Help organizing the tool box

[Wuaname]

Here are some before and after pics of tools in the new HF 44" box. The after isn't the finished product, really just the start and I know I have quite a ways to go. I got some organizers from HF yesterday but was really only able to use the one for sockets. I got some drawer organizers but doesn't work for me. I'm going to want to organize most of the drawers, as I don't want the tools just loose in there rolling around.

Any ideas or suggestions? I just don't want to throw organizers randomly and the foam looks awesome but I don't think it will work for me, ie if I get a new tool and and have to reorganize my box.

Before

Some after shots coming...not really after but in between lol.

 

[Wuaname]

This is after some organizing last night, sorry about the picture quality.

 

[Rakoprtr]

Whats that hose for


Sent from my shop cuz I practically live there

 

[Wuaname]

Whats that hose for


Sent from my shop cuz I practically live there

Back in the dayyyyyy, that was used to fill your ac compressor in the car with freon. I used to use it on my former 87 Grand National and a few other cars from the 70s and 80s.

I don't even know if they still sell freon to consumers lol

 

[cheechi]

What's in the top drawer? I would use it for sockets if you are going to stand them up. The HF 44" drawers you should be able to stand up most deep 1/4 & 3/8 sockets, even impacts, in any drawer. the 1/2 you would probably need them in the top anyway. I would not use that socket organizer you bought from HF. Get the trays instead. Both waste a little space, but the trays waste way less than that.

This wrench organizer. What I did was cut off the hex parts to have some flat space for other tools. I eventually cut off the other parts of it and just kept the two main wrench sections with the rest flat. I like it better this way.

Those T handles are really not put in an efficient way. Do they have a stand? Maybe store them in the stand on top of the box. I tried it with their display, the HF T handles in the stand are too tall for any drawer in the 44" box. You could lean them tall wise in the bottom deep drawer (really either deep one should be within 1/2" of each other) instead of the power tools; I bet most of those power tools would fit in one of the smaller drawers. Search around; somewhere in the forum maybe is a better way to store T handles though.

I bet you could free another drawer and a half just from getting a pliers rack and putting those other wrenches you have laying flat, into the tray insert. The stubbies don't really fit in there from the look of it.

 

[Wuaname]

What's in the top drawer? I would use it for sockets if you are going to stand them up. The HF 44" drawers you should be able to stand up most deep 1/4 & 3/8 sockets, even impacts, in any drawer. the 1/2 you would probably need them in the top anyway. I would not use that socket organizer you bought from HF. Get the trays instead. Both waste a little space, but the trays waste way less than that.

This wrench organizer. What I did was cut off the hex parts to have some flat space for other tools. I eventually cut off the other parts of it and just kept the two main wrench sections with the rest flat. I like it better this way.

Those T handles are really not put in an efficient way. Do they have a stand? Maybe store them in the stand on top of the box. I tried it with their display, the HF T handles in the stand are too tall for any drawer in the 44" box. You could lean them tall wise in the bottom deep drawer (really either deep one should be within 1/2" of each other) instead of the power tools; I bet most of those power tools would fit in one of the smaller drawers. Search around; somewhere in the forum maybe is a better way to store T handles though.

I bet you could free another drawer and a half just from getting a pliers rack and putting those other wrenches you have laying flat, into the tray insert. The stubbies don't really fit in there from the look of it.

The long top drawer on the bottom cabinet I was going to put the hammers & pry bars, but pretty much empty, so I can move the sockets up there maybe.

I've had a problem finding a rack to store the t handle allen wrenches. Will search archives in a bit, but so far google and amazon had nothing to be able to store the t handle allen wrenches inside a drawer

Pliers? Ordering the Plyworx rack, which should eat up less space. It looks like I am going to be doing some cutting on the socket rack and get more space in drawer, or get the socket trays possibly.

 

[cheechi]

If you have any interest in the side locker for it, I would put the pry bars in it if they have to be locked up. From the look of things, this is your home garage? Pegboard is the right answer for storing hamemrs & pry bars if you have the wall space. They really abhor drawer space efficiency unless you only have 1 or 2 of them.

The side locker could be the answer for the T handles once you get a rack too.

 

[Wuaname]

Good idea on the use for the side locker.... Yes, my home garage. It's a one car (motorcycle) garage, so I'm trying to find a storage for everything vs a peg board etc.

While I have had tool boxes for ages, this is my first go at having them organized other than "all metric in one drawer" , "all screw drivers in another drawer", etc lol