most facile way to move heavy toolcase up/down stairs?

A complete set on each deck? :-)

Dave 'never enough' Hyde snipped-for-privacy@brick.net

Use the escalator? =oD

Maybe separate your tools into two groups and get two Samsonites. I have a ton of tools at home but when I go to work on a friend's car, I can leave most all my tools at home and bring application specific tools that are light enough to carry in a backpack. I can't even imagine how long it'd take me to get all my tools from my rollaway into my car, much less just trying to lift my top chest without removing any tools from it first. =o)

Good luck,

-Bruce

Nah, go find a snipe and get your own block and tackle rig.

Richard

Pukes? I guess you're applying that term 'affectionately' since we're the ones you're asking for help. I can't add much to the answers already given, unless there is something like a lift or elevator on board. Some of those cases are modular, with a series of stacking boxes. Perhaps, like others have suggested, you could divide your stash into several piles, and only move the ones you actually expect to need at a time.

jak

Alan Horowitz wrote in rec.autos.tech

What do you need that many tools for anyway? Kind of like the golfer who takes a bag full of golf clubs to play a par 3 course. Take only what you need in a smaller case, and leave the rest in your workshop. Seriously, I have worked in industrial plants where I had a over a hundred pounds of tools in the shop, but usually carried a collection of tools that would allow me to do 90 percent of all jobs I had to do. A lot of the jobs I would just grab a pair of longnose pliers, a couple of screwdrivers, and my meter.

If you need all those tools for a job you probably don't know what are you doing anyway!

Best regards, Radio Electronics Officer

Only go up when in the southern hemisphere and down in the northern? ;)

Harry K

Quickly move into management. Pencils and cell phone are light.

Leave it unlocked--it will get lighter real quick

Do what everyone else with more intelligence than a housebrick does - clean out your toolbox and only cart around what you need. If you havent figured out that you only need a small box for 90% of jobs, then you havent been doing this all that long.....

Swiss Army Knife ?

Two cases and make two trips.

--------- Alex

COME-ON, guys! He came to rec.AVIATION.HOMEBUILT asking this question. What he wants to know is:

A) whether to use a laminar or turbulent airfoil, and what's the proper wing loading for a toolbox? B) would a certified or auto-conversion engine be more appropriate? C) composite, aluminum, or tube and rag? E) electric or manual trim? F) circuit breakers or fuses?

Now. Could somebody help the guy out, please!

You _can_ do 90% of what is to be done with what I carry on my belt.

With my little toolbag, you can do 99%.

But just because one can skin and tan a deer with teeth alone, doesn't mean one _enjoys_ doing it that way......

In article , Alan Horowitz writes

Get the bosun to carry your tools or help you carry your tools. Webbing strop and ships winch. Check out each job before starting and take less tools in a smaller case. Keep your own tools at home if the shipping company supplies tools and use your own tools for homers when off tour. See about your addiction. :-)

I managed a whole week once with a pinching driver! I am a professed tool junkie as well but my van has no organisation aids in it so there are tools and materials stuffed in the back of it so much I can't find the tools I need.

Point taken - and if you were going into the woods to catch a deer, (or a bunny rabbit) you would at least have a skinning knife with you and then take the skin back home to tan - the same with repairs, I have a swiss army knife on my belt and I can do a huge number of repairs with that. And if you are on a "boat" then you wont have to drive 15 miles to get the right tool, would you. So, if you want to lug a 20Kg toolbox up and down "stairs" then feel free to do so - dont expect to do it any other way, because there isnt one.

Oh, and BTW - on a "boat" you are unlikely to find that a new piece of equipment needing an unusual tool has miraculously(sp) appeared overnight - wish I had it that easy!.....

Andrew