You’ve got drawers that have drawers with drawers on their drawers (what did he just say!). Each box is on a shelf with drawer pulls. #15: Here’s a really nice version of the parts-box-in-cabinet approach. Voila! Now you got room to organize a lot of small parts! Take a bunch of those little benchtop parts cabinets with all the drawers and stick ’em on a Lazy Susan Carousel. It’s great to grab the box and take it to where I’m working and have all the hardware that goes together. I even put the taps for that hardware size in the box. Each one contains a particular size hardware. Eventually I will use most of the cubbies to hold multi-compartment plastic boxes. I only wish I’d made a much bigger version with stronger shelves: I decided many years ago to create a special purpose parts cabinet and It only took a couple of hours to make and I have loved it ever since. Plus we’ve got all the consumables such as cutters, inserts, and the like that go with the machines. There are so many of them needed for CNC projects. Small parts seem like the bane of my organizational existence. #12 – Spray Can Rack is perfect for the little gap between the shelves and the door jamb… #13 – #15: Create Special Purpose Parts Cabinets and Screw Storage Cabinets #11: Side of a cabinet becomes a storage surface… #10: Did you forget the attic? I love this idea for a lift to make it easy to move things back and forth to the attic… This is especially true for garage storage and basements. Used filing cabinets are cheap and easy to modify! #8 – Use the Space Behind a Work Surface or Cabinet (Great Garage Storage Idea!)īehind-bench storage might be just the ticket… #9 – #12: Use Marginalized Spaces in Gaps and EndsĮventually, you realize there’s quite a lot of marginal space–space where you can’t fit a tool cabinet or shelves. This filing cabinet was converted to a vertical locker by removing the drawers and making a wooden door of the same color. This one is on a rolling frame and nests underneath the workbench the Emco CNC Mill is on. Track down old file cabinets–they’re sturdy, cheap and can be used as the carcasses for all sorts of custom storage. You’ll be surprised at how handy they are. Look for spots in your shop where you could add a rolling tool cabinet, wait for the sales, and add one each year. Work surface on fire brick insulators, Supplies in drawers, and the square tube pullout holds a vise… Here’s my quick and dirty welding cart made with a healthy chunk of steel bolted to a rolling tool cabinet with fire bricks to insulate it: Bolt the work surface to the cabinets to create a rolling cart. Take two waist-high rolling cabinets and put a nice sized work surface they both fit under. They are instant drawers for storage and they look perfect in any shop! Plus, you can slap a work surface on top of them. I love the post-Christmas and Father’s Day sales because that’s when rolling tool cabinets go on sale. #6 – Vertical Storage Drawers like these from … #7 – Put Drawers or Shelves Under Every Work Surface #4 – Old filing cabinets have very deep storage. Use a pullout to arrange shallow bins back to back in a denser format than if they were horizontally arrayed on a shelf… #2 – Mount your front shelves on floor tracks so they can slide to provide access to back shelves… If we put shelves behind shelves, how do we access the back shelves? It’s time to go deeper, and the whole secret to going deeper is access. Once you’re floor to ceiling, you’ve used up one dimension of your space. Pull out shelves provide steps to access the top shelves… #2 – #6: Go Deeper Consider this mocked up garage shelving system: With a little ingenuity though, we can adapt a storage solution to provide its own access. Industry has the advantage of larger spaces and fork lifts. Be sure to think about how you’re going to access the top levels, though. You can often find them surplus at good prices on Craig’s List. Industrial spaces use pallet racks, and if you have room for them, they’re great.
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