huge assortment organizer!!!
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Garage5.9
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Pretty sure ebay has one hahhaha
4v shane
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not practical unless your storing 50,000 different varieties of condoms
Kevin54
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We had those at work and they slowly got rid of them. McMaster, Grainger, and a variety of other places have them. If loaded up with a lot of stuff, they do tend to be a little wobbly. They're made by Akro-Mills. Not cheap to buy, but cheaply made for what they cost. In all reality, you would be better making your own using Lazy Susan bearings and pick up your own parts drawers. I may be wrong on the price of this, but IIRC, it's pushing the $700 mark.
Vegaman_Dan
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I like the idea, but I'd leave the bottom 2 feet open, or perhaps slots for sandpaper, saw blades or similar. I certainly don't want to be bending over on my hands and knees to look at a bunch of small tiny drawers.
Making your own wouldn't be that difficult with angle iron, a lazy susan and multiple identical bins.
Making your own wouldn't be that difficult with angle iron, a lazy susan and multiple identical bins.
Get yourself an industrial cabinet like Vidmar, Lista, Equipto, Lyon, Nu-Era etc. Get one with short drawers that are loaded with dividers. You'll be able to store hundreds of lbs of hardware in each drawer, all organized, and you'll never wish for a plastic and thin steel cube like that again!
Although it looks cool, I'd hate to have that thing get top heavy and fall over. Can you imagine the mess it would probably make ? I think you would need to put some weight in the bottom drawers, then you'd be bending over all the time.
dawgee
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or if you have young children and they decide to give that sucker a good spin and watch all the drawers fly across the shop 
Kevin54
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That's one of the reason our shop got rid of them. there were a few times they got knocked over by someone spinning them around. You can imagine the mess when all of the drawers were filled with electrical connector and small pieces of tooling. They finally went with Lista's for the departments and had varieties of the red containers that went in them.
Dawgee...that was the other problem we had with them. The Bins themselves were cheaper, where the drawers just set beside drawers and no dividers in between. I think at one time everyone has had that style at home. The drawers would not set straight at times and other times, if you jerked on out a little fast it would pull the one out beside it.
Basically the complete thing, for the price, was a pain in the ***. I'm not sure whether they even use the Lista's at work now. I know when I was there last, they disposed of some of them, 5S took over our shop bigtime. There was nothing sadder, and bring a tear to your eye faster, than seeing a very large roll-off container loaded down with Lista cabinets, Fire cabinets, Chrome plates wire carts still in the new packaging, and the work tables with the metal frames and butcher block tops. And anyone that pilfered anything out of a container was fired.
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Outlawmws
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If you look closely at it, it is 12 std organizers screwed/pop-rivited/spot-welded together to make that unit. I agree it's WAY too tall for stability, but you could do the same thing with 4 or 8 yourself for far less than what Akro charges...
e-tek
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I use zip lock bags and clear boxes....but then I'm only doing a few cars at a time.
How many cars are you dismantling?
How many cars are you dismantling?
ddawg16
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Yea....no kidding......
As most above have said.....those parts cabinets are pretty much going away.
I perfer these guys....I can designate each one with a specific purpose...take it to the task...and I have what I need....
For example....I have one that is basically for picture hanging. My wife uses it all the time....has wall anchors...picture hooks....etc. Even a drill bit for the wall anchors. She grabs it....takes it to the task...when done, puts it back here.
sparky7
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i dunno from the sound of it you would be better off with zip lock bags and a back wall of shelving, we dismantle aircraft everyday at work and thats basically what we do - federal government says its good enuff organization who am i to argue. Actually we use roll around shelf carts, about 20 of them all labeled by registration numbers to the respective plane.
66HertzClone
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I did this when my Mustang was in pieces. I grouped the bags in boxes by areas as well, front suspension, engine brackets and accessories. I did see a guy who had a near full size outline of his project car on a wall in his garage. He had the bags thumb tacked to the area of the car they came from. Seemed like a huge waste of space to me but he liked it.