What's on your walls? Neat storage ideas!
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bad_idea
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another vote for storing flammables out in the shed. i do store the paint in the hall closet inside the house tho. have to protect it from freezing. i have been keeping an eye out for a flam locker on cl.
Easterlake
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I'm a bit picky when it comes to my shop. Since it is only 16x22 it gets messy very fast if everything does not have a place. Below are a few ideas that i came up with to keep it a bit more organized.
I have 30 of these storage bins built in under my cabinets. In them I keep assorted sizes of nails, screws, washers, bolts, etc.
I have 9 foot ceilings in my shop and used 4x8 5/8" in pine on the walls. that left me with a seam 8' up. Every place the seam was exposed I trimmed it out with a 1x3 with a 45 degree cut at the top. As you can see, I made shelves and on the back put a reverse 45 so that I can slide them on and off whenever i wish
I built these bases for my band saw, drill press and grinder. I'm thinking of opening up one end of each of the bases, or putting in small drawers for blades, bit, or whatever else.
I have 30 of these storage bins built in under my cabinets. In them I keep assorted sizes of nails, screws, washers, bolts, etc.
I have 9 foot ceilings in my shop and used 4x8 5/8" in pine on the walls. that left me with a seam 8' up. Every place the seam was exposed I trimmed it out with a 1x3 with a 45 degree cut at the top. As you can see, I made shelves and on the back put a reverse 45 so that I can slide them on and off whenever i wish
I built these bases for my band saw, drill press and grinder. I'm thinking of opening up one end of each of the bases, or putting in small drawers for blades, bit, or whatever else.
johno
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Nice i like the 45 degree shelf idea.
Kent Skinner
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I use spring clamps to keep my casters from moving much.
put the clamp flat on the ground, and clamp the wheel. Takes longer to talk about it than to do it, and they are cheap.
They will still move a bit, but they won't roll.
Michael T
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The socket organizer is genius. The sockets are so.......organized!!
Nice job!
Nice job!
andrew240z
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Call me the Breeze
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I built these with the ideas from other members on here. Most the stuf I had laying around. the face can be used as a whiteboard which comes in handy for quick notes.
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JC23
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You gonna paint the ones on the right of the window gray, too?
bad_idea
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breeze,
I have it in the back of my mind to build cabinets similiar to that one of these days. What is the material on the face of the door that you use as a whiteboard? Thanks. BTW... nice work on the cabinets.
I have it in the back of my mind to build cabinets similiar to that one of these days. What is the material on the face of the door that you use as a whiteboard? Thanks. BTW... nice work on the cabinets.
Call me the Breeze
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JC... Sooner or later
bad idea... The material I believe is called Marlite? It's the smooth white stuff they sell at home depot, used in bathrooms I believe. It's 1/8 inch thick
bad idea... The material I believe is called Marlite? It's the smooth white stuff they sell at home depot, used in bathrooms I believe. It's 1/8 inch thick
bad_idea
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gotcha. i know the stuff you are talking about. thanks.
peelman
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Melamine or shower board is usually what I've heard it called. I had a 4x8 whiteboard in my last home office, trimmed in some oak 1x2's, cost like $30, looked like a million. When we moved my new wife's uncle took it to the tractor dealership he runs and is using it there.
With the right markers, and a supply of clorox wipes, the damned thing would last a long time, and even if it didn't, it was a still ridiculously cheap compared to a commercial board.
I just wish there was an easy/lightweight way to make one magnetic. I've thought about doing some experimenting with chicken wire or some kind of mesh on the back, but I'd think you'd need such stout magnets on the face, even with just 1/8" material on the board, that it would render it moot. I'm sure the geniuses running around here probably have a better solution for that, some kind of ferrous clear coat or spray-on stuff I'm not aware of
There's so much wisdom on this forum its astounding at times.
With the right markers, and a supply of clorox wipes, the damned thing would last a long time, and even if it didn't, it was a still ridiculously cheap compared to a commercial board.
I just wish there was an easy/lightweight way to make one magnetic. I've thought about doing some experimenting with chicken wire or some kind of mesh on the back, but I'd think you'd need such stout magnets on the face, even with just 1/8" material on the board, that it would render it moot. I'm sure the geniuses running around here probably have a better solution for that, some kind of ferrous clear coat or spray-on stuff I'm not aware of
There's so much wisdom on this forum its astounding at times.Call me the Breeze
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Peelman... A sheet of tin painted white should work. You could always try it on a small piece before purchasing a large sheet. I too have heard about magnetic paint. I heard stories about racecar guys spraying their aluminum heads with it so when the inspectors would go around with their magnets looking for cheaters, it would pass the test. Could be folklore stories, but ask any old racecar driver, and they all knew one that did that, right JC?
X2 this is one of my favorite threads
i just put in two little swing down shelves . can figure out how to get the photos off my blog and onto here so im just gunna post the link. http://thatcherworks.blogspot.com/2011/11/swing-down-shelves.html
Looks good
kyles974
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very ineresting....... I don't thik I have ever seen something like this, I may try doing this some where
thanks! I cant take credit for the idea but i dont know where i saw it. it probably was somewhere on here or the hamb. its really simple. i didnt even use a hinge. i just drilled holes and passed a length of 1/4 inch rod through. the trick for me was to offset the hole front of center so that the shelves would slightly angle when they were hanging.
Mikea57
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Zeppe,
Did you build that cabinet in the center of this picture? The reason I ask is that I have one almost exactly like it but mine has 3 drawers instead of 4. My bottom drawer has a deep face on it like yours too, but the actual drawer is only as deep as the other 2. It's kind of a pain. I'd like to scrap it and put a real cabinet in there because the way it's constructed all I can put in any of the drawers are shallow items. It works good for sandpaper and brush storage but there's a whole lot of wasted space up under there. It's very heavily constructed though...
put some much stronger latches on my swing down shelves. you can see how they were and how i have them set up now. http://thatcherworks.blogspot.com/2011/11/swing-down-shelve-pin-latches.html
DTL504
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mdbeck1
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Neat idea. Can you give us a close-up of the latch mechanism (open, closed, ...)? It's kind of hard to see how it works from the pictures.
x2 i guess i'm not as smart as i look.
we got the cool fork handle extension to the bent rod, but how does it Latch.
i kept looking at the rod receiver or is it the latch rod holder...
BTW, RE: ' no need for hinges, just thru-rod'
my kind of plan, love it, great thought,.
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looks like the straight part of the latch is bolted to the shelf and the U shaped half is bolted to the ceiling then the pin goes through both to hold the shelf up ..
http://thatcherworks.blogspot.com/2011/11/more-shelve-latch-photos.html so i took some more photos. its a really simple system. Im glad you like it!
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mdbeck1
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Okay, simple and effective. I've been thinking about doing something like this but hadn't really decided how I wanted all of it to work. You just gave me some good ideas. Thanks for posting the pics.
Jazz
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I just added pegboard to my walls. At first I was like AHHHHH, but then I was like ARRRGGG... when I started reading the debate about security versus convenience. Now I'm thinking that my better tools will be keep in my cabinets while some things I use often, like screw drivers, crescent wrenches, and other "household tools" like hammers will likely be on pegboard while my sockets, ratchets and most wrenches will be in the roller boxes (I have two of the HF rollers).
One thing I really like about the pegboard is that if something is missing it's very obvious. With three boys in the house it seems I'm always finding tools all over the house that they didn't return. I'm hoping this might help that problem too.
One thing I really like about the pegboard is that if something is missing it's very obvious. With three boys in the house it seems I'm always finding tools all over the house that they didn't return. I'm hoping this might help that problem too.
bad_idea
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I love these cabinets and will be building some in the near future. As you stated JAZZ pegboard invites sticky fingers, and lots of dust. My plan is to build some cabinets like these above and put pegboard in them. I had pegboard along one wall for a good while and everything stayed covered in dust. When I pulled it down there was dust stacked deep behind the pegboard.
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Call me the Breeze
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Pegboard could easily be added to those cabinets. I've seen them made with 2x4's instead of the deck boards I used. I just used what I had lying around. I had the 3 pieces of marlyte and a few extra deck boards so I made the cabinets fit the marlyte
I still love this set up from another member here ( can't remember his name -sorry)
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I still love this set up from another member here ( can't remember his name -sorry)
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Zeppe807
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There was a frame and a top when I started. I built everything needed for the drawers and face. I have all my milling tools one the left side, and my turning tools on the right side.
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Joe
Kevin54
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I'd watch hanging the air tool like that. That's quite a bit of weight hanging off of the connector. They would be better off hanging with th econnector pointing up.
And if the connector woulod happen to break, the tool has a ways to fall, possibly damaging the tool itself.
gt eunuch
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My little 15 minute funnel storage project. Turned out well i'd say, especially for using junk i had laying around...
Tony B
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Just put up shelves on the walls for all my stuff. Track shelving with brackets and plain lumber for decking. I bought several 70" long pieces of track and then cut them into small pieces where there was only one shelf. The single shelves only need a 6 inch long piece for one bracket so instead of buying thirty or forty pieces that would be too long, I cut them up into 6 inch pieces. Simple, but effective. then peg board below it and in between the windows. Hope the photo came out ok.
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