Lets see your NON Traditional tool storage setups.

[zkling]

Thought this may be a fun thread. Post pics or description of your NON traditional tool storage. Cannot be Craftsman, Snap On, Matco, Mac, Proto, Kenedy, Waterloo, etc.

Lista style boxes/cabinets do count as well as anything homemade. I know a few guys have the old map cabinet setups. Lets see them!!!

I personally have a 4 drawer vertical filing cabinet that I use to store bulky items. As well as a old 20 drawer metal card catalog to store cutting tools.

 

[2oolhound]

I personally have a 4 drawer vertical filing cabinet that I use to store bulky items. As well as a old 20 drawer metal card catalog to store cutting tools.

pictures or it didn't happen

 

[zkling]

pictures or it didn't happen

Post pics OR description of your NON traditional tool storage.

I chose the latter, but I will get pics later today. Although I think we all know what a 4 drawer black filing cabinet looks like.

 

[Mustang1167]

I also use filing cabinets for power tools and consumables. I stripped them down, painted and put castors on them. Hope others have some more creative ideas, I need another project.

 

[Simz144]

this!

 

[fury9]

I use two blue print cabinets for the stuff under 2" tall

 

[Gmonkee]

A two door gym locker with extra shelves added in. Less floor space and still a lot of storage on the cheap.
Very accessable to get what I'm looking for fast.

 

[DWise]

My 4 drawer Steelcase, painted Massy-Ferguson red with brass acents. Used to store all my Park bicycle tools.

 

[ken w.]

Do 5 gal. buckets and cardboard boxes count ? I have a bunch of these all over the garage.

 

[ganymede]

WW2 era ammo can.
It holds a pile of extra ratchets.
That's all I got right now. Everything else is standard tool box type stuff.

 

[ex-x-fire]

WW2 era ammo can.
It holds a pile of extra ratchets.
That's all I got right now. Everything else is standard tool box type stuff.

You know they used those as toilets during ww2, no sense in making a mess in your fox hole.

 

[ganymede]

You know they used those as toilets during ww2, no sense in making a mess in your fox hole.

Nice.
Is there anything you can't do with these things ?

 

[Spudland_Dave]

I scored some of these cabinets free...I say "These" I got one like the pic...2 other newer ones which are 60" Tall, and I gave my FIL 2 different ones as well. We muckled this baby into my basement workshop, i've had some tools in paper ream boxes for a while, now I've got a place for em. Used the Indoor/Outdoor carpeting for liners, real nice! Its really more of an overflow box now.
Quality wise, I put these cabinets on par with a KRL or Macsimizer...appearance wise, not so much. The 2 I have in the garage I would eventually like to paint SnapOn Red.

 

[machine_punk]

I don't quite know if this fits your definition, but I am building my version of 'custom pegboard' for tool storage. I call it the Reconfigurable Tool Rack and each of the panels are a Custom Tool Board. The idea is that each tool or set of tools has its own custom board. When I change the way I work, or what sorts of projects are the main projects, all I have to do is unscrew the board and move it to another place (that wouldn't happen often, perhaps every few years...
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You see three 'Custom Tool Boards' here (only one is holding tools right now...the center board, which is holding tooling for my pneumatic rivet squeezers). Eventually, I plan to have boards for all sorts of tools (brackets for pneumatic tools, screwdrivers, punches, riveting tools, etc.) It just takes an incredible amount of time to build them.

Here are some more random pictures of the system...
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Kev

 

[zuk123]

Here's what I'm using, they are "media storage" cabinets from a school library. They had plastic inserts to hold cassette tapes and film strips. The 2" drawers are on friction slides, full extension, and the deep drawers are on full extension ball bearing slides.

Some pix of the drawers-- not much organization yet.

The blueish drawers are two ikea bath vanities stacked on top of each other. (They came from the scratch and dent section for less than the cost of the drawer slides.) They are really white gloss laminate, but I left the blue protective film on because I prefer the blue They have wooden drawers on full extension, soft touch, self closing blum ball bearing sliders. I was going to just use the slides to build me own, but then had the realization that I could use the drawers as is.

I also love my "costco" bin storage system for bulk storage. IE, I just keep the heavy duty boxes from produce and stack them to hold cables, etc. I'll get a picture of that later.

zuk

(yeah I know, it's a mess....)