It's been years.  I have put up with a cluttered sloppy mess of bits in pill bottles poly wrappers making this drawer a complete unworkable disaster.

Finally I got fed up with the madness and  drilled a few holes in a hunk of ply

I've seen People pooh pooh those router bit collections ( see the ones in red) I bought one  for 30 sumpin bucks at a show and have never regretted it. I use the daylights outta them.  

 

23 minutes ago, Cliff said:

bits in pill bottles

And yet you still have the pill bottles... 

 

Looks good. 

21 minutes ago, p_toad said:

still have the pill bottles

yup  there's screws  'n such in 'em

 

Looks good! I keep telling myself I gotta do that, but I never listen; just talk.

hat

Edited September 13, 20187 yr by hatuffej

That's great, Cliff, except I'd forget to close the drawer before using the router.

1 hour ago, p_toad said:

And yet you still have the pill bottles...

bearing, screw, spacer and locknut collections...

I like that a lot, now if you have a good place to store it, you have it made. What we need is a system that automatically pulls out our storage boxes on request and when we are done, it automatically returns them to a storage place 

36 minutes ago, Ron Altier said:

I like that a lot, now if you have a good place to store it, you have it made. What we need is a system that automatically pulls out our storage boxes on request and when we are done, it automatically returns them to a storage place 

Igor!  get to work!

 

"it's eye-gore sir"

And a roar goes up from the crowd, Good Show , Ole Chap, You will like it better and better every time you use it. Good job.

Herb

I, many years ago, did not know what a pill bottle was. Now I have so many they are everywhere in my shop with various items in them.

 I used to use pill bottles, just about any thing that would hold things. Then I saw these see thru containers. NICE! You can take the whole thing with you or pick out any single compartment. I have all my "stuff" where I can see at a glance if it is in there. I have some from HF and HD

GO Harbor Freight!!!!! I have some of those too, Ron. Surprised?

 

Herb

Not surprised.........all are made in China.  I don't always (most of the time) remember what I put stuff in. So these have helped greatly!

1 hour ago, Dadio said:

GO Harbor Freight!!!!! I have some of those too, Ron. Surprised?

 

Herb

I had the HF ones..  total aste of money..

the plastic is thinner, the hinges and latches were marginal and would not tolerate the cold w/o splitting...

they only lasted a few weeks riding around in the truck...

the Stanleys were much better and lasted a very long time..

 

 

same for the tool boxes..

the plastic ones fail soon and often and were replaced w/ metal...

 

 

 

Not like the ones I have..........Hd and Hf look the same. Both are China made and both are same.

8 hours ago, Stick486 said:

I had the HF ones..  total aste of money..

the plastic is thinner, the hinges and latches were marginal and would not tolerate the cold w/o splitting...

they only lasted a few weeks riding around in the truck...

the Stanleys were much better and lasted a very long time..

I don't do any of those things, Stick, They are sitting in drawers and on the shelves in my warm shop.

Herb

3 minutes ago, Dadio said:

I don't do any of those things, Stick, They are sitting in drawers and on the shelves in my warm shop.

Herb

they work for you...

but they wouldn't work for others...

just informing the new guy trying to get things accomplished and having to do it once...

I've been pretty happy with the Akro-type hanging bins, stacking them on the shelves. I replaced my collection of coffee cans with them and it is way easier to find things - you can see the cans stacked on the shelves to the right in this photo, the one I needed was always in the back.

 

 

I replaced the cans with stacked Akro bins, picking the size that was just a little shorter than the shelf depth, and stacking them four high. This let me pick the one I needed a lot easier than rooting through the cans. I still have one shelf with cans for those fasteners where I have a larger quantity.

 

 

This worked out so well that I finally got around to building my version of the Hardware Cabinet feathered in Woodsmith a ways back. It has two different depth drawers, holding two different sizes of the Akro bins.

 

 

 

This let me really organize my hardware, no more spending the day looking for that one size screw, only to give in and go buy some more and then tripping over them when I got back.

 

 

For larger quantities, I store them in the original packaging. For smaller quantities, I bought a box of zip-lock bags about the same size as the bins, and store like sizes - e.g. #10 machine screws of different lengths - in the same bin. This has really gone a long way towards solving some of my storage problems, just wish that I'd made it larger.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 14, 20187 yr by tomp
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I need a couple of you to come organize my shop. You already have the system down. 

I can always use the coffee cans to buy my cash in the backyard.

 

Herb