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My Bag of Tricks


JamesSavik

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As a field engineer, I could carry everything in a semi-truck and still show up at a site without something mission critical. This is a list of my standard kit and load out for jobs that have not specified any specific tools.

 

 

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M-51 Engineers Field Kit

 

Box cutter

Mini-Maglite

Dymo LectraTag Lettering Gun

Gerber Multi-Tool

Folding Magnifier 8X

Jewelers Loop (40X) w/LED light

Scissors

Needle nosed pliers

Wire Cutters

Skil laser/LED/area light

Phillips/Standard fiber-glass screwdriver

Phillips/Standard 1/4" screwdrivers

Phillips/Standard micro Screwdrivers

3/8" driver

100 screwdriver bits

Cat 5 Network Cable Tester

Fiji FinePix A330 digital camera

Network cable- various lengths 3', 6' and 9'

Misc USB/PS/2 connectors

Velcro cable ties

Snap-tight cable ties

Index Cards

Notebook

1/4", 3/8" nut drivers

1/4" mini socket set

mirror probe

magnetic probe

standard rack bolts

electric socket tester

RJ-11 telephone jack tester

16 gig memory stick

hemostats

 

 

I also carry a laptop but pack it separately.

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Nice kit.

Mine has (in addition to many things from your bag)

 

- Two 1.5 TB USB hard drives for data backup

- One USB/e-SATA dock for disk cloning

- Two SATA/USB enclosures for hard disks - 2.5 and 3.5 flavors

- One adapter for USB to IDE/SATA/SCSI drives

- A pile of flash drives for sneakernetting

- Three or four bootable CDs/flash drives for booting systems outside their OS (Hirens, TrueImage, two or three Linux distros)

- One USB hard drive with a full set of Dell openmanage/server build disks and a bunch of Windows images

- Two or three Dell disk carriers for server disks and a couple of HP ones

- One bag-o-cables of just about any sort

- A box of cat5e, some wall plates/remod boxes and jacks

- Cabling gear (push sticks, a fish tape, two testers, toner, zip ties, punchdown tool, scissors, cable stripper etc)

- A ladder and a step stool

 

- A separate box of keyboards, mice, and some stuff I can sell (like network cards, small switches/routers)

 

The mandatory laptop, a not so necessary ipad, and the relevant crap that goes with that stuff.

 

I like comparing gear smile.png

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As I am installing routers and switches, my gear is aimed in that direction.

 

I do have a LOT of cabling stuff but I don't carry it on every gig.

 

I have the stuff to make cat 5 cables but I don't need it every trip.

 

The laptop is necessary for configuring the routers and switches,

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Yeah, I can see where your bag is tweaked to configuring specific gear. Mine is really wide open, I tend to go site to site, and never really know what the heck is going on when I get there.

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