Household items re-purposed for garage use.

[ket-tek]

The cake pans are awesome!

 

[5lima30]

An old toaster oven for drying welding rods. Walmart kitchen shelf liner (the grippy stuff) for lining tool boxes. Once soiled throw it away and replace. A truckers binder tightening tool = cheater bar.

 

[ket-tek]

No pictures, but in my grandpa's old tractor shed he had saved the old glass baby food jars and screwed the lids to the bottom of a shelf, so you could just twist on and of the jar quickly, he had like 100 or so with random hardware in the them and being clear glass you could see everything at once, but the stuff inside didn't rust or get dusty being in an open front 3 sided building with a dirt floor.. Back then you repurposed or reused everything..

 

[NUTTSGT]

I'm bringing this back from the dead.

Cake pans. . . This is where the ash drops down and I have to scoop it out. It dawned on me to buy a cake pan, put in down there and pull it out to dump it every few days. I used to do it every few weeks to scoop it out but I think this is going to make life easier.

 

[SweetD]

Along the lines of cake pans, but the disposable aluminum pans...I save every one of them from food items that we either bring to someone's house, or someone brings to our house. Clean them, and they are great temporary "trays" for various work.

It's not a big deal, but I think of how many of these things I have just thrown away in the past. Reduce, re-use, recycle...!



Dave

 

[HTGTS350]

Jars and cans, I have hundreds of them for small(and medium) parts storage, the cake trays are also excellent.

 

[bob from indiana]

I have a large cookie tray that I put tools in when I work under a car. It keeps sockets from rolling away. I use tuna cans for small parts.

 

[Jgoss]

Peanut butter jars, luckily I have a 2 and 4 year old so I get lots of them. They are perfect for holding hardware. They also work well with paints and solvents.

 

[PCO6]

Towels for fender covers. I sewed Velcro straps to places where I can clip them on to convenient items under the hood.

Two milk crates screwed together also make a good platform to stand on.

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[wrench409]

At my work I always used a standard fiberglass food tray when working at any wheel position on a truck during a brake job or wheel seal. Easy to keep all the parts in one place, easy to carry to the parts washer, and easy to carry the tools back to my toolbox. And the added bonus of less cleanup of the bay afterwards.

Carried the practice over to my home vehicle work.

These are available just about anywhere. We got several at a local school cafeteria sell off.

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[sberry]

This was the base for a cook top. It was flimsy added a few sheet metal screws and a couple light angles and some wheels.

 

[sberry]

Welding booth with cabinet from washer dryer set.

 

[Cougar]

Kitchen tong, wife calls it a wiener pincher, comes in handy.

Used it to fish a cracked gas line out of gas tank on the rider.

 

[DIC]

A fry basket in the parts washer for small parts

 

[BFBOB]

VERY ANNOYING ... that I didn't think of it! Thrift shop, 50cents

The cake pans are awesome!

 

[Vegaman_Dan]

Hanging a paper towel holder is common sense, but where do you keep your cleaning bottle of solvent? I've gotten into the habit of keeping towels and cleaner where they need to be- under all sinks, at the ferret cage, and in the garage in a prominent and easy spot to grab. Make cleaning convenient and easy and you'll be far more likely to do it when the mess happens instead of waiting until later.

Bottle holder is just a plastic food container bolted to a couple of right angle brackets mounted to the wall so it's solid and keeps the cleaner bottle in easy reach.

 

[Vegaman_Dan]

VERY ANNOYING ... that I didn't think of it! Thrift shop, 50cents

I'd be tempted to make that arm rotate to the side to clear the space if needed. I've been trying to figure out a way to get lights under the garage door rails and this gives me some ideas. My first impulse is to mount a fluorescent shop light, but awfully exposed. A couple of metal shade lamps like that would be a nice touch instead.

More projects. Of course I need more stuff to do.

 

[sberry]

Web use pie tins on occasion for light reflectors. Dump a little oil over a sponge cut to fit the tuna can to daub oil on bolts and lug nuts, flip it over on occasion to refresh it.

 

[plow]

Kitchen tong, wife calls it a wiener pincher, comes in handy.

Used it to fish a cracked gas line out of gas tank on the rider.

That reminds me.......My bil and I were working on a project one day. It was hot enough that I took off my shirt. when I wasn't paying attention, He clamped one of those grabby things ( the ones you push a syringe type button and the three claw things come out that are made for picking up dropped widgets in hard to reach places) on my tiddy ******.

 

[rick carpenter]

I grab about every other mason or glass jar from the kitchen. I have little misc things stored on some, all little bitty parts from taken apart projects in some, clean misc sockets in one, sockets in molasses water in one, atf in another, etc.

 

[boiler7904]

Plastic baby food container with lid to keep router bits from bouncing around tool box.

Solo plastic cups & regular measuring cup for mixing various fluids.

Old toothbrushes for cleaning small parts.

We bought a rolling kitchen island online 6 or 7 years ago for our old house. House that we are moving into now has a bigger kitchen with no place for it so it will be re-purposed into the garage though I'm not completely sure what I'll use it for yet.

Bought a stainless steel steam table pan, built a wood frame around it, and use it as a lift out shelf in my deck box for grill tools while having room for storage below.

An old plastic sandbox scoop is perfect for cleaning the ash catch tray on my charcoal grill. Thinking that its replacement will be metal to help move lit charcoal around.

 

[scotty t]

the wire rack from an oven or wire shelf from an old fridge, set on top of your garage garbage can makes a great place to scrape grunge off of old cars parts. all the scrapin's just fall through into the can. same for the degreaser.

 

[adpprop]

This is one of my portable welding tables / portable workbenches. I have a few of them but this one is the heavy duty one. I could probably stand on it (but never have). The other ones I use now and again but are definitely not as heavy duty as this one.