All the organization is pointless if you have too much stuff!
I need help, might need therapy, but let’s start with help. Looking for ideas, tips, widgets and gadgets that you found useful to keep your garage/shop clean.
My work bench is buried in stuff, tool box not well sorted, if it’s a flat surface I have stuff on it. I keep stuff, from cars I no longer have, because the possibility me having another air cooled VW is a real possibility… or my kids…or someone I know.
My wife says I have to many cars is there such a thing? I start a cleaning session and invariably I find that lost widget in my pile and get side track- (this part might work on the tractor). Attention deficit Disorder I think they call it . anyhow appreciate any ideas, this winter I just have outdone myself and I need a serious spring clean day/week.
Although technically it's a mobile shop, I enjoyed @AndyG 's wisdom shared regarding his work trailer setup:
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I use Stanley small parts boxes for hardware. By removing some of the bins inside, I can often store the small tools that are used with the hardware. For example, I can store the solder, the soldering iron, flux, desoldering tools etc. all together. The problem becomes that when you have a lot of these storage boxes the one you want is always on the bottom of the pile. To help with that, I built this storage shelf.
The handles have a label indicating the contents. After taking the pictures below, i purchased a pack of multi colored round 1/2” stickers that I stuck on the right front corner of each box. One color for electrical, a different color for nuts and bolts, etc. this allows me to keep the trays roughly grouped together based on broad categories of contents.
I can store a whole hardware store in about a 2x2 foot section of floor space.
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That rack, wow!
I maxed out the storage along the garage wall by using wooden crates reclaimed from the work dumpster and freebie lockers from a local school demolition. My shop area is in the single stall of a 3-car garage. I have to achieve "European" levels of efficient storage to keep stuff mostly organized.
5 s is 5 ways to shitcan everything, the asshole who came up with that whole concept must have been a real prick who talk many Fortune 500 companies to use it, just like six sigma , another flavor of the year…