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05-24-2011, 02:18 PM
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| 06 Super National Champ   Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Stark Industries Bar and Grill
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|  Tool Organizing - Drawers in the tool chest
I have several Hansen socket holders and have been picking up magnetic holders from Lowe's to store all the extras. These are old pics of the socket drawer. It's much neater now. Might have to get updated pics. For the most part, Inch on the left, Metric on the right.   I made this for the ratchets that I use. 1/2" ply with holes drilled for the drive head then covered with drawer liner foam. The spare ratchets are on the left with the extensions. I put the adapters with the ratchets.     Finished the ratchet drawer today. Made the tool holder from aluminum sheet, extruded aluminum, and some short 1/8" aluminum rivets. Made another holder for the spare ratchets and put all of the extensions and universals on a socket holder.      |
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05-24-2011, 02:25 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Houston, TX
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Damn....that looks nice! Much better than my tool chest! I spend too much time trying to find the socket that I am looking for....
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05-24-2011, 02:28 PM
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| 06 Super National Champ Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Stark Industries Bar and Grill
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If you can build a crawler you can make the crap to keep things neat.  Not hard to do, just have to make yourself do it. | |
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05-24-2011, 02:38 PM
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| R.I.P. Chip  Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: The Crawler State
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Like $20 a piece, and you need a minimum of 6 of them. 1/4, 3/8, and 1/2 for each SAE+metric. | |
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05-24-2011, 02:42 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Castle Rock, WA
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Wow, super clean. Nice work. I'm like Jeremy, it takes me 3 minutes to find one 8mm socket, even though I have like 4 of them.
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05-24-2011, 02:45 PM
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| owner, Holmes Hobbies LLC  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Volt up! Gear down!
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Glad to see you have enough free time to fab up some stuff still  Looking sharp! I will have to use some of those ideas for my own work areas, thanks for sharing! |
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05-24-2011, 02:49 PM
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| 06 Super National Champ Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Stark Industries Bar and Grill
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 Seriously though - I waited and caught them on sale. Same thing I do with most all of my Craftsman tools. Wait until it's on sale. | |
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05-24-2011, 02:55 PM
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| R.I.P. Chip Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: The Crawler State
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$60 for a full set shipped. | |
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05-24-2011, 03:29 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Sumter
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If I'm not completely off my rocker...I believe I bought my set of those organizers for $7 a piece at Sears around Christmas or some other holiday where they were on sale.
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05-24-2011, 08:16 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2008 Location: Baltimore
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05-26-2011, 12:34 PM
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| 06 Super National Champ Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Stark Industries Bar and Grill
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Working on the file sets now. Small precision files are done. Bigger stuff is next.   |
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05-26-2011, 02:11 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Mt Vernon
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Man that looks really good. I need to clean my tool box up some, I may use your idea for the ratchets.... I've never seen that done before.
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05-26-2011, 02:28 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2007 Location: Taylors Falls just hanging with the MNRCRC crew.
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That's a super nice set up, it would be nice to be that organized.
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05-26-2011, 04:50 PM
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| Rock Crawler  Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: KCRC
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Thought I was the only one with analtivity around here....  Nice job!! |
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05-26-2011, 04:58 PM
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| PapaGriz Yo  Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: In the garage building the wife a crawler
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I wish I had that nice of a selection of tools. Let alone the time to organize them. |
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05-26-2011, 07:44 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: NE Ohio
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Nice work |
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05-26-2011, 09:48 PM
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| Oppan Gangnam Style   Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Shingle Springs
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Looking good man! Looks alot like the main drawer of my tool box, nice and neat. I never could understand how most of the guys I worked with had a 4:30 drawer.
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05-27-2011, 09:34 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Universal City, TX
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Definitely subscribing to this thread. Some great ideas in here. |
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05-27-2011, 03:14 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Rocky Ford
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Saw this over on pirate as well... Very nice! |
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05-27-2011, 08:01 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Prosser
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http://www.harborfreight.com/3-8-eig...ail-39722.html They may not look as fancy, but IMO they are ALOT more functional. They are not near as fragile, and its really nice that you can grab the entire set of sockets and crawl under a car knowing you will have the right socket. The price is quite nice too. I bet i have 6 or 7 sticks of sockets on those things! | |
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