How does your Socket top drawer look ?

[vettracer85]

How does your Socket top drawer look? I am looking for some ideas

 

[Sam'sAutoParts]

This is my HF cart. Just craftsman socket rails, and I left my GW 1/4 set in the original case with the lid removed.

 

[426 HEMI]

This is mine, I just finished a full toolbox reorganization. I used a mix of Ernst socket boss trays and MTS trays ( they are actually Snap on branded but made by Ernst and MTS ) plus a few Kincrome magnetic rails ( same as VIM Magrails) plus a few sets from Gearwrench on the rails they cam with.


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[426 HEMI]

I used the Ernst trays for all the deep sockets as the MTS trays are a little taller and I had clearance issues with the 1/2 deep sockets on them. With the Ernst trays the 1/2 deep sockets clear by a few millimetres. All my shallow sockets are on the MTS trays, red for Imperial and black for metric. The stainless tray ( Blue point by MTS) is all my hex and torx sockets.

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[Matt XYZ]

The Let's See Your Toolbox thread had a bunch of "top drawer Tuesday" posts about socket drawers. You may want to search that thread for ideas.

 

[Wyoming09]

Ernst rails here.

 

[m6z]

Here's mine.

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[Mr Ratchet]

 

[smuro04]

Top of my HF cart:



HF socket trays with the center dividers cut out. No worries about skipped sizes now.

 

[hobby_guy]

you guys that have them stored vertically - how can you tell them apart? I have mine on those metal rails you get from SO stored horizontally. Takes a lot more space, but you can tell immediately what the socket is (deep, semi-deep, standard), metric or fractional and its size.

 

[Bighead38]

you guys that have them stored vertically - how can you tell them apart? I have mine on those metal rails you get from SO stored horizontally. Takes a lot more space, but you can tell immediately what the socket is (deep, semi-deep, standard), metric or fractional and its size.

After a while you just know.

 

[iowa4x4dieselman]

Posting for placeholder. Will add picture this afternoon

 

[azchrisf]

Mine is stuffed full, but organized.
Chromes are all SnapOn, but impacts are all Sunex.

 

[Kasal]

I still have a lot to fill, but it is taking shape

 

[vettracer85]

you guys that have them stored vertically - how can you tell them apart? I have mine on those metal rails you get from SO stored horizontally. Takes a lot more space, but you can tell immediately what the socket is (deep, semi-deep, standard), metric or fractional and its size.

you can see the numbers on the rails. May sound a little crazy but you look up and down with your eyes and do not have to move your head left to right; when you are looking for a socket. I learned this trick as a surgical technologist and i just added this to the collision as my second job. Every seconds counts in the O.R. and your neck will thank you.

 

[lardy1]

I don't really have a "socket drawer" I only have two drawers deep enough to accept 1/2 drive deep sockets vertically and they are lower drawers. Not convenient for sockets. So I have my 1/4 drive and 1/2 drive in one drawer and my 3/8 in another.

 

[GTO]

54" wide and 30" deep of Hanson trays
...and ratchets too.

 

[Sliding T-Handle]

Mine doesn’t look as good as that one.


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[dr_clyde]

Not as organized as some guys on here.

My top drawer in my KRL 1023 is all my "normal sockets" (6 and 12 point), chrome and impact. This is also where my ratchets, extensions, torque wrenches and misc drive tools live. The sockets are mostly Snap-on, but there are some Mac, Williams, Blue-Point and Craftsman in there.


I keep all my hex and torx based tools down in another drawer, so that's where all my bit sockets are. Hex bits and torx bits of most drive sizes and flavors are here, and I also have my "weird" sockets in here like my tap sockets, E Torx, security hex, stuff like that.

 

[arms1970]

Mine is stuffed full, but organized.
Chromes are all SnapOn, but impacts are all Sunex.

Nice south main sticker

 

[4 FN 27]

Box in Car Shop. Metric and SAE Impacts in foreground and Chrome are SAE

Metrics on the left and 3/4 Drive on the right.

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Machine Shop Box. Metric and SAE.

There should be a Tool Box Organization Sticky created...

 

[greaseSlinger57]

Here’s my socket and ratchet drawers!

 

[f121]

Curious about why people keep sockets and ratchets in separate drawers? To me it makes more sense to have a drawer for a drive size, with ratchets, sockets and extensions in that drawer, and a different drawer for a different size.

 

[mrjaw14]

So you can open more drawers to admire your tool collection of course!

 

[vettracer85]

Curious about why people keep sockets and ratchets in separate drawers? To me it makes more sense to have a drawer for a drive size, with ratchets, sockets and extensions in that drawer, and a different drawer for a different size.

Depends on the growth. I work in a collision and classic restoration center of all makes and models. I found out having all my sockets standing on the top drawer gives me more room. I never thought i would have a dedicated extension drawer. lol It keeps me well organized and keeps sticky fingers away.

 

[Shootinok]

Man you guys have a LOT of sockets

Here’s mine

 

[Shane6377]

Mine are in the Harbor Freight trays for now. I actually like them better than the Hansen trays. I'm switching over to rails in the near future. The trays are great for keeping organized but they take up way too much room. They also have sizes marked for sockets I don't have.


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[kbeefy]

See if that works....

Last tool cart, have since upgraded to a bigger one.

HF organizers and a bunch of VIM magrails. I'll try to get a pic of the current setup tomorrow.

 

[Yarpo]

Something like this. Usually the Milwaukee tools and torque wrench don't go there, but I've been so busy and haven't put them away for the last two days. Its been like this for 4 months or so but the genius sockets in the blue tray kinda take up a lot of room, I just haven't found a tray that goes to 22mm (3/8") quite yet but I've not looked much

 

[Robbie B]

I don’t have a picture on my phone but up until about 2 weeks ago it looked like a damn bomb went off in it.[emoji1787]


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[Olafur]

You see, my tools don't get along too well.

One day the hex metric sockets started a rebellion in my socked drawer. They claimed they deserved better living quarters than the rest because they did most of the work while the rest spent their days sleeping. So with great effort they drove the SAE sockets downstairs, to a small drawer close to the basement. A bit racist if you ask me but the metrics got a point - the SAE sleep most days and only have to work few days per year.

Few days later this happened again, now against the 12 point royalty. It was sent from the prime realestate in the big socket drawer to a different one, smaller less accessible. Same reasons again. Then the hex metric workhorses got bored and insisted company of like minded tools. Ratchets, extensions etc. Now the former socket drawer if brim full of the self proclaimed workhorses and form an elite team so I can do majority of my work from that single drawer instead of shifting constantly between many to fetch the same tools again and again all day long.

My SAE wrenches and hex keys also lost ground and after some walkabout they finally found rest in the small drawer with the SAE sockets. Cramped together with little air!

So now I don't have a dedicated socket drawer! Turned out it was a mistake from work-flow point of view, I like this system much better -- long live the rebellion!

 

[Robbie B]

you guys that have them stored vertically - how can you tell them apart? I have mine on those metal rails you get from SO stored horizontally. Takes a lot more space, but you can tell immediately what the socket is (deep, semi-deep, standard), metric or fractional and its size.

When I was wrenching for a living I got to the point I could walk up to my box with my eyes closed, open the correct drawer and grab the tool I needed without looking. You always put it back where it came from and it’s never an issue.


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[426 HEMI]

My ratchets and extensions live in separate drawers because the socket drawer is full.

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[Flyordie]

My collection isn't near as complete as most of your's as mine is just a home box. I don't use them professionally so they see minimal use.

Most things I just use the standard steel socket rail.

 

[joel63]

You see, my tools don't get along too well.

One day the hex metric sockets started a rebellion in my socked drawer. They claimed they deserved better living quarters than the rest because they did most of the work while the rest spent their days sleeping. So with great effort they drove the SAE sockets downstairs, to a small drawer close to the basement. A bit racist if you ask me but the metrics got a point - the SAE sleep most days and only have to work few days per year.

Few days later this happened again, now against the 12 point royalty. It was sent from the prime realestate in the big socket drawer to a different one, smaller less accessible. Same reasons again. Then the hex metric workhorses got bored and insisted company of like minded tools. Ratchets, extensions etc. Now the former socket drawer if brim full of the self proclaimed workhorses and form an elite team so I can do majority of my work from that single drawer instead of shifting constantly between many to fetch the same tools again and again all day long.

My SAE wrenches and hex keys also lost ground and after some walkabout they finally found rest in the small drawer with the SAE sockets. Cramped together with little air!

So now I don't have a dedicated socket drawer! Turned out it was a mistake from work-flow point of view, I like this system much better -- long live the rebellion!

Very creative writing.

 

[zmotorsports]

Here’s my socket drawer. Bottom box top drawer.

Left half is SAE and right half is Metric.

 

[1foxracing]

All metric sockets

Some of my extra ratchets

 

[Catch_22]

This one is a bit dated and some minor changes have happend but its the last one I have offhand.

 

[Catch_22]

Box in Car Shop. Metric and SAE Impacts in foreground and Chrome are SAE
....
There should be a Tool Box Organization Sticky created...

Where did you get your socket trays? Please don't tell me you made them yourself unless you have a site that you are selling them on.

 

[BK13]

Some of my extra ratchets

What are the wood handle looking rotos, bottom right, Mark?