How do you store your air tools ?

[Jononon]

I've noticed even some of the most organised tool boxes have the deep 'drawer o' ****' at the bottom, where air tools are chucked at the end of the day, together with their accessories, to await 20 minutes of swearing while trying to reunite the two.

For now, mine live in their slowly disintegrating blow molded boxes, waiting for a better solution.

So, let's see/read about yours, please ?

 

[HoosierBuddy]

I got one of those. I fastened it to the wall above my compressor. It works great. $19.95 at genuinehotrod.com

Probably available elsewhere too.

Phil

 

[Lyaec350]

You can also make one of these with a piece of big angle, weld some coupler nuts to the bottom and then screw in a female quick release coupler to plug the air tools in to.

 

[KCHOTBOAT]

I have one tool box just for air tools.

 

[bobthecop]

I have one large drawer just for air tools, and chucks are in the rf corner.

 

[Charles (in GA)]

Using female air couplings to hang air tools seems kinda pricey, and the chance they disengage and fall and get damaged. My problem here is dirt daubers in the summer. I have to plug the male and female ends of all air hoses together and extension cords too. The air tools laying flat in a drawer are apparently safe, but I would not want to leave them hanging in the open as illustrated above. Mine lay flat in a medium depth drawer.

Charles

 

[72chevy]

Here's a project from Miller's site.
http://www.millerwelds.com/interests/projects/air-tool-rack/

 

[davestlouis]

I'm not worried about mud daubers, but my autistic 13 year old would have those tools disassembled and broken within hours. Everything I give a hoot about stays under lock and key, even motor oil, wax and polishes and the like.

 

[rowbow41]

Take a steel angle and some pieces of light steel plate long enough to weld on the inside of one of the angle legs with about about one inch sticking out past the leg. Use a spacer plate the thickness of the smaller diameter of the male fittings to maintain correct spacing while welding. To cover the fittings holes you can add a a piece of a long legged light angle and hinge it off of the upper angle leg to cover the fitting ends and help hold air tools in place. Attach to rack to the wall or whatever. Or you could buy those soft foam earplugs and cut them in 1/2, compress them and stick in the end of fitting. Another option I have heard of is to use golf tees.

 

[PhantomEB]

Mine all sit in the highest shallowest drawer of the rolling cabinet,that the big 1/2" impact will fit in, as thats the thickest gun I own ( 2 1/2s and 1 3/8th).

Then the never used 3/4" impact gun sits in the bottom waiting for me to get adapters to make it fit my air lines. I would like to make one of those air tool rack dealios but I cant stand clutter on the wall other than heavily used tools like hammers, wrenches and screwdrivers. Trying to follow this anyways.

 

[autoist]

I got one of those. I fastened it to the wall above my compressor. It works great. $19.95 at genuinehotrod.com

Probably available elsewhere too.

Phil

Phil - I looked all over that site & couldn't find it - can you help?

 

[timgr]

I got one of those. I fastened it to the wall above my compressor. It works great. $19.95 at genuinehotrod.com

Probably available elsewhere too.

Phil

Looks like a test lead holder http://www.pomonaelectronics.com/pdf/d4408_2708_1508_1_01.pdf

The test lead holders are less than $12, so you pay a premium when it's made at the right spacing for air tools.

 

[Jononon]

Phil - I looked all over that site & couldn't find it - can you help?

It's here.

I quite like that solution, but I'm a bit wary of the risk of knocking them on the floor. Using couplers would be reasonably secure, but, even with cheapo ones, it quickly gets very spendy.

Hmm

 

[smooth72]

I just drilled a hole and placed a bolt to the coupler. Every time I get a new air tool I add a coupler that way I know one is missing if one is empty.

 

[Red Green]

I just drilled a hole and placed a bolt to the coupler. Every time I get a new air tool I add a coupler that way I know one is missing if one is empty.

What did you use for the bolt to the coupler into the pipe threads?

 

[Jononon]

Anybody got a source (online, ideally, as I'm in Yurp - although I could fill my luggage allowance with tools, and keep the TSA on their toes, again) for lots of cheap female couplers ? I think that smooth72 has my favourite solution so far

 

[milkovich]

Cheap female couplers... It's been my experience that "cheap female couplers" are more trouble than they're worth but the "cheapest female couplers" hang out on the bad side of town... around Harbor Freight warehouses and the like.

 

[smooth72]

What did you use for the bolt to the coupler into the pipe threads?

I just got a fine thread bolt and cross thread them on work great like a lock nut or lock bolt

 

[rsanter]

none of my tools ever get tossed in the box. all of my tools are layed out in the drawers in a organized fashion. most the drawers have foam that is cut out for the tool to fit in

bob

 

[wythors]

Take a steel angle and some pieces of light steel plate long enough to weld on the inside of one of the angle legs with about about one inch sticking out past the leg. Use a spacer plate the thickness of the smaller diameter of the male fittings to maintain correct spacing while welding.

Why would you go through all that when you can get this

for twenty bucks?

 

[Red Green]

Why would you go through all that when you can get this

for twenty bucks?

Their is more pride is saying look what I built instead of look what I bought

 

[Darren M.]

18 guage, 16 maybe? A smooth hand, a decent nibbler, and a brake, and that could be made pretty easily. Less than $20 (with time included) I doubt. But, could be made all the same. Me personally, I'll pay the $20 and save the time.
Just my 2¢.

 

[Palf]

I have one tool box just for air tools.

Ditto

My original tool chest, a small Sears one, and some drawers in the cabinet next to it are used for my air tools.

 

[Jay H 237]

I keep mine in the bottom drawer of my main toolbox plus in a large plastic toolbox that I have too. The large plastic toolbox is strictly for air tools.

 

[Ray in Kingwood]

I keep mine in a deep drawer

 

[RAYJAY]

i use one of these on my tool cart from mechanics time savers

 

[smooth72]

Just a update. I am a tool junky.

 

[ZRX61]

Mine are spread around 3 drawers:
The paint guns etc are in one drawer, another holds the inline sander, DA & other autobody airtools & a drawer in my *go to* rollaway holds the drills grinders, 3/8 IR Ti rattle gun, air chisel & cut off tools etc.

 

[stricht8]

Personally, I don't think that you have enough angle grinders.

Just a update. I am a tool junky.

 

[punkabilly136]

my compressor has a bracket off of it that lets me hang my tools off of it

 

[smooth72]

The grinders are the results from my welding, not a great welder, but a hell of a grinder. I have different things on each grinder such as flap, grits, wire brush etc.

 

[russlaferrera]

smooth72, Just to let you know the disks on the angle grinders are replaceable. You don't need to buy new grinders. LOL. You have a very orderly storage set up there.

 

[Vinko]

I like the idea of a separate drawer for air tools at the end of the day, but I've got them in "holsters" attached to steel support poles in my warehouse. I made the holsters out of neoprene fabric. They are used on one side of an aisle, and the hoses go up across the ceiling, and down toward the other side where the Air compressor is.

 

[smooth72]

smooth72, Just to let you know the disks on the angle grinders are replaceable. You don't need to buy new grinders. LOL. You have a very orderly storage set up there.

Don't tell my wife, then I could not buy new toys, I mean tools

 

[dps]

Smooth72, that is a nice display of a nice collection!

 

[deadbird]

Personally, I don't think that you have enough angle grinders.

Yeah, looks like you need a red one. Actually, I'm envious.