my toolbox is a custom made heavy canvas tote.. had it nearly 25 years now. Outta that nodescript shapeless mouldy motheaten stained and disreputable bag I can build a plane, rig a boat, strip down an engine, diagnose a motor, rewire your house or perform surgery on a cat.
There might be 800 dollars worth of tools in it. On one occasion about 15 years back, it was stolen.. when i found it, the tools were gone.. the thief obviously was clueless. That old bag was worth more to me than all the stuff it ever held.
Never met a mechanic worth a toejam yet that would hesitate a second when it came time to chose between eating and paying the snap-on bill.
He might starve, his wife leave him, his family disown him.. but he'll still have his bright red snap-on roll-away to park his greasy coffee mug on tomorrow morning.
