Bolt storage

[SBAG]

I’m thinking about buying a 27 inch US General bottom and top setup to use for bolts/small parts. In conjunction with the Schaller bins. Gridfinity and similar looks nice, but I really don’t want to get into another time and money **** with 3D printing.

Currently I have huge locally made antique(ish) hardware store bin setup that stores a bunch of air. Its gotta go.

 

[cannuck]

The comments on open bins and dust/dirt very true. For me, since I buy full box at a time for all sizes I keep one x 72 open bin rack for SAE gr5 NC and a second for SAE Gr8 UNF. For now I have my SAE NC SS in one bay of 2 ranks (30) of 4 x 7, open bins and my metric in another. I bought a set of 4 shelving units that hold 24" deep divisible bins and have one set up in home shop to hold everything else but I have as yet to find a supplier of bins that take rectangular and transverse dividers. When I find some, I will have IIRC 12 shelves 36" wide and 24" deep so will dramatically increase available storage - then 3x that when I get set up in new shop.

It might sound like I have too much storage, but what I find is most critical is ability to re-configure because stuff always seems to be changing. And there never seems to be enough.

 

[Hohn]

The different hex sizes on fasteners 8mm thread size and larger are sometimes a problem, sometimes not. And sometimes the flange head found on many JIS fasteners is essential to the application (and sometimes not).

For example, my Japanese motorcycles are littered with M6, M8, and M10 fasteners with flange heads on the bolts and 10, 12, and 14mm hexes. The most commonly available hardware has no flange and 10, 13, and 17mm hexes. Sometimes this matters quite a bit. In any case, it's very damn annoying to run across an M8 fastener that has been replaced and have to go back and grab a 13mm socket instead of the expected 12.

And JIS thread pitches 10mm and above are NOT the same as the others (or maybe you have enough ugga-duggas to not care...?). For example, the usual thread pitches for M10 and M12 Usian and Yurpian stuff are M10x1.5 and M12x1.75 (and this is the majority of hardware you'll find in hardware stores), and in JIS it's M10x1.25 and M12x1.25.

Bolt Depot - Metric Thread Pitch Table

boltdepot.com

I strongly prefer a flange head wherever possible. I wish hardware stores would stock them instead of straight hexes that usually need a washer.

I didn't realize the JIS has a finer standard pitch in M10 and M12, I'm still relatively new to JIS.

 

[evildky]

RK is great, but for much of the weird stuff I usually happen to need (JIS metric) they have little or nothing. They do have a nice selection of metric bulk hardware, so for M8 and below, where metric thread pitches are the same, they're great. Everyone's needs are different, of course.

The broader point is that there's a lot to be said for the tactic of letting someone else use their shelf space to stock stuff you need until you need it. If you live close to a Rural King, or another hardware or farm store that's open on weekends, then there's a lot of stuff you probably don't need to hoard yourself.

On the other hand, if you live in a remote 40 acre mountaintop compound 30 miles from the nearest gas station, then you'll want to keep a lot more general stuff and things lying around.

I live 1.5 miles from a Harbor Freight, so I'll let them use their shelf space for a lot of supplies and tools I might need. There's a sketchy bLowe's within two miles (however, they have a genius for Not Having Stuff) and a Home Despot about three miles away, so I can be pretty relaxed about my stock of house-related ****. For bigger projects, it's usually worth driving past both to the Meanard's about 20 minutes away. City/suburban living does have its advantages.

I'm a big fan of Adam Savage but the sortimo's I find a bit confusing. He has some of the metal parts drawers that he shows at the beginning which serve the exact same function, you can buy all the cabinets that already have the slide outs. The metal boxes would be more durable and have many configurations available or you can add your own like gridfinity. and by the time you buy the sortimo boxes drawer guides and the metal to make the drawer, not to mention the cabinet, I'm pretty sure the metal boxes would be cheaper.

I also find it a fun contradiction that he said "drawers are where things go to die" and has an obscene number of drawers, mostly for material such as the case with sortimo. Not everything can be first order retrieval.

 

[Sumboodie]

I'm a big fan of Adam Savage but the sortimo's I find a bit confusing. He has some of the metal parts drawers that he shows at the beginning which serve the exact same function, you can buy all the cabinets that already have the slide outs. The metal boxes would be more durable and have many configurations available or you can add your own like gridfinity. and by the time you buy the sortimo boxes drawer guides and the metal to make the drawer, not to mention the cabinet, I'm pretty sure the metal boxes would be cheaper.

I also find it a fun contradiction that he said "drawers are where things go to die" and has an obscene number of drawers, mostly for material such as the case with sortimo. Not everything can be first order retrieval.

What does he do for work? MythBusters has been done for a couple years i think?
He mostly annoyed me on that show. The other one with a stache was much more normal.

 

[SBAG]

What does he do for work? MythBusters has been done for a couple years i think?
He mostly annoyed me on that show. The other one with a stache was much more normal.

Industrial Light and Magic back in the day. Then Mythbusters. I assume he lives off that money plus residuals plus YouTube plus selling Sortimos and other merch.

 

[evildky]

What does he do for work? MythBusters has been done for a couple years i think?
He mostly annoyed me on that show. The other one with a stache was much more normal.

Not sure I'd call Jamie normal. both are a bit odd but still both talented builders.