CHECKING THE TOOLS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 544, 30 May 1933, Page 2

CHECKING THE TOOLS

Few situations in which a motorist can find himself are less enviahle than the discovery, when his car ha's broken down on some remote road, that the tools essential to repairs have heen left at home. The worlcshop facilities of most car owriers are modest, and it is seldom that there is any duplication'in the workshop of the tools carried in the car's kit. ' Hence, when adjustments are being made at home, the tools1' from the kit of the car are generally used, and, unless great care is taken to check over the tools as they are returned to the tool-box, it is an easy matter to leave some of them on the garage bench. This danger can be avoided, and the condition of the tools preserved, if they are carried in the car in wrappers made of canvas or similar fabric, with tapes or webbing sewn to it to provide a place for every tool. Then, when each'wrapper is put away, it is possible to see at a glance if anything has heen omitted by the empty place in the wrapper. Such wrappers keep the tools clean, the^ are easily found if a distinguisKing mark is placed on each wrapper, and the fabric prevents the direct contact of tools which is responsible for .so much rattle in the tool-box on rough roads if the tools are jumhled together'in the bottom of the bbx.