How do you store your corded power tools?

[wolfhawk73]

I bought three document shelves from our church yard sale for $15. They were case-built in the early 70's out of 3/4" plywood (top, bottom, sides, and back), are four feet tall each, about a foot wide and a foot deep, and have removable 1/4" plywood dividers (in slots) every 3 inches. I mounted them horizontally about head-high over my workbench, so all the dividers are now vertical. I just removed the dividers as needed to make space for nearly all my power tools and other shop supplies. I left enough dividers to keep things from falling over. If a tool wouldn't fit I stacked it on top. So much easier just to grab and go now versus digging in the old filing cabinet I used to use. I also despise most blow-mold cases, so this let me throw away about a dozen. Small stuff like compressor parts or power tool accessories go in Plano 3600's, and those fit in the smallest slots beside whatever tool they're for.

Anybody in Eastern NC need a filing cabinet?

 

[Flatcapped]

I'm in the "coil the cord, then into a drawer" camp. For reasonable-length cords I use velcro cable ties, and tools with super long cords (and also my extension cords) get ball bungees. I like that I can undo everything and the tie stays with the cord during use. Would love to find something more like a 3M dual lock (the velcro hook and loop frays and attracts saw dust, etc.), but haven't seen anything in a double-sided or cable tie arrangement.

 

[metalmagpie]

A lot of what I do is welding and/or cleaning of old machines, so my angle grinders are out on a rack behind my welding table. I coil the cords the way they do it in recording studios, where they have lots and lots of cords to worry about.

Most of the rest of my power tools live in their toolbox or some box that will hold them, underneath my 16' workbench. I built that with an 11" space underneath it to hold all those damn Makita and Milwaukee cases.

metalmagpie