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<DIV>Years ago I started with the black box with expanding trays typical of
piano technicians of the day. I then started to drop some money on
Excelite cases ...... the leather over plywood type. Sharp looking
but didn’t really suit my needs all that well plus you ended up carrying all
that structural material along with all the tools. I went through
two of them in about 10 years. The dovetail at the corners would give it
up. My shoulder was starting to give me an attitude so I had to consider
what I was doing all day that was causing that. Between hanging on to the
steering wheel at the twelve o’clock position, tuning pianos, and carrying the
50 pound case, I was at no loss for wonder why my shoulder was starting to talk
foul words in my ear. A Genck case wasn’t the answer. I bought a
soft sided one and couldn’t stand using it. So bought a tool roll and made
many trips out to the car for what was missing. That got old in a hurry
but my shoulder was cooling off. So then one day I was at a garage sale
and saw a Targus laptop case for $20. It was so close to what I needed
that I adapted to it quite readily. 15 years or better later, the case has
been repaired in numerous places but then the zipper started to fail.
Finally it gave it up enough that I decided I’d better have a look around at
what was going to be my next tech case. Using the keyword Targus on
Craigslist I found another one pretty much like my old one but improved.
Yep, $20 later I had my new one. New they’re $130. My Genck is my
overload case that I keep in my car and has all the odd and backup type tools
that are seldom needed in the field but sure are nice to have when you need
them. I put all the tools in the little pockets on the pallets and by the
time I look in there again they’re all back in the same pile they were in last
time I did that ....... or so it seems. In my Targus, I use
the small and the large tool rolls and a small zipper bag (for the power adapter
originally) for glues and really small tools that get lost easily. The
outside pouches house my invoices (portable desk from NEBS) and the other side
holds my appointment book.</DIV>
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<DIV>My (cheap) thrifty Scottish/English/German blood is happy.
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