What's on your walls? Neat storage ideas!

[just1more]

Been kinda lurking around for a bit and love looking at everyones shops and ideas! Decided it was time to jump in with my bolt storage bin.

My son is a welder and for my birthday last year he made me one of the best "guy gifts" ever! These are pics of of the bolt bin he made to fit behind my walk in door to the garage.

Works awesome... doesnt take much floor space and no more digging thru boxes of bolts and nuts to find what I need. The other cool thing is I have a bunch of old metal storage trays that will piggyback on the front lip of the bin. you can see a couple of them towards the bottom. This is great for the odd stuff /fine thread, studs, etc.

thanks again to everyone for all the great ideas!

 

[peelman]

Very nice! I like that 41" Masterforce set on the left too

 

[jmh21586]

Lemme guess - 20-something office worker....

Ohhh gawd I couldn't even imagine.

No. I'm a 33 year old construction worker.

 

[LWW]

My son is a welder and for my birthday last year he made me one of the best "guy gifts" ever! These are pics of of the bolt bin he made to fit behind my walk in door to the garage.

That's excellent! The rack is deep enough to hold what you need but not so deep that stuff gets lost in the back never to be seen or heard from again!

I use those AKRO bins like nobody's business. I have about 20 of them hanging from the top "overhang" shelf on each of my benches that hold the 4' bench lights. I also have a rolling bin shelf that holds about 75 of them on each side! Easy access and I can grab a bin when I need to take whats in it with me to work on a project.

With three daughters I can only dream about gifts like that!

Cheers,
LWW

 

[just1more]

Very nice! I like that 41" Masterforce set on the left too

Good 'ol Menards. ... would have prefered one of the professional boxes, but being a "weekend warrior", just couldnt justify the price. Plus I saved up all my rebates, gift cards, and the credits when I return something- to help pay for it.


The toolbox savings also helped pay for the cabinets and countertops I put in my work area.

 

[peelman]

I don't consider those Masterforce boxes "settling" for anything They're superior to just about every other box I have seen and touched, save for the most high end of the tool truck ****. My 26" Chest is a treat. Looking to add a rollaway later this year for the interim, then spring for the 56" once i get a shop up in a year or so (unless we end up buying a house/land that has a shop already...)

 

[just1more]

I don't consider those Masterforce boxes "settling" for anything They're superior to just about every other box I have seen and touched, save for the most high end of the tool truck ****. My 26" Chest is a treat. Looking to add a rollaway later this year for the interim, then spring for the 56" once i get a shop up in a year or so (unless we end up buying a house/land that has a shop already...)

I have to say the box has served me well in the time I've had it.

I design and sell kitchen cabinetry for a living, so, I decided to put a few bucks more into the cabinets and installed custom-all wood Cherry cabinetry in the garage.

I have a friend that gave me a little **** about that. He wrenches for a living. He has a Snap-on tool box that I joke needs a trailer hitch and lights to move it. I spent a LOT less on my toolbox AND Cherry cabinetry combined than that empty Snap-on box cost!

 

[peelman]

On a sidenote, they've updated the 41" Chest, the slide out worksurface is now a grip-latch-y thing. It locks both extended, and retracted; you just lift the handle like a grip-latch box to release the catches at either extreme. Played with the new one the other night in Menards. Its a nice change.

 

[1983Camperspecial]

Fact is that Osha is extremely full of ****. Yes there are some decent rules, but one reason we lost alot of industries is we have become safety nazis, fact is alot of people got hurt due to either a lack of common sense ,or not paying attention, and bad as I hate to say it **** happens and you can't keep protecting everyone all the time, I work for the railroad and with all the stupid *** safety rules we got, we can't get **** done, Fact is people get hurt, let people learn from mistakes and people start to learn common sense which is severely lacking these days because we don't let people do something stupid and learn that you don't do that **** twice. Working is hazardous true, but its a risk you have to take to get the job done.

 

[peelman]

Define "common sense" for me. There is no such thing. Common to you isn't common to everybody else on the planet. What if in the course of "letting somebody learn from their mistakes" they injure three (or 30) other coworkers who were doing their job correctly?

 

[just1more]

A friend of mine says.. " The problem with common sense is, it isn"t."

 

[ihredo4]

Common sense to me is coming inside when it rains. To stop playing golf when it is lightening out. Not sticking anything into a turning wheel. Ok I will fess up I did both of the last ones in my younger years...part of learning how stupid I can be. Anyhow my point is when people learn to stop being led around like cattle we can get rid of OSHA. Biggest thing is everyone has to stop hiding behind attorneys and take responsibility for their own actions. That will not happen in this damned society so we are stuck with the blind leading the blind.

 

[rmousir]

there are lots of dangerous things that we do that can be done safely and we don't need regulations to make that happen.

 

[The J]

ok enough osha banter!

let's get back to neat storage ideas!
i have this page bookmarked, always looking for some cool new ideas.

 

[oilslick]

I think I heard once osha was a small town in wisconsin

 

[Toolbag]

Bump

 

[Lynnhowlyn]

subscribing .... for future reference!

 

[MKIII is KING]

i made an addition based off of the PO design, his is the rack holding the chrome set over the door way.
i extended it 8' along the side wall and plan on taking it the total length of the wall as soon as i can find some more pipe laying around.

sorry for the tight pics,
i have a vanagon hogging up a lot of room.

 

[cdottrot]

The wheels in the left side of the 2nd picture look suspiciously like Veyron wheels.

This is your home shop?!

edit: Hmm..not Veyron, but that's the Bugatti logo, is it not?

 

[MKIII is KING]

correct, this is my house.

they're mid 90s BBS buggatis
they made both single and 2pc versions in various sizes for various makes.

these are 17x8 5x120 et38.

 

[BENCH]

Bump. Too many great ideas to let the thread die.

 

[Lkdelta]

Where can these be found. I have a few bins for reloading ammo. Where can I find these with the board to mount them on.[/QUOTE]

Ok..I **** at giving exact links, but if you click this www.quantum-bins.com and search "recycled" in the upper right corner, there are some good prices

 

[jmh21586]

They sell those at Northern Tool.

 

[sscustom]

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[dittle fart around]

Where can these be found. I have a few bins for reloading ammo. Where can I find these with the board to mount them on.[/QUOTE]
Check out ShopStorageCabinets.com Got plastic bins in case lots, slotted panels to mount them on and racks to set on your workbench.

 

[jerseywild]

Hide the home mechanical equipment.
I added a sliding storage rack in front of the air conditioner air handler to act as "wall" space. The handler takes up a large corner of the garage and I tried to make the most of it. It ended up being a great place to store low profile stuff like paints, waxes, and lubes. I also have my larger nut/bolt bins mounted on there. One half is stationary, while the other has casters to let it roll towards the side wall gaining access to the A/C unit for filter changes and other servicing.

Nice use of wasted space!

 

[tstukel]

Nice use of wasted space!

Ingenious...and beautifully executed!

 

[mypov]

Just made this today, thanks to slowtwich; a slight variation on his creation.

 

[mypov]

Built this today, it's a rendition of slowtwitches creation.
Sorry, don't know how to rotate the last image.
Worked out pretty good I think. Gonna hold lots of chargers.
Cheers everyone!

 

[RBailey]

Wet and Dry holder
http://diary-of-mgb.blogspot.com/2011/03/wet-n-dry-holder.html

Not on my walls, on my box instead and a variation of the cheap coupler idea.
http://diary-of-mgb.blogspot.com/2011_06_01_archive.html

 

[Brentocool]

Kitchen cabinets from Menards

 

[Zick]

Kitchen cabinets from Menards

Wow, that looks really good!

 

[WiBad]

Credit to "Family Handyman" or "Wood" magazine, don't remember which:

 

[jmh21586]

Anybody got a source for CHEAP quick connects for air tools to use as air tool holders?

I wanna do something like post 351.

 

[Thirsty]

I have a total of 3 shelves for storage, not much but they hold what I need them too.

 

[dittle fart around]

View media item 11648Here's some cool looking metal pegboard.

 

[kochevnik]

Since this place is a little over the top - how about this ...

The biggest pain I have found over the years (and it does not get better as you get older) IS FINDING STUFF. I literally have thousands of different items and most are quite small. So what I ended up doing is writing a computer program to do my inventory. LOL Yeah - I know - but it's one of the things I am good at and I had the time and I was tired of spending half my time LOOKING for stuff.

Each box has a label (Brother label maker) like WL-0030 which would be a white lid box # 30 and what ever I put in there goes into the computer with a bunch of word tags on it - so if I need a 5 amp automotive fuse I can search by auto or 5amp or fuse and it will pop in a list and tell me which box it is in.

Each box goes in a location (white rack A - shelf 5) and an 'area' / building - this is for future expansion. Now that the program is written each time I fill a box and put it on a shelf, I just do data entry for the items and can find them any time I want.

So an item goes into a container which is in a location within an area (see program screenshot below) - and any of them can be changed with one or two clicks of a mouse - so I could move everything on White Rack A to a new building and all the containers and items would 'transfer' along with it.

This of course took a lot of time (like many many thousands of dollars of billable hours of time) but I figure now that it is done, it is something I can use to track virtually ANYTHING in my house or shop for the rest of my life.

The shoeboxes I got from walmart & bimart (about $1 each) and the smaller colored boxes are from Really Useful Boxes (www.reallyusefulboxes.com) and those actually run $1 or $2 each but they are immensely handy for all the electronics stuff I usually work on. Wire rack shelves $50 or so from Target.

I have 7 of these wire racks in my house right now and a couple hundred of the blue and white lid plastic 'shoeboxes).

A lot of work but I can store (and find) an immense amount of parts and material in a very small space.

 

[kochevnik]

A screenshot from the computer program.

 

[nrs2420]

That's pretty cool

 

[wxm]

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