How do you organize your tools and parts? So does anyone have

>>1213896
i use an old six-pack box and a pair of milk crates. 0/10 would not recommend living like me

those stackable containers with that angled opening like in your op image there are the gold standard for small parts storage and sorting. you can also get a cubby unit, or even just shelving with dividers.

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>>1213896
Magnets and a big metal thing are a good way to organize all your component bags.

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>>1213948

Absolutely disgusting.

I have an organiser like pic related and all the hardware stored in it rusted. My shop doesnt seem to have any damp problems, it's just the stuff in these bins. Any idea what might cause that?

>>1213896
Use ziplocks. Label with tape on the top. Use them like the file folders. Dont need a cabinet, boxes work. I like to cut down cardboard boxes and reenforce with colored D tape for quick reference.
Bonus hang a small line of clothes pins above your work area. Hang the bitbags your using off the workspace but still in eye sight.

>>1213963
Maybe the wind that carry humidity or sea breeze

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Personally, I put the bitbags into ziploc bags into plastic shoe storage boxes.

>>1213963
Lock-and-lock food storage bins might be just the ticket, especially if you stop eating the silica gel sachets and put them in the boxes instead.

>>1213971
>hang a small line of clothes pins above your work area
Jeenyus like this is why I come here. I think I'm going to do that but with binder clips.

>>1213896
>makes finding stuff hard.

this is a life hacker tip. make one file. either in a loose leaf notebook or a flash drive or cloud or wherever.

make multiple copies of that file, so that no matter what burns up you will have that file.

now make that file comprehensible. That is the hard part.

"I stored the mechanical choke bullshit parts for my old carb in box A12 in the shed out back".

Make the notes comprehensible. Make the notes indestructible. If your phone dies the same week that your PC melts down you want this file to be easily readable.

This is the file that tells you how to re-install your OS and where you put that pile of screws you removed from that piece of shit that you never intended to re-assemble.

tawnee taught me all this stuff. but I did not listen, because she was wearing that.

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>>1214075
>Make the notes comprehensible.

which means searchable.

as much as vim sucks, and it really sucks, it has the best search ever.

ok, enough about vim. be able to find what you are looking for.

I do this: if I want to be able to find the shit about my asus laptop, I file the important shit under "asus asus", because searching for asus alone can turn up 40 hits. but "asus asus" leads to the important stuff, if i'm lucky and I was smart.

that's the hard part. having your 5 year ago self being able to think like your today self. I'm still learning that part.

>>1213896
compartmented boxes and a flat file cabinet.

>>1214091

What's flat file cabinet?

I embrace chaos.

I use Sortimo T-Boxx's, L-Boxx's and I-Boxx's. They are expensive but they are worth every cent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OPSbF6kM9k

>>1213948
ABSOLUTLY GENIUS.

GOLD STAR

>>1215092
ALSO FUCKING GENIOUS ANON.

Gonna build me a rack and buy 1m3 milluon fishing tackle clear boxes.

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>>1213896
I use pic related for sand papers. Changed my life.

Also harbor frieght stackable/organizable bins help but my shop is still a fucking mess all the time.

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>>1213948
This is disgusting and good

>>1213896
I've bought clear small plastic bags 2 x 3 " for electronic parts and store them in a shoe box. these boxes on the pic are shit because the waste of storage space.

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>>1213896
Friend down the street was moving out, got an old card box for free.

pic is related

Solid oak drawers with dovetails, sturdy cast stainless handles.
Just had to buy some pan screws, fix some of the water damage and remove the fugly paint job.

Highly reccomend.

For larger stuff like powertools, just milk crates stacked on a shelf, as well as a few tool boxes.

>>1215660
On the downside, every hipster wants a card catalog so they cost a retarded amount of money.

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>>1213896
Tools 01: i have 2 older file cabinets one with big dravers and one with the smaller ones
the big one i use for cased and boxed power tools the smaler ones for noramal hand tools also all labeled so when i send someone for something he finds it
pic the big drawer storage (probably add inventory list)

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>>1213896
Tools02: the normal tools mostly wrenches and rachet shiat i have in drawers the one in pic is the best organized one
slowly filing one drawer with Wera screw drivers the old one going on a screwdriver rack(still not winished - lazy AF)
the rest of the tools like hamers, chisels files etc i store in a tool shelf
the ones to be reapaired(ton of them) in various boxes

>>1213948
this looks absolutely haram

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>>1213896

>>1217515
300 lbs

>>1217515
Nickel plated stanley transitional planes hnnnnnnngggg.

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>>1213948
Fucking best post on all of 4chan in the last month. 10/10

>>1215252
anon, you have blown my mind.

brb, goin to walmart.

>>1215252

pretty good. I have several of those shits and a stack of assorted sandpaper, thx

>>1215660
>>1215878

Extremely lucky that someone didn't know the value of those things. A 60-drawer card cabinet is absolute minimum $1000. I was at an estate sale last week where a 72-drawer was listed at $2000

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>>1213896
PARTS and stuff:
i slowly get similiar containers like the ones in your picture i mostly get severals fill them up and then get another ones(they have them in diferent sizes from small ones like in my pictures to big one you can fit a motor in), things i need to move ofthen or too small i have in suitcases style boxes i decided to go with one style/firm so i dont end up with ton of diferent cases they are pain in the ass to store
for cold storage i have old file boxes and now i ading folding containers for light stuff, also reusing boxes from other things, just clean them up and they are ideal for small stuff u need in cold storage
also you can ked inspiration from Adam Savage or the other Mythbuster i got ton of inspiration from them or people foloving them(like pipe tape storage, soda can as container for used blades and pointy stuff etc.)

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>organize

>>1213948
the fuck are those anon
you have a nice taste

>>1218380
bloody hell
stop triggering my OCD
mng u have 3 big ass tool boxes

>>1218726
It does say "ASSHOLE'S GARAGE" on the waste bin, what did you expect?

>>1217751
Almost ties with adding a shot of black, so they know you're a pro.

>>1218766
> "assholes garage"
> literally full of shit

Checks out.

>>1218726
And I use them all, too.
>>1218774
In the middle of 3 projects, most boxes and parts on floor are for car thats out to paint.

>>1218877
I notice you did not explain the waste bin.

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>>1218892

>>1219003
It was my dad's garage. I took it over in 2008 when he died, his co-workers used to call him Asshole because they found an old sign that said "my boss is a fuckin asshole" and put it up in the shop where they worked.

>>1219029
mng diy needs stories thread

>>1217515
Still cant find the 10mm socket.

>>1218120
Is that just because they're so labour-intense, I wonder? Because they can be built -- but I guess nobody is interested in doing it anymore?