I do have gloves just rarely use them. And yes that is a center punch.
Thanks!

Definitely a set of vise grips. Of all my plier type tools, those get the most work.

Definitely need a claw hammer. Maybe even a small sledge (1lb or 3lb)

I also carry a rubber mallet for when needing to bang on things that I don't want to scuff.

man this is a good idea. which model bag is that?

Now that I have a second home in Houston, I'm always doing little projects and grabbing tools one by hand and throwing them in my Tahoe, only to find out I forgot this thing or that thing....I bought a toolbox thinking I'd do something similiar and over time it's turned into my 'electrical' tool box with a bunch of electrical stuff since some of my buddies are always asking me to wire up stuff for them since they don't want to mess with electricity.

I think I found a new little project to spend money on soon LOL! good post and pictures!

Also, let me know how you like that little milwaukee fastback utility knife. I've never seen that one before.

Love the Milwaukee fast back knives. This is the Veto Pro Pac SB-LD.

Thats does about everything

Maybe a skinny phillips and standard ( for towel bars type screws

Also they make a diagonal plier at lowes I assume they still have it
For 50-60 dollars that gives you leverage to cut nails

Also a pair of dikes if you plan on cutting big nails or tying electrical wire together in the box

Trying to minimize number of items, focus more on multifunction things. I do have some cutters and those strippers have a cutter and the nose is thicker somewhat like a lineman. For those small screws I do have that little precision multidriver so I think I'm covered between that and the Wera multi.

Thanks!

Looks good. I have one for electrical and one for plumbing. Also, I don't see any electrical tape.

YZ250 said:

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Looks good. I have one for electrical and one for plumbing. Also, I don't see any electrical tape.

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I have a loop attached to the bag with electrical, duct, and plumbers tape.

If you're like me, you'll need n+1 tape measures and 10mm sockets, where n=the number of tape measures or sockets you possess. Same goes for box cutters.

Sharpies

Pencils


One thing I used to have in my bag for electrical work was an 8 or 12V (maybe lower) 'drill' that was for finishing plate screws and other trim stuff. We had a deWalt drill for larger stuff, but having a small screwdriver made doing 50-100 finishing plates nicer at the end of the day.

But looks good/similar to what I had.

~egon

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You still need a metric tool set. Here's one:

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I have standard and metric sockets in the common sizes, plus standard and metric allen key bits. I do have the trusty ridgid pipe wrench, but don't need it that often and it's heavy so I purposely left it out. If I know I'll need it I'll throw it in.

That seems like a lot of stuff for a typical off the cuff around the house fix.

What are you talking about, hanging pictures, maybe messing with a receptacle/light switch? Or an actual project? You don't even have a hammer.
I keep my electrical stuff together, but you don't need all that if you're not doing electrical.

I think you need a bigger bit set - torx, metric and std hex, square (2-3 sizes), etc

Also, I would probably ditch the side cutters and replace with some engineer pliers that can do more than 1 job (including as a side cutter).

wire strippers? Didn't see a pair, but might have missed it.

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That seems like a lot of stuff for a typical off the cuff around the house fix.

What are you talking about, hanging pictures, maybe messing with a receptacle/light switch? Or an actual project? You don't even have a hammer.
I keep my electrical stuff together, but you don't need all that if you're not doing electrical.

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The point is to be able to just grab the bag and have everything I need to do the majority of stuff that I do. Not have to piece meal each job out and make multiple trips in and out. If I need bigger tools that's fine I can put them in another bag, but my hope is to just grab the bag and have almost everything I need. My parents are getting up in age so I have to go there and fix stuff fairly regularly and my dad was never very handy so doesn't really have tools I can use. So I'd rather just show up on site with a plethora of options as I don't always know what else is going on that I might need to fix. But yeah, minor electrical, minor plumbing, door knob replacements, level doors, replacing toilets and fixtures, sprinkler repairs, gate/fence repairs. Stuff like that. It is a lot of stuff for sure, but I don't have a separate bag for electrical, seperate bag for plumbing, etc. I've done a few jobs out of it so far and it's working well. I'll add stuff and take away as needed, was just looking for additional input from some of y'all.

Hammer was addressed earlier. If I need one I'll throw it in, but there's not a great place to just store one on this bag. And anything can be a hammer if I really need to be. Lol.

ahh I missed that you're talking about grabbing it to go to parents house, that makes more sense, gotta be ready for anything.

I love the idea of a tool go-bag. I've started bring a few basics every time I visit my mom because here's inevitably always something to fix. My dad accumulated a stores worth of tools, but good look finding what you need in a timely manner in their hoarder garage.

Years ago someone here recommended Vampliers. You may have something else that will work that I'm not seeing. I don't own anything better at removing a stripped screw.

Can't argue with anything that's in the bag. My bag has lineman pliers in it as well as some big ass zip ties. And a tungsten carbide drill bit for things that don't want to cooperate. Also a big crescent wrench.

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Can't argue with anything that's in the bag. My bag has lineman pliers in it as well as some big ass zip ties. And a tungsten carbide drill bit for things that don't want to cooperate. Also a big crescent wrench.

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I removed my big adjustable crescent wrench in favor of the pliers wrench. Haven't needed a crescent wrench since I started using those.