HappyHighwayman
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Please show me photos of your home workshop/garage/pegboard/tool organization thanks!
Show me your tool board / organization system in your garage/workshop
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Mine is sort of a hodgepodge of different methodologies. When I moved into my house there was some shelving hung from the ceiling that's about 18" deep and I'm still determining how best to use them. In the meantime I just drive a screw into it every now and again to hang hand tools like hacksaws, chisels, squares, etc. I use the akro-mils bins for small parts storage for screws, nuts & other fasteners.
Larger handheld power tools get stored in milk crates under my assembly/outfeed table, when they don't just live on whatever horizontal surface they were last used near.
My material storage is a trainwreck. The less said about that, the better. And I'm getting to the point again where I should build a rack for storting rattle cans
Larger handheld power tools get stored in milk crates under my assembly/outfeed table, when they don't just live on whatever horizontal surface they were last used near.
My material storage is a trainwreck. The less said about that, the better. And I'm getting to the point again where I should build a rack for storting rattle cans
check auction houses that liquidate businesses. it might be 3x the size you want but sometimes they have the smaller ones.
HappyHighwayman
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Thanks a lot guys I'd love to see some photos
cheez
Master Of The Darkside
I like using pegboard for hanging consumables and parts, but I prefer toolchests for tools. The bigger deal is the in-drawer organization- getting the right organizers that work well and last is a PITA. The other secret- labels. LABEL ALL TEH THANGS!
https://imgur.com/a/mD7Or7t
https://imgur.com/a/mD7Or7t
gixxerjeff
Dogs best friend
Staple guns, cheez
You need more staple guns.
You need more staple guns.
Shelving and boxes is horrible... for me. Drawers. Old file cabinets work similar to boxes on shelves but are way easier to access the garbage in them. They also have built in label holders (hi5 for cheez)
Pegboard is kinda amazing but kinda evil. The hooks fall out too easyily when extracting items from them, and yes there are ways to secure them but that takes some of the flexibility of pegboard away. I mean what if I get a new tool? I'll have to rearrange!
Pegboard is kinda amazing but kinda evil. The hooks fall out too easyily when extracting items from them, and yes there are ways to secure them but that takes some of the flexibility of pegboard away. I mean what if I get a new tool? I'll have to rearrange!
HappyHighwayman
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I just want to be able to actually find everything. Keeping stuff in boxes has been a terrible method
cheez
Master Of The Darkside
None of those are redundant... well ok, 2 are kinda... but yeah, you can never have enough guns, no matter the variant.
1- Arrow T25 stapler (rounded heads)
1- Arrow T50 stapler (square heads)
1- Cable-Tacker stapler (shouldered staples with a rounded wire path)
1- Stanley T50 "low effort" stapler (square heads, for upholstery mostly.)
Pegboard is the goddamn devil. If I didn't already have a bunch I'd probably pull it all out. The floor behind my toolboxes is littered with hooks that have fallen from the pegboard and aren't worth retrieving.
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Something about pegboard doesn't sit right for me as actual tool storage. But I love them visually.
Always be knolling
Bay Arean
Well-known member
You end up getting the T 50 and the T25 when you deciding to be a coax or various wiring DIYer. I know fro experience. I think I have three myself.
Either that or he likes to staple down his victims two-handed. Nyuk.
But as for Cheez and his tool chest array, we are not worthy. Look at them red dividers!!! And the extra ginormous labels of what they are!!! Oh man. He's not even old and blind like me, I think, yet.
He'll probably get it just perfect the day before the fatal heart attack. Well, that would be my kind of luck anyway. Some lucky guy will be getting full tool chests at dead guys garage sale, when the widow sells them for a pittance....sigh.....I;m givin mine to my son, the mechanical one.
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Rando shoutout for this digital caliper holder I found on Thingiverse. One of the hangars bumps the off button on my calipers so if I remember to put it back where it belongs in my office, it turns them off to save the battery.
Which actually brings up a separate topic - I have two workspaces that have different needs for tool organization: my upstairs office, which is for photo/video/broadcasting gear, as well as my electronics workbench, 3d printing, and vinyl cutter. It's also my home office.
The basement is for the bigger tools - CNC router, laser cutter, table saw, miter saw and drill press.
Which actually brings up a separate topic - I have two workspaces that have different needs for tool organization: my upstairs office, which is for photo/video/broadcasting gear, as well as my electronics workbench, 3d printing, and vinyl cutter. It's also my home office.
The basement is for the bigger tools - CNC router, laser cutter, table saw, miter saw and drill press.
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cheez
Master Of The Darkside
You think I'll get it perfect... thank you for your confidence, that's high praise. It might be what gives me the heart attack...
Don't buy this box wrench organizer. It is shite.
Staples for wiring. Gross. I mean I guess it's fine for romex but if you want to move data it becomes problematic.
wannabe
"Insignificant Other"
Kinda off topic, but I miss by analog calipers. Every time I go to use my digital calipers, the batteries are dead. Every. Fucking. Time.
Some other rando organization stuff I'd set up recently:
Get yourself one of those back-of-the-door shoe organizers. Use it to organize all your rando cables. I opted for the slightly more spendy cloth version, which I'm having a tough time figuring out how to label them and having the labels stick.
My usual lazy method of sharpie & gaff tape is not working.
Maybe I'll just go all out and silkscreen some patches and sew those on.
Get yourself one of those back-of-the-door shoe organizers. Use it to organize all your rando cables. I opted for the slightly more spendy cloth version, which I'm having a tough time figuring out how to label them and having the labels stick.
My usual lazy method of sharpie & gaff tape is not working.
Maybe I'll just go all out and silkscreen some patches and sew those on.
Bay Arean
Well-known member
Hey hey. I have a whole toolbox just for CoAx and a big spool of the stuff. Assembled right before ATT came and cut all the outside coax because they moved over to Ethernet.:laughing Then I had to run a new Cat-6 or whatever they call it into my basement. They now have made all of my phone lines obsolete and only the Cat stuff works for the phone. Oh and the guy gave a whole box of that Cat whatever. Im sure its obsolete by now. I carefully made a terminal wall fitting for my Ethernet. On this latest visit, when I supposedly was upgraded to fibre optics, he bypassed the plug and ran the cable directly to my modem input. It sits jammed under the edge of the wallplate and looks like hell. I was at work so I couldnt' object.
I even went to Laner to get the exact right kind of coax fittings, the purple ones for the Coax. But when i still had the coax, they still snipped em off and put on their own.. I had made my terminal under the eaves so they'd never get rained on. The asshole cut em off and ran em down to the cellar entrance so he could get to em easier. All my picky work for nothing. I hate the cable/ethernet/fibre optics guy.
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