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lilscorpion
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Moving In - Tooling Bench
Got (mostly) moved into the tooling bench as well. After having moved in I'm not totally sure why I'm calling it the tooling bench. It would more appropriately be named the hardware bench. These two drawers are nearly the same since you last saw them. Both were designed to the specific depth of the two sizes of view-tainers that I use.
In these drawers are screws, cabinet hardware, and other misc hardware that I tend to have in bulk.
The rest of the organization will be done with plastic containers. For consistency, I decided to go with the festool containers that come in various sizes. I ordered kind of blindly making assumptions on quantities.
After removing them from the wrappers I, for a moment, felt like maybe I ordered way too much.
I started with my electrical drawer. The quantity of an item dictated the size of container to use. Seemed to end up fairly well. There's no way that they're the right size if I have to buy a package more of any one thing though. This setup is currently perfect for what I have not what I'll have over time. I'll have to come back to it when there's a good reason.
Second electrical drawer has mostly plugs, outlets and outlet covers. Unfortunately this shows just how many 3ph 220 plugs I ended up with after moving out of the business.
Similar outcome with the plumbing drawer only I had room for expansion.
This is one of the super long drawers. The way the MDF ruler holders work creates a bunch of waste and makes it difficult to get at most of them without moving one of the others. Once I get time I'll cut some custom kaizen foam inserts for this drawer which will make all of them easily accessible.
This drawer, though it looks mostly empty today, will be where I keep all of my aluminum fixtures and smaller measuring utilities. It looks like the drawer will be barely used however I actually have a mess of fixtures that aren't in here today. I'll do a writeup just on organizing this and the other ruler drawer when I get to them.
Next came the sorting of my hardware drawer(s). I had to take everything out and then figure out what I did and didn't want in these drawers. I decided to put everything 1/2-inch and smaller in these drawers (and smaller than 13MM in metric).
I'll save you from the time it took to go through the various buckets and bins but, in the end, everything became right there in front of me. No more heading to the hardware store for something I think I don't have only to find 25 of them later the same day. Even though I thought I had way too many bins, I turned out not to have enough. I did choose to continue forward with the medicine bottles for the smaller hardware because it had worked so well in the past and the containers were already clearly labeled.
Middle drawers are still a work in progress. Far drawer is the large view-tainer drawer from earlier in this post. The middle drawer has my various parallels sets for milling. The closest drawers a temporary staging spot for most of the tools that will end up going above in the rack once I re-macihne the tops.
As I was loading the top middle drawer I kinda had an epiphany. Most of what I was putting in this drawer was "small stuff". To take full advantage of the drawers I found myself stacking things on top of each other which defeated the purpose of the depth of the drawer (felt wasteful). What was worse is when I closed the drawer, the stuff shifted and ends dup in piles.
So I had a choice - either make dividers to control everything or do something different...it was then I had my next idea which caused me to pull everything back out. I ordered some parts and plan to implement it this weekend.
Until then, here's what the drawers look like now. Far drawer is the small view-tainer drawer from earlier. Middle and now the right two drawers have a substantial amount of room to grow into
I now have about 75% of what I'd planned to move, moved.
Got (mostly) moved into the tooling bench as well. After having moved in I'm not totally sure why I'm calling it the tooling bench. It would more appropriately be named the hardware bench. These two drawers are nearly the same since you last saw them. Both were designed to the specific depth of the two sizes of view-tainers that I use.
In these drawers are screws, cabinet hardware, and other misc hardware that I tend to have in bulk.
The rest of the organization will be done with plastic containers. For consistency, I decided to go with the festool containers that come in various sizes. I ordered kind of blindly making assumptions on quantities.
After removing them from the wrappers I, for a moment, felt like maybe I ordered way too much.
I started with my electrical drawer. The quantity of an item dictated the size of container to use. Seemed to end up fairly well. There's no way that they're the right size if I have to buy a package more of any one thing though. This setup is currently perfect for what I have not what I'll have over time. I'll have to come back to it when there's a good reason.
Second electrical drawer has mostly plugs, outlets and outlet covers. Unfortunately this shows just how many 3ph 220 plugs I ended up with after moving out of the business.
Similar outcome with the plumbing drawer only I had room for expansion.
This is one of the super long drawers. The way the MDF ruler holders work creates a bunch of waste and makes it difficult to get at most of them without moving one of the others. Once I get time I'll cut some custom kaizen foam inserts for this drawer which will make all of them easily accessible.
This drawer, though it looks mostly empty today, will be where I keep all of my aluminum fixtures and smaller measuring utilities. It looks like the drawer will be barely used however I actually have a mess of fixtures that aren't in here today. I'll do a writeup just on organizing this and the other ruler drawer when I get to them.
Next came the sorting of my hardware drawer(s). I had to take everything out and then figure out what I did and didn't want in these drawers. I decided to put everything 1/2-inch and smaller in these drawers (and smaller than 13MM in metric).
I'll save you from the time it took to go through the various buckets and bins but, in the end, everything became right there in front of me. No more heading to the hardware store for something I think I don't have only to find 25 of them later the same day. Even though I thought I had way too many bins, I turned out not to have enough. I did choose to continue forward with the medicine bottles for the smaller hardware because it had worked so well in the past and the containers were already clearly labeled.
Middle drawers are still a work in progress. Far drawer is the large view-tainer drawer from earlier in this post. The middle drawer has my various parallels sets for milling. The closest drawers a temporary staging spot for most of the tools that will end up going above in the rack once I re-macihne the tops.
As I was loading the top middle drawer I kinda had an epiphany. Most of what I was putting in this drawer was "small stuff". To take full advantage of the drawers I found myself stacking things on top of each other which defeated the purpose of the depth of the drawer (felt wasteful). What was worse is when I closed the drawer, the stuff shifted and ends dup in piles.
So I had a choice - either make dividers to control everything or do something different...it was then I had my next idea which caused me to pull everything back out. I ordered some parts and plan to implement it this weekend.
Until then, here's what the drawers look like now. Far drawer is the small view-tainer drawer from earlier. Middle and now the right two drawers have a substantial amount of room to grow into
I now have about 75% of what I'd planned to move, moved.
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