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| oldgoaly:
Just made a couple of these for 3' and less threaded rod, s/s rod, brass rod. smaller stuff pile on a shelf, longer stuff piled on the floor and stacked up along the wall. Made from 22 gauge 36" wide stock, so the rough cuts were 7.5" by 18" to not make scrap. Each rack is made from 5 pcs, 2 of which get holes. I have greenlee round dies no squares so that is why they are round. Soon as I can make a spot they will get screwed to the wall :zap: |
| awemawson:
Similar to John S 's mine is mainly racking on the wall. I do have a stack of 'carbine boxes' - like bullet boxes but a different shape, that holds the more 'chunky' pieces. Separate ones for brass, steel, aluminium, plastic and paxolin. Incidentally I do have rather more of the carbine boxes than I need if anyone needs some. |
| PekkaNF:
Excelent timing you have :wave: --- Quote from: awemawson on October 14, 2013, 03:26:40 AM ---..... Incidentally I do have rather more of the carbine boxes than I need if anyone needs some. --- End quote --- ooooo....I would love to get a bunch of those kind of boxes, but it would be a killer to send them any distance. I was looking for an old ammo box or something, but looks like I have to roll my own. I just made this weekend some storage place. 1) Long rods are leaning up against the wall 2) 50 cm to 150 cm rods up in drain tubes bunched together (have to build more this type). 3) 70 cm and shorter vertical on drain tubes bunched together *Picture update* I made them really simple. Used band saw to cut the 110 mm OD plastic drain pipe and simple frames of board lying around. --- Quote from: Pete. on October 13, 2013, 04:14:31 PM ---.... Stock less than 300mm long - in parts bins on a rolling trolley sorted by material type .... --- End quote --- Any picture? I need to store pretty heavy short pieces of various iron metals and I'm having hard time figuring out how to. I usually just chuck them under storage self and on spring cleaning (not likely to happen even every other year) I make discoveries. While still on this hot topic: Does anyone has a good coloring system to separate witchestits from free machining stock? Electricians tape? Three paint jars or never drying paint. I'm disapointed on spray paint cans. I have few bars that are proverbial to machine, but welds fine, some that machine well and will not weld....and some that don't do neither well all looks identical twins (minus notes I have taped on some bars, but if I loose the note........) Pekka |
| AussieJimG:
Great timing! I'm having a bit of a cleanup and, like Pekka, having difficulty keeping track of the different types of steel. So I will be watching to get some clues. Might even do something useful. Jim |
| Ashlyn Katarzyna:
I keep all of my Aluminum out side in trash cans or on a steel A frame rack built from left over projects. I have 3) 7" dia solid aluminum logs from 6" to 21" long they are buried outside, getting ready to melt my stock pile down into ingots. All of my steel is out back on rail road ties, and EMT tubing is also on a steel rack. Short stuff is on a construction barricade. The only thing I keep inside is pending projects mostly stuff for blackpowder cannons I keep an Gau-8 barrel in my room, my mill takes up a very large section of a 1 car garage wish it took up as much as my lathe does. I'm too embarassed to take a photo of my shop its a total clusterF. |
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