I don't know about all of you but I am in the endless struggle of trying to sort my bits and pieces, keep my work area clean, open and usable, and try to be somewhat efficient. Up until now I have been pretty well unsuccessful, but I keep trying none the less.
I picked up some of these months ago and use them on a regular basis.. I REALLY like that you can remove the trays and they index. They're probably nowhere near the quality of the Sortimo stuff, but this whole project cost was probably 2 or 3 of their bins.
http://www.princessauto.com/en/detail/parts-organizer-with-removable-bins/A-p8439226e
So, since I liked them and then all the sudden they were out I found them on the PA website, which won't let you ship to store and the shipping on 30 of these things was going to be $70, and I ain't payin' it. Called into their order centre or whatever it is, asked for ship to store, they said no but the store in the south had 60 en route, should be there in a week or so. This was all while I was away at work, timing was a little sketchy and I wanted them but I didn't follow up with the store.. The day after I got home I called and they had "more than 20", the lady was a real bitch about it too.. I conned the wife into going to PA (as a waypoint to somewhere she did want to go) and picked up 30 of the 32 they had (tried to get all of them, but the same lady who answered the phone took off with 2 for some reason), ended up being about $250. Got them home and this is what they looked like in my basement... The stack is taller than me, which makes me happy.
I had in mind for a rack, I just didn't know exactly how I was going to do it but this is what I came up with:
Not all that fancy, thats for sure.. But I need racks to make this work since lifting a bunch of these things off to get to the bottom one is going far against what I was trying to do. Went to Federal and picked up 90' of 1/2 x 1/2 x .065 and 48' of 1 x 1 x .065. Obviously this stuff isn't great, but for this kind of thing its perfect. It's light and cheap, which the cheap part is to some degree the idea of this project.
I got to Protospace and started cutting, with a bit of a plan.. which is exactly like me, a half of a plan which is almost certainly doomed to fail. I got the 1 x 1 all cut down, then cut down the 1/2 and then cut and angle on it so that the side structure piece had something to lift up on since it could be a pain to try and lift it from the handle. (side picture of the box explains it to some degree). Luckily past Kyle was smart enough to plan for that and it ends up being a good indexing point, so these things wont move until rocked a little bit.
I made up one set, half way through realizing that I was using the wrong damn spacing and lost a few shelves, which pisses me right off but I REALLY don't like cutting stuff back apart for some reason, so I went along with it.
I also had this great idea to cut feet on the CNC plasma that could be used to either bolt them to each other, or castors, or eventually the idea is to build a whole new workbench and this would be the spacing between the table top and cabinets.
This thing won't let me do any more than 10 images in one post, so I will continue on below..
I picked up some of these months ago and use them on a regular basis.. I REALLY like that you can remove the trays and they index. They're probably nowhere near the quality of the Sortimo stuff, but this whole project cost was probably 2 or 3 of their bins.
http://www.princessauto.com/en/detail/parts-organizer-with-removable-bins/A-p8439226e
So, since I liked them and then all the sudden they were out I found them on the PA website, which won't let you ship to store and the shipping on 30 of these things was going to be $70, and I ain't payin' it. Called into their order centre or whatever it is, asked for ship to store, they said no but the store in the south had 60 en route, should be there in a week or so. This was all while I was away at work, timing was a little sketchy and I wanted them but I didn't follow up with the store.. The day after I got home I called and they had "more than 20", the lady was a real bitch about it too.. I conned the wife into going to PA (as a waypoint to somewhere she did want to go) and picked up 30 of the 32 they had (tried to get all of them, but the same lady who answered the phone took off with 2 for some reason), ended up being about $250. Got them home and this is what they looked like in my basement... The stack is taller than me, which makes me happy.
I had in mind for a rack, I just didn't know exactly how I was going to do it but this is what I came up with:
Not all that fancy, thats for sure.. But I need racks to make this work since lifting a bunch of these things off to get to the bottom one is going far against what I was trying to do. Went to Federal and picked up 90' of 1/2 x 1/2 x .065 and 48' of 1 x 1 x .065. Obviously this stuff isn't great, but for this kind of thing its perfect. It's light and cheap, which the cheap part is to some degree the idea of this project.
I got to Protospace and started cutting, with a bit of a plan.. which is exactly like me, a half of a plan which is almost certainly doomed to fail. I got the 1 x 1 all cut down, then cut down the 1/2 and then cut and angle on it so that the side structure piece had something to lift up on since it could be a pain to try and lift it from the handle. (side picture of the box explains it to some degree). Luckily past Kyle was smart enough to plan for that and it ends up being a good indexing point, so these things wont move until rocked a little bit.
I made up one set, half way through realizing that I was using the wrong damn spacing and lost a few shelves, which pisses me right off but I REALLY don't like cutting stuff back apart for some reason, so I went along with it.
I also had this great idea to cut feet on the CNC plasma that could be used to either bolt them to each other, or castors, or eventually the idea is to build a whole new workbench and this would be the spacing between the table top and cabinets.
This thing won't let me do any more than 10 images in one post, so I will continue on below..
