freudianfloyd
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Thanks. I've made a few different ones, but these seemed the best method. I need to get some more golf tees to plug the holes though.
What's on your walls? Neat storage ideas!
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Thanks. I've made a few different ones, but these seemed the best method. I need to get some more golf tees to plug the holes though.
67CarGuy
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Just made it through the most recent 30 pages... there are some great ideas here! I'm impressed that more keep coming up, although I probably shouldn't be. Keep 'em coming!
I've got a few ideas to steal myself, and then it'll be time to post some of my own solutions...
I've got a few ideas to steal myself, and then it'll be time to post some of my own solutions...
willie4896
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Ditto!
gilwest
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Made a little hanger bracket for my side grinders. Just 2 L brackets and a piece of flat stock welded together. 
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Techie1961
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I've been working on redoing a century barn and had to build a couple of doors. The inside of the doors got a peg board treatment.
83trekker
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Here are some of my 'creations'. I love the tape measure holder. It works perfectly! The screwdriver rack works okay but I need to make a lower guide hole "shelf".
That bracket for the tape measure....where did you find that! I want to do the same thing in my shop!
Thanks!
Here's a new Dewalt charger bracket I made and a gang charger for the new tools at work.
Oh man!!! That's awesome! I need that bracket for my charger...care to make one for me??
Thanks!
Patrick
Built a cabinet for spray paints. Thinking I should've built it a little bigger. Had more cans than I thought. Amazing how much I had in every nook and cranny. A cabinet like this might actually save me money. Won't be buying paint that I already have.
I have seen you say twice you should've built this bigger. What is the dimensions you used and what do you feel would be big enough?
Here is the beginning of my aerosol cabinet. It is 4 feet tall and 3 feet wide. So far I have zero dollars in it as all of the materials were already at my house either cut offs of other lumber projects or as is the case for the backing of the cabinet (and likely the front of it too) dumpster diving materials
Shelf spacing top to bottom
10"
10"
12"
13"
Seems it will hold about 96 spray paint type cans
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Shelf spacing top to bottom
10"
10"
12"
13"
Seems it will hold about 96 spray paint type cans
Unfolded
Hung
Open
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TerryH
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Very cool ideas here. What I need is more walls. Mine are pretty full. 
One other free thing in my wife's garage is my folding work area. It is the solid core door we replaced with a newer metal door from the garage to our house. It is hung on hinges on a 2x4 on the wall. It folds down and out of the way so the wife can put her car in her garage. One of these days I'll get a shop built for me and my stuff but for now we share. [emoji16]
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Bsheffer
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This might be one of my better ad-hock solutions....some 1/2 and 3/8th inch Baltic birch...few piano hinges and bam!!! Organization. Actually, one of my big motivations was to put together a system that did NOT give my kids an excuse of..."I don't know where this belongs"...after they use it and throw it somewhere. This works great....It is designed to basically fold back flat to the wall which is the resting position when not in use.
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Bob Heine
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Bsheffer, that's just brilliant!
Bsheffer
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Thanks....I did this after I chased my tools for years and fought with the kids...Then just bought one of those million piece kits at Sears...knowing I'd probably use 1/2 of them over time. I just didn't know which half!!I am still learning...
TerryH
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+1!!!! That's very cool!!!
This might be one of my better ad-hock solutions....some 1/2 and 3/8th inch Baltic birch...few piano hinges and bam!!! Organization. Actually, one of my big motivations was to put together a system that did NOT give my kids an excuse of..."I don't know where this belongs"...after they use it and throw it somewhere. This works great....It is designed to basically fold back flat to the wall which is the resting position when not in use.
Can you give us a closeup of the hinges, and how you have them mounted? Thanks
Bsheffer
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Sure. I cannot post more photos until tomorrow. Looking at it again, I used strap hinges vs piano hinges. Either would work. I'll post more photos tomorrow
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peelman
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I got tired of my Akro-Mils drawer cabinets taking up so much horizontal shelf space, and ending up with a pile of **** accumulating in front of them (as flat surfaces tend to do in a garage).
So I finally got off my *** and bought some plywood last fall. Been meaning to share these and kept forgetting.
Now all four cabinets take up the shelf space that just one (well, 1.5) took up previously, and there's no ledge for me to pile **** onto. When I need access, I just slide out the relevant cabinet.
The box fits super tight into the gorilla rack (ahem, sorry, Xtreme garage shelving), tighter than I would have liked because I got in a hurry and didn't get the dividers cut perfect.
I need to organize things more, and bust out the label maker and label the ends, once I establish some sense of order, But I've been too busy with my paying job to really spend a lot of time doing anything else in the garage (which shows, because its a disaster).
were I doing it over again, I would probably have used some corner braces or some scrap cut into triangles to attach a proper face to each panel.
since I used full extension but not over-extension drawers, and didn't have spare room to recess the chests enough to cut handles directly into the panels, I had to get creative with handles too, as you can see:
<video controls="controls" height="480" name="Creative handles" src="http://skitch.peelman.us/parts%20box/VID_0001.mov"></video>
A couple of screws act as stoppers and the L-brace just articulates on one screw.
So I finally got off my *** and bought some plywood last fall. Been meaning to share these and kept forgetting.
Now all four cabinets take up the shelf space that just one (well, 1.5) took up previously, and there's no ledge for me to pile **** onto. When I need access, I just slide out the relevant cabinet.
The box fits super tight into the gorilla rack (ahem, sorry, Xtreme garage shelving), tighter than I would have liked because I got in a hurry and didn't get the dividers cut perfect.
I need to organize things more, and bust out the label maker and label the ends, once I establish some sense of order, But I've been too busy with my paying job to really spend a lot of time doing anything else in the garage (which shows, because its a disaster).
were I doing it over again, I would probably have used some corner braces or some scrap cut into triangles to attach a proper face to each panel.
since I used full extension but not over-extension drawers, and didn't have spare room to recess the chests enough to cut handles directly into the panels, I had to get creative with handles too, as you can see:
<video controls="controls" height="480" name="Creative handles" src="http://skitch.peelman.us/parts%20box/VID_0001.mov"></video>
A couple of screws act as stoppers and the L-brace just articulates on one screw.
Bsheffer
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DB, here are some more photos of the hinges. I ended up just stacking pieces of 3/4 inch plywood to get the thing to sit correctly. It took a little trial and error. It could be a bit more elegant but in the end, it is solid...and generally inexpensive..
StormcrowAz
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Hello Zimbar, not sure if this is what he used...but they look almost exactly like the brackets that holds my sofa sectional together.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HAVQGKK/?tag=atomicindus08-20
peelman
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I will be ordering a set of those. And the "related items" led me to this: http://amzn.to/21k5asQ, which I'm not sure how I would use, but its usefulness doesn't end with attaching sofas together...
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Techie1961
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I want these tilting clear bins. My old plastic drawers are busted up and full of ****. It takes forever to find stuff cause I pull the drawer out to see what's there. By the time I found the piece, I forgot why I needed it. I'm thinking the clear view without the handle in the way will help out.
Of course if I cut back on some other things, maybe I could find things faster.
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freudianfloyd
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Hi
Im a newbie to the forum and would like to share some of my ideas. As I do a bit of everything I need to make my workshop as versatile as possible but still keep as much space as possible. Here is a panoramic picture of my 6m x 9m garage/workshop
So firstly I picked up the table for the equivalent of US$5. Then I proceeded to make my cutoff saw fold away.
This meant however that I lost some much needed work space so on to plan B. I decided to use the space between the doors. I made a rotating table to house my cutoff saw and my drill press.
Flipped
I am not sure where my tools will suffer for this so any advise will be appreciated.
Cheers from Cape Town South Africa.
Alwie
This is an awesome idea. I need to copy this with my abrasive saw and chop saw.
peelman
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I had a set of these at my old gig; they were the smallest size and were fantastic for a dense amount of small parts storage. We had a ton of thumbscrews, hard drive screws, jumpers, and other server-room related **** that was previously all just in a big crappy box in a jumbled mess. Once I spent 20 minutes sorting it into the relevant bins, it became a lot less frustrating trying to locate what you wanted.
I want these tilting clear bins. My old plastic drawers are busted up and full of ****. It takes forever to find stuff cause I pull the drawer out to see what's there. By the time I found the piece, I forgot why I needed it. I'm thinking the clear view without the handle in the way will help out.
Of course if I cut back on some other things, maybe I could find things faster.
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dwysywd
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Flipped
Ok, very cool idea, they are always in the way. Only issue I can see it getting wood dust in undesirable places in the drill press and and metal shavings in bad spots on the chop saw. So, Maybe a cover that cinches
around the unused item and is universal fit, like a bag with a draw string at the bottom.rartuin270
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Not on the wall yet but I got the final coat of paint on this today.
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Ok, very cool idea, they are always in the way. Only issue I can see it getting wood dust in undesirable places in the drill press and and metal shavings in bad spots on the chop saw. So, Maybe a cover that cinches
Mount a sheet or tarp to the table so it flows down over the bottom tool. When you flip over the stand the sheet will then drop down to cover the tool now on the bottom.
dwysywd
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Bingo! Thats perfect!
rayra
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Whole thing is hanging on 2 screws, should have put a french cleat on it.
The width is just a finger larger than a full row of cans. This is to keep the cans stacked in a 'honeycomb' pattern. You can pull any one can out, but not two adjacent or the pile collapses. An intermediate shelf to take half the weight of the stack would help, the bottom cans are a little tough to get out. But I just put my multiples and less-used cans down there. I used colored sharpies to write on the can lids, some of those are glues, and various kinds of clear coats.
The depth was driven by the width of the 1-lb nail/ screw boxes. Happens to leave the top rim of the spray cans sticking out to be grabbed. The bottom face is 3" tall. Other than that detail it's an empty box. That bottom fascia sets the tilt angle of the cans.
No wasted space, I can immediately find a color, and it's 'modern art' just hanging there.