Back From The Dead: A Custom Toolbox For Every Eventuality

Be still your beating hearts, because for this edition of Back From The Dead, Dieter is giving you an in depth look at his tools. Oh yes. Here we go with the deep dive tool box love nerd fest. We know you love it. Tools! Toolkits! How tools work! How tools are made! Where tools are made! What they’re made from! Who makes them! Who uses them! Basically if it’s got to do with tools then I’m interested, if they’re bike tools? Even better! Not my box, but an example of the kit I bought.My toolkit is one of my most treasured possessions, something that I love almost as much as the machines it helps me build and a project that I’ve had going for as long as I’ve been a mechanic. A project that will in all likelihood still be going strong by the time i eventually leave this mortal coil and hand it down to my cats! There’s a lot to talk about with a full toolkit so I’ll go at it in a couple of chunks starting with… The Box The actual box itself has had the full Back From The Dead treatment, starting life as a Park Tool EK1 event kit (I think that’s what it was called) back in about 2009 it’s certainly less event ready now thanks to its various bolted on wings (more on those later) and broken latch so it now lives permanently on my workbench. Before it grew wings and a skirtIt...

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