How do you store long sockets in your tool box?

[Sumboodie]

In the case on a shelf with seldom used tools in cases.

I have some legal filing cabinets? I think that's the name. The drawers are maybe 4ft wide. Work well for tools and were almost free from state surplus.

 

[impactims]

This is what I came up with.

Magnets inside the hutch…

 

[Professor Gascan]

Does anyone make something similar to drill bit cases where they are held laying flat in rows with hinges that swing up for removal?

Seems like it would still take up some space but you could get 2 or 3 sets in the same footprint as 1 laying down.

 

[CoreyB]

This is how I organized mine, used Ernst mag rails and mounted them to the drawer face stacked on each other. Had to pin the rails together to keep the top from tilting over.

 

[N8sToolz]

I have a hex/torx drawer with them all laying on the side. Everything long that's torx, hex and triple square. My short sockets live with the other sockets. I also keep some of them in tool rolls. I honestly don't use them very often.

 

[67King]

I only have a few that are REAL long, and those are lying down in the back corner of my socket drawer. The ones that are only a little too long to fit while standing up (I use the Carlyle socket rails that NAPA sells), I'll press out the bit, cut off enough to clear the drawer, and press it back in.