Finally! nut/bolt/electrical/small parts storage!!

[jpcjguy]

These rarely hit marketplace in my area and on those rare occasions I am too late. Picked these up the other day for $100 each. Some are brand new and never used and the rest are mix of adjustable and fixed bins. I scraped and "goo gone" the sticker labels and bought a pack of 2x5.5" magnetic labels where The labels slide behind a clear plastic film. Then I created a google doc template to print out 8 at a time once I figure out how I want to organize my stuff. .
I think I did ok!

 

[jack stand]

$300?
You deserve the "you ****" award for the month!
Congratulations on your find.

 

[Stuart in MN]

Nice! The adjustable dividers will be handy.

 

[Skyman]

Great score. I'd love to have that set-up.

 

[MikeC55]

Me too!

 

[nadogail]

When a former employer changed their hardware supplier from Mechanic’s Choice to Bowman the Mechanics Choice distributor left behind their bins and drawers. I was able to get some of them just by asking politely. They now reside in my Workshop.

A simple Please and Thank You have been good ways to acquire some really nice things.

 

[ATC]

You ****. Nice score!

 

[nadogail]

When a former employer changed their hardware supplier from Mechanic’s Choice to Bowman the Mechanics Choice distributor left behind their bins and drawers. I was able to get some of them just by asking politely. They now reside in my Workshop.

A simple Please and Thank You have been good ways to acquire some really nice things.

Thanks

 

[jack stand]

When a former employer changed their hardware supplier from Mechanic’s Choice to Bowman the Mechanics Choice distributor left behind their bins and drawers. I was able to get some of them just by asking politely. They now reside in my Workshop.

A simple Please and Thank You have been good ways to acquire some really nice things.

I got this rack that was fully stocked from a Lowe's that was moving a 1/4 mile to a new, larger building.

For a couple weeks I'd poke in there for the clearance sale (see the clearance pricing).


The kicker is it's all SS!
After going home with odd and ends for several weeks I asked for a manager about buying the whole set up with inventory.
Got it for $900 with unopened boxes of inventory and an older "tilt out" display that was on a pallet "in the back" also full of SS hardware.


I haven't even organized these for display. At the time I would have paid almost that much just for the bins!
I believe that they were changing supplier and this was just small potatoes in they're much larger view of things.

 

[nadogail]

You can open your own Hardware Store.

 

[mattthemuppet]

There is something really special about never needing to buy any nuts or bolts

 

[mikedodge]

Cool! Those metal pull out ones pop up here pretty regularly but people want a small fortune for them even empty.

 

[nadogail]

I got this rack that was fully stocked from a Lowe's that was moving a 1/4 mile to a new, larger building.

For a couple weeks I'd poke in there for the clearance sale (see the clearance pricing).


The kicker is it's all SS!
After going home with odd and ends for several weeks I asked for a manager about buying the whole set up with inventory.
Got it for $900 with unopened boxes of inventory and an older "tilt out" display that was on a pallet "in the back" also full of SS hardware.


I haven't even organized these for display. At the time I would have paid almost that much just for the bins!
I believe that they were changing supplier and this was just small potatoes in they're much larger view of things.

With a trove like that you can open your own hardware store

 

[fourjeepin]

I got this rack that was fully stocked from a Lowe's that was moving a 1/4 mile to a new, larger building.

For a couple weeks I'd poke in there for the clearance sale (see the clearance pricing).


The kicker is it's all SS!
After going home with odd and ends for several weeks I asked for a manager about buying the whole set up with inventory.
Got it for $900 with unopened boxes of inventory and an older "tilt out" display that was on a pallet "in the back" also full of SS hardware.


I haven't even organized these for display. At the time I would have paid almost that much just for the bins!
I believe that they were changing supplier and this was just small potatoes in they're much larger view of things.

NICE! I got mine from a Home Depot that was moving. $800 for all of the bins ($50 per vertical stack). I was so excited about it and then they told me that included the hardware. The upper bins were packed with maybe a thousand of the little bags of hardware; lowers had loose or boxed hardware.