Lets see your spray paint storage

Mr.N · Nov 8, 2012

Lets see your spray paint, rattle can, brake cleaner, anything that come is the standard size storage.

What do you do to store your cans efficiently?

Here is one idea to get it started.

Here is what I ended up making:
Link to directions on how to make it: http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=174900

Mr.N · Nov 8, 2012

Here is jmh's idea

jmh21586 said:
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.

318fekim · Nov 8, 2012

I put a set of old casters on a milk crate, it rolls under my bench with two more on top containing the most used.

PCO6 · Nov 9, 2012

I store mine on their side in a card file drawer.

Outlawmws · Nov 9, 2012

On a shelf with an earthquake bar above some of my hardware storage.

EDIT: I just noticed this pic was pre-earthquake bar; the bar (Old aluminum tent pole, but a shower curtain rod would work as well) is set so it is at the height of the bottom of the caps, and that oak facing is a lip screwed into a 1X shelf that holds the cans 3 deep. I can simply lift the can above the bottom lip, pull the bottom out, and it's out. Mostly the cans are the same color in a given row of three.

Sorry the Pics are slightly cut off; They are from this thread:

http://garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=117174&highlight=screws+nuts+bolts

SpeedyGee · Nov 9, 2012

Here my humble spray can shelving (it is custom made though)

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Heres how the shelves were welded up

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Tim The Tool Man · Nov 9, 2012

I use 5 or 6 old milk crates organized by color. They are kept in my overstuffed paint closet.

Cars&Classic · Nov 9, 2012

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hobie1dog · Nov 9, 2012

I really like the top one made out of simple 2x4's and dowel rods, being a single row deep so that you aren't moving cans around to see what is in back. Thanks for the thread, I'll add that to the list of things to do in the garage. I don't think it will ever be completed.

This is another one that a member on here posted up not long ago.

sfm1951 · Nov 9, 2012

I use pop bottle cases on a shelf. With the cans put in so you can see the colored caps. Steve

Rag Roc · Nov 9, 2012

I scored a flammable storage cabinet from a car dealer going out of business sale. It has the multi colored paint drips and spatters along with various dealer trunk emblems and stickers on the doors. After some thought, I waxed the doors and left it as purchased. They are available in many different sizes.

bullfrog123 · Nov 9, 2012

1x4 and some dowel rods. There is another shelf on top that you can't see.

jeffmoss26 · Nov 9, 2012

The whole top of my toolbox has spray cans. I guess some people use that space for sockets

Spray paint is in the top drawer of a file cabinet, along with paint brushes, scrapers, sandpaper and the like.

c7fx · Nov 9, 2012

I have a Sears professional tall cabinet and I'm amazed how many cans it holds. Too bad the legs of this cabinet are too flimsy, otherwise its a nice cabinet.
http://www.sears.com/craftsman-professional-tall-floor-cabinet-platinum/p-00915341000P

gregthor · Nov 9, 2012

I store the common ones on a cart so I can move it around and out of the shop when welding, grinding etc. The others are stored on a shelf in a box out of the way. My son and I made this cart together (Ok mostly him ... he works part time in a fab shop..and my other son painted it for me with paint he bought for a 3 wheel go Kart but never used.) This cart on wheels has been very handy for us in the shop.
Greg

Falcon67 · Nov 9, 2012

Paint guns, prep materials, paint, support stuff is all in here:
http://www.sears.com/craftsman-32in...p-00910134000P?prdNo=1&blockNo=1&blockType=G1

5lima30 · Nov 9, 2012

Nice ideas guys! Now I have yet ANOTHER winter project on my to do list :lol_hitti

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fr0mastaj · Nov 10, 2012

I use Racor racks that I scored from a deal here. I have rearranged the racks since, but you get the idea:

bts · Nov 11, 2012

Pretty basic. It all goes on one of the shelves.

fflintstone · Nov 11, 2012

I am paranoid about fire so I picked up a screaming deal on steel storage cabinets.
I have since moved the gas cans out to steel cabinets in my most remote outbuilding.

MegaManny009 · Nov 11, 2012

great ideas on this

stingry · Nov 11, 2012

Tim The Tool Man said:
I use 5 or 6 old milk crates organized by color. They are kept in my overstuffed paint closet.

Toolman
I don't mean to pick on you, BUT my paint storage used to look a lot like yours. It was a nice old WOODEN storage cabinet that had been in our barn for ages. I used it to store rattlecans, laquer thinner, acetone, old and new paint, reducers, a real "witches brew" of flammable liquids. The cabinet was located in the corner of my shop, just to the right of the small window to the right of the picture below.

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One day I was in the house and heard a loud "pop" and when I looked out the window, flames were shooting out of the small window located near the paint storage area. When all was said and done, this is what I had left:

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In the opinion of the State Fire Marshall, some type of "spontaneous combustion" took place in the paint storage cabinet that caused the fire. There was no other source of ignition near the area where the fire started. Consequently, this is what I now use for combustable storage in my new shop

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Yes, these cabinets are expensive and maybe overkill, but at least I feel a lot safer now.

What I learned thru all of this, DO NOT store paints and combustables in WOODEN cabinets. Cellulose (wood) is one of the prime ingredients necessary for spontaneous combustion to occur and it CAN OCCUR!! We will never know what happened in my shop but apparently two paints, chemicals, whatever leaked and combined with the wooden shelves, created the "perfect storm" and ignited!!

END OF SERMON!!!

Good Night
Steve

Mr.N · Nov 11, 2012

stingry said:
Yes, these cabinets are expensive and maybe overkill, but at least I feel a lot safer now.

Great point Steve, and thanks for sharing your real life experience.

Bib Overalls · Nov 11, 2012

I made this shelf for the spray can products that I use on a regular basis.

It is a grocery store type shelf that I trimmed and bent up in a sheet metal brake.

I keep the rest of my cans on an open metal shelf.

fflintstone · Nov 11, 2012

stingry said:
Toolman
I don't mean to pick on you, BUT my paint storage used to look a lot like yours. It was a nice old WOODEN storage cabinet that had been in our barn for ages. I used it to store rattlecans, laquer thinner, acetone, old and new paint, reducers, a real "witches brew" of flammable liquids. The cabinet was located in the corner of my shop, just to the right of the small window to the right of the picture below.

One day I was in the house and heard a loud "pop" and when I looked out the window, flames were shooting out of the small window located near the paint storage area. When all was said and done, this is what I had left:

In the opinion of the State Fire Marshall, some type of "spontaneous combustion" took place in the paint storage cabinet that caused the fire. There was no other source of ignition near the area where the fire started. Consequently, this is what I now use for combustable storage in my new shop

Yes, these cabinets are expensive and maybe overkill, but at least I feel a lot safer now.

What I learned thru all of this, DO NOT store paints and combustables in WOODEN cabinets. Cellulose (wood) is one of the prime ingredients necessary for spontaneous combustion to occur and it CAN OCCUR!! We will never know what happened in my shop but apparently two paints, chemicals, whatever leaked and combined with the wooden shelves, created the "perfect storm" and ignited!!

END OF SERMON!!!

Good Night
Steve

I have felt your pain and that is why my stuff is in a metal cabinet.

Wood burns, plastic melts and burns. Hell you don’t even remember what you had till a year or more after the settlement.

Burtonrider10022 · Nov 12, 2012

Ugh, this just makes me want a sprinkler system even more... For anyone building their garage in the future this should be a serious consideration.

aka Larry · Nov 20, 2012

I used jmh's idea and built my own:

muibubbles · Nov 28, 2012

i hate spray cans. no matter what method i try, i have too many and they take up/require way too much room =( havent found a good solution yet....

rharman · Nov 28, 2012

aka Larry said:
I used jmh's idea and built my own:

I like that a lot. I wonder if you could use metal 2x4 studs to frame it instead of welding. Just what I needed - another project.

Fyrme · Nov 28, 2012

Man stingry, that was a beautiful barn. I agree you never want to store flammable or corrosive chemicals on wood shelves.

I could not afford the real deal, but I think I came up with the next best thing. I got a hold of 2 Electrical Rain tight switchgear cabinets that had been gutted. It is heavy 10ga steel. It has vents on both doors at top and bottom but they have been closed off for fire reasons. I also want to eventually line the inside with 1/2" sheetrock, giving it a 1/2 hour fire rating up to 1200*. This is not for my safety but for the safety of the firefighters that hopefully NEVER have to put a fire out at my house.

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stingry · Nov 29, 2012

Fyrme said:
Man stingry, that was a beautiful barn. I agree you never want to store flammable or corrosive chemicals on wood shelves.

I could not afford the real deal, but I think I came up with the next best thing. I got a hold of 2 Electrical Rain tight switchgear cabinets that had been gutted. It is heavy 10ga steel. It has vents on both doors at top and bottom but they have been closed off for fire reasons. I also want to eventually line the inside with 1/2" sheetrock, giving it a 1/2 hour fire rating up to 1200*. This is not for my safety but for the safety of the firefighters that hopefully NEVER have to put a fire out at my house.

GREAT IDEA!! I wouldn't worry about the drywall, what you have is ideal for flammables storage: heavy gage steel to contain any combustion, minimal air to maintain combustion and no WOOD!! The only thing different on my purchased cabinets are the fact that they are double walled but are no where near 10 ga!

Wise decision!!

BFalfa · Nov 29, 2012

the blue cabinet above really looks nice,,,i like the galvanized tin for the outside as well!..

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