shop storage

Re: shop storage

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native now in Jax Fl.


>How big is a "box"?

Do you not have the plastic drawed hardware bins?

I take it that you have not sorted them out and put all like items together yet. You know, all the nuts in one container, all the washers in another, all the woodscrews in another, etc, etc, etc. Perhaps once you do that and put them into say clear plastic peanut butter containers they's take up less space Les. (couldn't resist that one)

How in the world did you ever manage to accumulate so much errant hardware?

Todd O.

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Kevin French, Antrim, NH


>From someone who has been there, get it sperated and then sorted by size. Start by putting it into Coffee Cans, Mason Jars, and/or small boxes. Basically anything you can come up with for now.

The first key is to figure out what you have and how to find it when you need it, because if you got and can't find it. -you ain't got it.

Once you figure out what you have, what else you want to add to it, and how much space to put it in, you can start to figure out what kind of containers to use.

I've gone from a set of wooden shelves with cans and boxes to, a little of everything. I have 18' of hardware stacked 7' high. with 17 different set of drawers cabinets and shelves and I'm still tweacking it every time I find some thing new.

Here's a pic of mine, there's four more feet of storage case to the left of this pic. everything is marked and I can find any piece I need.


My storage

Wow

jim reed @ tallahassee


>that's a lot of nuts.

Well, that puts my tiny area all to shame

Paul Kramer


>But here it is anyway. This is showing the cabinet as a whole (lower right) and one of the drawers of 'stuff' all openned up (upper left). As you can see, the drawers get bigger and the containers do too as you descend. The hardware makes excellent ballast for the planer and the drill press.

Paul

Re: shop storage

Thom D


>One of the magazines once did a thing on how many little drawers are required to house all the comon sizes of hardware. Hundreds was the answer, looks like Home depot and that's just for the grades that don't carry any serious weight. In cabinetmaking It can take a month to make a piece of furniture with a few dozen small screws. So while I keep the production sizes of nails and drywalls screws, basically I throw the rest out and buy as required. In fact, the better quality stuff comes with matching screws anyway.

Re: Well, that puts my tiny area all to shame

Kevin French, Antrim, NH


>My collection "may" put yours to shame, BUT, those drawers are the next evolution of what I have now.

Again nice drawers.

Re: shop storage

les winter


>I have a talent for collecting errant hardware. It's a gift.

Thanks, Kevin

Paul Kramer

Re: Wow

Ernie Miller


>You have to remember he is the one who goes to the exchange station every week. I built an apathacary chest. but a quick and dirty rack made out of them rectangular lunch meat containers or baby wipe containers. call me old fashioned but I also have made a smalle rack using check boxes. Reduce reuse recycle

Re: Wow

Kevin French, Antrim, NH


>What do you mean every week? How about 3 days a week and twice each day, once on the clock, once on the way home. Today I was there 3 times, and score another 100lbs of hardware for myself and another 100 in just nails. I gave those to a co-worker who's building his kids a tree house. I'll return 80 of mine, but I'll check thru it all.

I use these

david.marcus.brown


>catalog link