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Powder Keg:
 :doh: This could be said when a person looks into my shop. I have been "working on stuff" since I moved into my shop about 5 years ago. I never have time to "clean" or "organize" my stuff. I've been bust makin stuff. I'm starting to pay the price. My next major project is going to be organizing my shop.

I'm looking for Ideas. Nifty ways to store lathe chucks, drills, wrenches, Lathe bits, tool holders, dead pigeons, screwdrivers, hammers, pliers, squares, Rotary tables, dividing heads, collets, punches, and other misc. machine shop stuff. I'd rather not have it stored away in bins where it can't be seen. I think I'd have the same problem that I have now. I cant find anything till I get a new one :bang: :bang: :bang:

 :worthless:

Thanks for any help, Wesley :med:

John Hill:
Wesley, my workshop is an absolute disgrace but I have had a few good ideas over the years!

I found the surplus office furniture warehouses are a good place to look.  Old map cabinets, the kind with big shallow drawers, are ideal for storing small tools and instruments. Filing cabinets are cheap because there is little use for them but all they need is a plywood box made to fit inside and they are ideal for storing power tools etc.  Banks used to have shallow drawer cabinets in which they stored checque books etc, steel and highest quality construction and if you can find one ideal to have under the bench where I use one for spanners, screwdrivers, hammers, hacksaws etc.

I think the secret for workshop drawers and bins is that they must be shallow so that whatever is in there is all on show when you pull the drawer out.

My best purchase ever was a 120 drawer card index cabinet (the library used to have dozens of these and I managed to get one).  They are ideal for nails, nuts and bolts, and all manner of useful bits.

bogstandard:
Use the walls as much as you can Wes, you can't pile things on top of each other. Well you can, but is is a lot more difficult than piling up horizontally.


John

John Hill:
If you want to use the walls you can triple, or more, the area by making things like 'doors' on hinges set out from the wall a couple of inches.  Then you can hang tools on the wall plus both sides of the 'door' contraption.

Baldrocker:
Murphy's law No 22
"No matter how much storage space you have, you will always have 15% more stuff".  :scratch:
BR

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