The shop is *slightly* better organized...

Post date: May 13, 2011 8:31:33 PM

I noticed recently there were a couple of places in my shop where certain tools and supplies "congregated," places where I was using those same tools over and over again (and, of course, not putting them away). Makes sense, really. So I thought it would be great to simply make that the permanent home (versus the rolling tool cabinet) and to have something there to corral those tools.

I found the perfect solution: toolbox trays. Normally when I use a toolbox, the top tray just gets in the way. I often end up taking it out but since I'm a packrat it finds it's way onto a dusty shelf somewhere, lonesome, forlorn, forgotten. Now they have found new life organizing some of the shop's workstations:

Drill Press

Tray holds:

• drill bit index
• sharpening fluid (lazy-man's tapping/drilling fluid!)
• random non-indexed drill bits (Forstners, brad-point, spade)
• center punches

and most importantly, the chuck key!

Metalworker's Vise

Tray holds:

• hacksaws (full-size and mini)
• various files and rasps