Stick, looks good. I could not store a forth of that. I do admire all of it. Even labeled, I couldn't remember it.

5 minutes ago, Ron Altier said:

I could not store a forth of that

you have 4x's as much????

For the longest time I had 3, 14.4 Volt batteries. One day i ended up only being able to 2. I searched all over for the darn thing and couldn't find it anywhere. I gave up like last year looking for it. I figured this spring when I renovated my shop I'd happen across it. Nope no such luck.  The other day when I was off I decided to go ahead and clean out the garage (which is not attached to the shop) I was looking through a box of random crud and there it was. Of course this would have been a moment of victory had not the drill and flashlight the charger and the other two batteries been stolen last year when when someone broke into my work truck. 

13 minutes ago, Kelso Chris said:

For the longest time I had 3, 14.4 Volt batteries. One day i ended up only being able to 2. I searched all over for the darn thing and couldn't find it anywhere. I gave up like last year looking for it. I figured this spring when I renovated my shop I'd happen across it. Nope no such luck.  The other day when I was off I decided to go ahead and clean out the garage (which is not attached to the shop) I was looking through a box of random crud and there it was. Of course this would have been a moment of victory had not the drill and flashlight the charger and the other two batteries been stolen last year when when someone broke into my work truck. 

Advertise it in Craig's list, when he comes to get it grab him and call the police.

herb

9 hours ago, steamshovel said:

If I can't find it I keep looking and looking and when I am about to give up I look in my hands and whoa and behold there it is.

 

Preston

my latest strategy for a recently used tool or material is to just stop looking and carry on.   It usually appears in a couple of minutes.

Mine seems to stay in a state of reorganization!

On ‎11‎/‎4‎/‎2016 at 5:58 PM, kmealy said:

my latest strategy for a recently used tool or material is to just stop looking and carry on.   It usually appears in a couple of minutes.

 

And if you can't carry on without it?

1 hour ago, HandyDan said:

 

And if you can't carry on without it?

there's always coffee and donuts..

On 11/3/2016 at 11:10 PM, Ron Altier said:

and reorganize my half garage shop

 

 

DON'T~!!!!!  You will lose everything.  Or rather you won't remember where things are. DAMHIKT

 

I got more hardware than our local hardware store has.

I took my hot melt glue gun and glued one each screw,

nut, bolt and whatever to the out side of each drawer

to match whatever's inside each.

22 minutes ago, Kevin Beitz said:

I got more hardware than our local hardware store has.

I took my hot melt glue gun and glued one each screw,

nut, bolt and whatever to the out side of each drawer

to match whatever's inside each.

They guy who runs FastCap has a "Lean Manufacturing" OCD.   He does this with everything in the factory.

I have recently emptied out the work van and slowly moved into my basement workshop.   In the last couple of months,  I've reorganized the mess of hardware at the scene shop and also at the furniture bank.   I've done this "visual identification" with a lot of the storage bins.   Today I found some 1.5" wide yellow tape and labeled some of the shelves and buckets, too.

I use to have more hardware than tools and wood. I bought a contruction auction  storage locker out. It took several years to get  rid of all the galvanized nails, screws I couldn't use. I found all that crap just took  all my space. Phased most of it out...

Edited November 16, 20196 yr by BillyJack

Organizing is good, but RECALL is always a issue.  recently started labeling with tape and a marker what is in drawer.  These are a few of my solutions to organization.  

 

 

 

Organization 

2 hours ago, Larry Buskirk said:

Organization 

I know, a new curse word right???

Perhaps not a curse word, maybe just a foreign word or concept...

I'm one of those that can lose something while holding on to it! 

Now where did the trackball go? 

Larry, that makes me feel like a normal guy. I do those same dumb things. My dad did too and I could never figure out why he did it, now I know. When it happens, I just sit back & relax or do something else and the lost tool pops up again. A few must of ran away and were never seen again, until I buy replacements.

I never lose anything. But, there's a good number of shop items, the whereabouts of, I know not. 

Edited November 19, 20196 yr by Gene Howe

Stick----I have the same Eastwing 12 oz hammer, purchased in the same year---also one of the first tools I bought----just back from Korea.