Storing your "one-offs"

[rick carpenter]

How are y'all storing/organizing your one-off tools. Examples: pipe cutters, file card, wire brush, plumb bob, inspection mirror, tube of lithium grease, etc

Thanks

 

[Prospecter]

Mostly I broaden my categories. Pipe cutters with plumbing, file card with files, and I have a drawer for wire brushes. Plumb bob is with other measuring devices. Grease is with the other greases.

I did borrow from others here, though. I have a drawer labeled "Bits and Bobs, Fiddly Bits, and Oddments." My inspection mirrors are in there.

 

[Chipm]

I did borrow from others here, though. I have a drawer labeled "Bits and Bobs, Fiddly Bits, and Oddments." My inspection mirrors are in there.

Yabber Dabbers, Thermonuclear Doomsday Devices, Assorted Lengths of Wire...

 

[SouthernIllinois]

I have an older Craftsman box that I really don't "need" but don't want to sell and I have room for it. All the oddball stuff goes in it. Surplus wire brushes, surveyor's tape, small battery charger, carpet knives that seem to reproduce, tubes of dried out super glue and stuff like that.

 

[LeeG]

I’ve got a couple drawers that are my “stuff” areas. Once I get enough of one type of thing in there to at least partially fill one of my standard containers, it gets moved there and labeled.

 

[kbuhagiar]

Mostly I broaden my categories. Pipe cutters with plumbing, file card with files, and I have a drawer for wire brushes. Plumb bob is with other measuring devices. Grease is with the other greases.

I did borrow from others here, though. I have a drawer labeled "Bits and Bobs, Fiddly Bits, and Oddments." My inspection mirrors are in there.

In my garage, inspection mirrors are in the cabinet labeled "Measuring Devices". Seemed like a natural fit to me.

 

[larry_g]

How are y'all storing/organizing your one-off tools. Examples: pipe cutters, file card, wire brush, plumb bob, inspection mirror, tube of lithium grease, etc

Thanks

What you have listed are not one-off tools in my shop. As others have said broaden your categories I tend to store tools by usage. If I have a building project ahead then those tools are together. Electrical project, tools together. Card files go with the wire brushes. Pipe cutters go in the plumbing cabinet. Plumb bobs in with the carpentry tools.

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[Bucko]

Just get multiples of each so they can have their own drawer.

For me my plumb bobs go with my chalk boxes and string. Pipe cutters go with the other odd plumbing tools like a basin wrench and plumbers putty. Inspection mirror goes with automotive stuff.
I bought a bunch of 1"×3" magnetic channel labels and used a P-touch label maker to put on my drawers. Then if things need to be moved its simple to do.

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[Jgaz]

A lot of my one offs are stored with like tools as others have said.
I do however keep a lot of misc. stuff in a rescued “redecorated”tuneup cabinet.

Inside


Outside

See what I mean about redecorated.

 

[firebirdparts]

I have functional groups. I don't know what "one off" means but I have a box that, if I have to work on plumbing, I am definitely going to have to open that box. If I don't work on plumbing, I would not open it. I have two electrical boxes. 120 volts and up, 12 volts and down. so forth and so on. One is concrete. One is tile. One is drywall. then 27 of them are car.

I suppose it's true that you can't put framing tools in a box. They are more like scattered all over.

 

[Crazyjake8493]

Inspection mirrors in the toolbox drawer with calipers, magnetic pickup tools, claw grabbers.
Plumb bobs in a box on the shelf with 4x4 post level, mason line, line level, etc.
Large pipe cutters hanging on wall with pipe wrenches.
Tubes of grease with all my other cans and lubricants - top shelf of tool box.
Wire brushes on hooks on the wall, except for the ones on the welder carts.

 

[johninct]

I have a couple of drawers that I store odd, unrelated tools in.

 

[545_days]

I store most of this sort of tool by usage. Inspection mirrors are kind of an exception, as I have one in the mechanics tool box, one with the endoscope, and one hanging in a screwdriver holder on pegboard above my workbench. The one over the workbench seems to get used the most.

I've never been happy with how I store the plumb bob and chalk line; (stuffed in a box with other carpentry stuff like cat's paws, string line levels, and of course twine) but I use those so rarely that I haven't bothered to come up with a better solution.

The file card lives in the file drawer, since when I need it, that is the drawer I will have open.

 

[unikornking]

Inspection mirrors in the toolbox drawer with calipers, magnetic pickup tools, claw grabbers.
Plumb bobs in a box on the shelf with 4x4 post level, mason line, line level, etc.
Large pipe cutters hanging on wall with pipe wrenches.
Tubes of grease with all my other cans and lubricants - top shelf of tool box.
Wire brushes on hooks on the wall, except for the ones on the welder carts.

 

[rsanter]

One offfs?
don’t have too mane of those.
you store tools with like tools, or at least similar.
then you get to the miscellaneous drawer

 

[Mike65]

Most of my tools go in the toolbox, unless they are in their own storage case then they go on a shelf with the others that are in storage cases.

 

[NUTTSGT]

Some of it, goes in a drawer of the tool box, other things, on pegboard and the rest usually in pull out box drawers under the work bench.

 

[logical]

I have a stairs from garage directly to the unfinished part of my basement. One wall is a 4x8 pegboard for hand saws, framing squares, long levels, pipe wrenches, other stuff not commonly needed in the garage. Totes on shelves down there hold drywall, painting, drop cloths, and other random supplies. A bunch of little parts organizers hold all those odd fasteners, spare parts, and other things "I might need someday".

 

[metalmagpie]

How are y'all storing/organizing your one-off tools. Examples: pipe cutters, file card, wire brush, plumb bob, inspection mirror, tube of lithium grease, etc

Thanks

I have 4 stacks of Kennedy rollaways. Things like what you describe are stored in locations governed by 2 principles. A place for everything and everything in its place. Keep like objects together. If you don't have enough drawer space to store your stuff then go get more drawer units.

 

[nadogail]

I have a plumbing box, an electrical box, a painting box and a Drywall box.
Wrenches and Screwdrivers are in their appropriate boxes.

There will be more boxes to follow..