Short metal stock storage?

[slackdaddy1]

I made 2 racks on the back wall to hold lengths of metal (angle, tube, etc),, The racks are about 12' long and I put anything over 3' long up there.

Now I need ideas for storing under 30" lengths of angle, tube, rod, band, etc.
I keep stuff as short as 4-6" . Need ideas for "Off the floor" storage,, wall mount. Possibly 2 or 3 diff containers for diff lengths?
I was thinking metal barrels mounted to the wall?? (thats the best I could come up with)

Thanks for any pics or ideas?

 

[BillK]

I actually have three or four drawers full of real short stuff in an old tool box. ai can open the drawer and see what I have without having to dig. I know one guy who uses a barrel but by the time you root through it to find what you want you might as well just buy another piece

 

[LXCam]

I had several 1ft pieces of 2.5" square tubing left over from a project. So I tack welded them all together into a square and store all the short's in there at eye height. All though it started out super organized by sizes and types, that level of OCD is gone and replaced by flats, square and rounds stuffed in however it fits. Regardless, its damn handy having that **** around.

 

[slackdaddy1]

I actually have three or four drawers full of real short stuff in an old tool box. ai can open the drawer and see what I have without having to dig. I know one guy who uses a barrel but by the time you root through it to find what you want you might as well just buy another piece

Yeah,, I have the base of a cart filled,, and the time it takes to root through there,,,,,

BTW,, after posting, I found the 15 previous threads on my question. Preparing to be flamed now.

 

[LeeG]

I’ve posted this before, but here is my cart. I found some 14ga 4x4 tubing in the remnant section of my steel supplier. It worked perfectly for keeping the sections apart.



Here’s the image in Fusion.



I didn’t follow it exactly, but you get the idea.

Lee

 

[PoorUB]

I have a couple five gallon buckets with scraps.

 

[kwb]

5 Gallon buckets are great for stuff ~18-48"
Shorter than that ... I think the 4x4 tube on edge as "cubbies" might be good. I typically throw stuff that size into the scrap bin but now with adding a lathe - I can see a use for some round stock in short lengths like that.

 

[Nutria]

Just some lengths of perforated pipe hung from metal shelving for shorts.

 

[MushCreek]

I have some steel tote pans I use. One for rounds, one for shapes, such as angle, and one for bar stock. I use the short stuff all the time for small projects. Sometimes a 2" long piece of angle is just what you need.

 

[Oregon rock crusher]

For inside storage I end up stuffing short and not so short scraps in cubby's in and on my big bench. Rounds and tubes are mostly together near the lathe and bars and scraps of plate are near the other where they are quick to find for fab work and such. It doesn't look like a lot of bits in the pic but when they are not tucked in it is quite a pile. Ed.