Comments on: Buy Your Own Tools http://cgervasi.com/blog/?p=54 Thoughts on Electronics and Technology Mon, 06 May 2013 20:16:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mark Walter, P.E. http://cgervasi.com/blog/?p=54&cpage=1#comment-638 Mark Walter, P.E. Wed, 10 Aug 2011 23:35:29 +0000 http://cgervasi.com/blog/?p=54#comment-638 I've been a practicing engineer for 30 years now. Ever since my first job I started gather tools of my trade and taking them with me. It seems I am in the minority as I don't see the other engineers I work with doing this. To me having my own tools makes perfect sense. Most of the tools are common everyday items, something that should be available at any decent engineering lab. Yet by having my own tools I don't have to spend time looking for what I want: I know what tools I carry and exactly where they are. Sure comes in handy when I work after hours and the technicians are not around to ask where they keep their wire strippers. In addition I modified or made small hand tools for specialized purposes. It always feels good to bring out a particular tool I've built and use it to solve a problem. In addition to hand tools I also include software tool in my bag of tricks. There are many specialized and often inexpensive software tools that can be found to make my life easier, be it a text editor, plotting program or just a simple Excel spreadsheet template set up to manipulate data in some particular manner. Mark Walter I’ve been a practicing engineer for 30 years now. Ever since my first job I started gather tools of my trade and taking them with me. It seems I am in the minority as I don’t see the other engineers I work with doing this.

To me having my own tools makes perfect sense. Most of the tools are common everyday items, something that should be available at any decent engineering lab. Yet by having my own tools I don’t have to spend time looking for what I want: I know what tools I carry and exactly where they are. Sure comes in handy when I work after hours and the technicians are not around to ask where they keep their wire strippers.

In addition I modified or made small hand tools for specialized purposes. It always feels good to bring out a particular tool I’ve built and use it to solve a problem.

In addition to hand tools I also include software tool in my bag of tricks. There are many specialized and often inexpensive software tools that can be found to make my life easier, be it a text editor, plotting program or just a simple Excel spreadsheet template set up to manipulate data in some particular manner.

Mark Walter

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