Storage ideas

[dan.deter]

This is exactly what I need to do. All the way down to the horse stall mats which should be glued in place and pieces cut to fill in the empty spaces. New cabinets, new lumber racks, new stationary tool layout.

That's top of my list right now, too.

 

[Tom from Clayton]

I use old free or cheap file cabinets. For the most part I keep a general category in each drawer. Things that I don't use often but when I need them I need to know where to look to find them. Odd plumbing stuff, electrical stuff, equipment manuals, etc etc.

 

[Martin Roper]

Every once in a while you can stumble upon a large flat file, sometimes called map files, blueprint files, or architects files.

Companies are getting rid of them because they take up a lot of space and everything is digital now.

Mine looks just like the one above. I keep chisels, files, rasps and such in the top drawer, measuring and layout items in the second, bench dogs and clamps in the third, small saws in the fourth, and artist supplies in the bottom. They are industrial quality and very heavy. They're built like tanks.

I slid the whole thing onto the shelf under my workbench which I actually built with a flat file in mind.

They can get pricey, though. Every once in a while you can find a deal on one. I got mine for free because it was nearly nonfunctional. The drawers operate on steel wheels that ride on rails. Some wheels were missing and a few axles were bent. I straightened the axles with some taps of a hammer and found nylon wheels on Amazon that fit perfectly. Total investment was about $12.

 

[Mike Davis]

Every once in a while you can stumble upon a large flat file, sometimes called map files, blueprint files, or architects files.
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Companies are getting rid of them because they take up a lot of space and everything is digital now.

Mine looks just like the one above. I keep chisels, files, rasps and such in the top drawer, measuring and layout items in the second, bench dogs and clamps in the third, small saws in the fourth, and artist supplies in the bottom. They are industrial quality and very heavy. They're built like tanks.

I slid the whole thing onto the shelf under my workbench which I actually built with a flat file in mind.

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They can get pricey, though. Every once in a while you can find a deal on one. I got mine for free because it was nearly nonfunctional. The drawers operate on steel wheels that ride on rails. Some wheels were missing and a few axles were bent. I straightened the axles with some taps of a hammer and found nylon wheels on Amazon that fit perfectly. Total investment was about $12.

You mean like this? My wife uses this for her printing papers.

 

[Martin Roper]

Like that, Mike.

 

[mpeele]

I use a real simple to build wall mounted clamp and caul storage. It's 2 8' studs for mounting and stabilizing a 4'X8' 1/4" plywood and 2X4 shorts as needed for clamps. The 2X4 shorts are screwed to the plywood from the back and space as need for the clamps you have. You can use the space between longer clamps for shorter ones. With the multiple levels you can store a lot of clamps in 32 sq feet of wall space. I have a 10' pice of perforated angle steel where shorter (less than 24") often used clamps migrate to hanging over my assembly table. Don't have a picture but it has about 15 or 20 clamps.

 

[mpeele]

Hear's the bar over the low mft Holey assembly table.