F5 Dave's tool storage dilemmas

[HenryDorsetCase]

pvc pipes are great for storing stuff mounted under cabinets or bench.
not just for drills
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That is brilliant.

I have been following this thread avidly because I have been thinking of reorganising my garage/bench storage.

[F5 Dave]

I want to build this one day...

https://www.instructables.com/Multi-...lip-Top-Table/

Hmm, bit too woodworky for me.

I have to face the reality that my clean bench gets filled up with stuff. Every mimi fixit means more on the bench with micro cleans to get space back the macro clean every so often.


But the good news is I used to have a giant bin bag at the end of the bench. I've worked out I can extend the bench and block off the unusable corner then put bin under bench.



Actually I spent a bit of time classifying my brake stuff, stripped what I could and dumped a bunch. Same with scraps of old race stuff.

Heatshrink went into 2 boxes. Stupidly large stuff I can't throw away at the back.

Sandpaper sorted to sheet metal, belt, finger belt and machine fitting, then stored in 3 baskets in cubbyhole.

About 3 cubbyhole freed up. More to come.

[husaberg]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9QaFTI2F9c
Studley tool box.

one insired by it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zilaABlbhng

[F5 Dave]

You need to watch this video hes a bit ocd but still neat ideas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFYJFgOIRCM


Also Adam is crazy on storage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2jKajS7pNc&t=14s

i do f all woodwork but i just got my tanner buzzer/table saw combo i had been looking for for about 3 years.
its cast iron and will outlast my children.
my last table saw (a bunnings cheapy) has locked its blade height twice now and its less than 2 years old. probably used less then 50 times
i bought it solely to rip plysheets in half with a new top made especially to serve as a jig and top extender.

Slowly looking. First one is obsessed with vacuum and swinging bench grinders. He's a woodworker I see. Guess that explains it.
I have a dirty bench in the thinner end of the garage (other side from clean bench) which has vice, 2 grinders, a std grinder, then another one with wire wheel (most used) polisher (rarely used) and drill press. Welder and compressor live under bench. Turn around and it's the lathe.
Couldn't be doing all that bending over everything you wanted to tickle something up. Plus metal doesn't vacuum up like wood.


Hmm, Adam's constantly creaking camera got to me, but it does show how different hobbies require different approaches.

Do want his R2D2 though.

[husaberg]

This will make you feel better Dave.
At one stage 1-4 were 4 different manufacturers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB2leD6BGN0

[F5 Dave]

You're right, I enjoyed that, good old digger.

Sports video photography has surely come on somewhat though.

[F5 Dave]

Well I went out for first roadride in 6 months. 20 min was pretty much my limit.

So when recovered I went into the garage and made a bench extension from scrap. Pretty happy with that. Ahh silly thing is on its side, cant becarsed.
Exhausted me so rest time.

But not before I laid eyes on some muffler skins, ally with carbon like look. Too good the throw away (really)! Next installment some other day.

[husaberg]

You're right, I enjoyed that, good old digger.

Sports video photography has surely come on somewhat though.

I think it's more an indictment f the US video feed.
this one id one the aussies did the year before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XcEtf-WM74
Notice how easy they are to throw side to side.

[husaberg]

That is brilliant.

I have been following this thread avidly because I have been thinking of reorganising my garage/bench storage.

This was where i first seen them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALn9zyUp3_o

[F5 Dave]

Ahh OK I know what I'm going to do and it won't involve pvc pipe. It will be some wood stuck to the bottom of my new extension with some angled risers (droppers?) Screwed from the top. The hanging shelf will have cutouts for my 3 tools. Much easier and need less fancy woodwork tools.

[F5 Dave]

And with just a holesaw bit and a saw . . .

And just some angled bits of wood and 4 screws to go. Much simpler. Biker woodwork. Holesaw was a extravagance, but had it for fitting a lockset.

But lunch was beckoning so it will have to wait.

[F5 Dave]

OK finished. Of course I dropped it and broke a support off, but dowel saved the day. Then my ad lib spacers were too narrow but some shim wood saved that. Not YouTube ready and I don't care.

Looks a bit on the piss but it isn't.

[neels]

Heatshrink went into 2 boxes. Stupidly large stuff I can't throw away at the back.

I have a pile of various heatshrinks lying around and stuffed in drawers, have started tidying the garage (again) so think I'll get one of these to hang under one of the higher shelves to keep it off the floor and so I can see it.

Occurred to me the other day when looking up at some mesh cable tray, the longer bits can poke through and hang out the ends.....



https://www.mitre10.co.nz/shop/under...caddy/p/182702

[HenryDorsetCase]

Heatshrink saves the day - I was fettling one of the pushbikes and got the V-brakes sorted but couldnt find a cable ferrule anywhere. I hate the sticky outy cut cable ends (only because I fucking stabbed myself with one and it really fucking hurt and got infected) so I always cover them and cable tie them out of the way. Aaanyway no ferrules to be had but a bit of heatshrink and a cable tie and job's a good 'un.

[F5 Dave]

Good idea. Infection is bad.
Been out of garage for a couple of days since they cut the end of my finger off as indirect and direct result.