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Quote from: aigheadish on February 04, 2025, 07:03:24 AMI haven't found a hardware solution I like but it seem like the mason jar bolted to a board method may be one of the best... I don't really have anything particular, just a bunch of odds and ends.
I did jars for a bit, then little baby food (glass) jars for little to small stuff. With our second child, 12 years later, the new plastic baby food tubs. I nearly doubled the storage capacity in the same space.

Way fuller now. Then for bigger stuff, the plastic peanut butter and parmesan cheese containers on the left and

And I have some metal drawers for the big stuff like 1/2" and up and/or long bolts.

Like a visual learner, I'm a visual finder. I like to be able to see what I've got.

At my scrap metal pickup, they had 3 full 5 gallon buckets of new SAE fine bolts to throw out. I saved a gallon or so of various lengths in 1/4", 5/16", 3/8", 7/16" and 1/2". I don't use much fine thread, but now I'll never have to buy any! It hurt to throw the rest away. Now I have to find a spot for another 9 jars...
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Quote from: GRANITEstateMP on February 03, 2025, 10:40:16 AMI have Mondays off the rest of the winter.  My son had a 2hr delay because of a piddly 3in snow storm.  We had a big "weekend" type breakfast, then I decided to check an item off my to do list, organize safe/gun safe.

Is it still a score if you find something you forgot you had?  I forgot I still had an Sig .22lr Mosquito pistol.  It was jammed in the back of the safe in its case.  I really hate the thing, its always had cycling issues and I even brought it back twice (Sig has a few manufacturing facilities in NH). they went through it and did a few "tweaks" but it isn't reliable, which means I'm not gonna shoot it much.  Turns out, they don't make "that"  gun here in NH.  Anyways, I thought that I'd traded it toward some other pee shooter long ago, so it was a surprise to find it.  Guess I'll have to find a different .22lr to.replace it, cause it isn't. spending much more time in my safe!
Just a thought for you. I also have a .22 Sig Mosquito and found that simply using.40gr bullets solved the feeding issue. YMMV

Brad_bb

Seeing your hardware is very important.  So is being easy to grab.  The Durham cabinets have a lid once you pull out the drawer.  The lid keeps dust from entering, but is also an extra step to get at the hardware inserts.  Using the wooden drawers, they will not have a lid and be easier to access.  I'll deal with any dust.  Open compartments make it easy to grap the screws you need.  With jars, you could have a ahard time getting your fingers in there, or you'd have to dump contents into your hand.  Having lids on the jars are an extra step to remove so between that and dumping the jars, it's just too cumbersome for me. 

Actually I prefer the look of the wood drawers over the Durham cabinets and contents will be easier to access.  Maybe I'll have a contrasting Walnut face frame on the cabinet?  I also plan to have visual controls on the drawers.  I'll make picture labels to put on the drawer fronts to easily know what's in them.  It's also important to put your most used hardware in a spot in the cabinet that is  easiest and most confortable to access.  Stuff you use rarely should go in the back of drawers, and on the bottom shelves that you have to bend over to access.  the box cabinets will have a larger wood drawer on bottom and swivel casters with brake.  You can make your own drawers, but planning is key and making them all the same so you can cut and prepare all the parts ahead is the key.  Saving me that step saves me considerable time.

Some hardware like coated deck screws and some trim screws I tend to use a lot of in my mill shed so I made a wall mounted holder for the most common screws I use over there, from plywood scraps.  You could do this in one area of the shop where you tend to use certain hardware most often.

I'm slowly adding shelves and cubbys to get everything off the concrete stem wall.
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Brad_bb

Not sure if this counts as a score, but definitely a very reasonalbe deal.  I need to make a 7ft long shelf in my bathroom with a lower apron that will have pegs to hang towels and hoodies etc.  I wanted walnut but an interesting looking one like the coatrack that made in the past.  Trouble is for all the slabs I have, I just didn't have what I was envisioning.  So I went to a local guy  and he had the slab I was looking for with an undulating live edge and the character void.  He charged me $240 for the slab and it's already kiln dried and flattened.  Because it was so reasonable I couldn't leave the sister slab there(underneath), same price. They are 1.5 inches thick which is perfect for what I'm making.  Yes, it does kill me to buy wood when I mill and dry wood myself, but it's walnut and interesting pieces that I didn't have. So I'm happy.


Here's the coatrack that I milled etc, that I love.
Anything someone can design, I can sure figure out how to fix!
If I say it\\\\\\\'s going to take so long, multiply that by at least 3!

aigheadish

Thanks for the hardware tips guys. I currently have my favorite fasteners in a nice spot that works, though I'm running out, but otherwise the little plastic drawers work ok but I spend a lot of time pulling the drawers out and looking through the bottom (they are above my head level). Luckily, I don't need that stuff too often. 
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Some containers of mine are catchall types where everything and anything is in there.  I use a rag or an old shop cloth to pour the contents on when I am looking for something.  Then you wrap it up in the cloth, stick it back in the jar and then pull the cloth out.  Presto! Everything back in the jar.
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