MOTORING

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10752, 24 November 1928, Page 2

MOTORING

THE TOOL KIT. BE PARTICULAR IN PACKING. Maybol I’m just a little bit, particular about tools and how they’re stored away, but it seems to me that, most owners. are terribly .careless with the tool kit, given them with a new car (says ‘‘Service Sam’.’ ip the “Studebaker Wheel”). Some folks just naturally make a nuisance, of their tool kit—and ’there may he times when that, kit will turn'out to 1 Lio their best friend. ..

Every car carries a full set, of tools for every operation which the owner is expected to perform on . Iris car. Do yon remember when the car was delivered? All the.tools were contained in a pasteboard box and fitted nicely under the seat. After a few months of > driving owners get careless. Then likely as ,not their tools seem to be an annoyance. _ About t he first time the average driver has to change a tyro lie tears open the box, yanks out'(the, tools lie lieeds, and when through with them just tosses them back in the. car any old way. That’s no way to treat tools. The other day I rode in a car which, according to the owner, sounded like a boiler factory. , . He was right, too. There was a conglomeration of sounds in the car that seemed to suggest general disaster. I had my own. suspicions and looked under the seat. The tools had been tossed in belter skelter and simply bounced around all over the place with, every bump in the road. After I had arranged Ahem for him everything was all O.K. He was certainly pleased, but he could have avoided a lot of mental agitation by simply being good to his tools in the first place., Take a few tips op tools. If you haven’t thrown away the carton in which your tools were originally packed, save it. It makes a very good, container in which to keep your, various tools snug as a bug in a rug. _ If you no longer have the carton,' line the bottom of the tool cache with several thicknesses of paper or heavy cloth. Pack the large tools careful-* ly, seeing that they he as fiat ’as possible and are not loose to jump around while the car is in motion.

Don’t put small tools in the pockets of -the car. They will be haixt te find when you need them, and especially in sedans, have a tendency to wear through the pocket. Don’t leave your tools lying about your garage figuring that you’ll get them together before you. leave, .on a trip. You may forget. . •-?’ . . Don’t use your tools for any purpose other than that for which tliey were designed. Pliers were never intended to take the place of wrenches and screwdrivers are not cold chisels or crowbars. -,. . ...

Don’t jam the top of the tool cache down in the attempt to force it closed. Pack your tools carefully and you won’t have any difficulty making the top close.