Lemme see your bolt bins

Dustyah

Member
How do y'all organize your bolts washers nuts etc, gimme some good ideas mine are in metal drawers sorta like library card catalog, show me what ya got or what I'm missing lol Dusty
 
I bought a unit from Sears about 3 decades ago...about 24 drawers in 3 rows...I mounted it on a steel frame attached to the shop wall. About as decade ago I bought a few dozen cubbyholes filled with pipe fittings at an auction. Cleaned out the cubbies and gave them to a friend that I ran into at the auction- about 50 miles away. Didn"t need them, no room for them...I have floor to ceiling cubbies on 2 walls in the shop. He was happy.
 
Used to work at a motorcycle shop, we'd do oil changes and hve lots of empty quarts - I would cut two open like trays and keep one on each side of the bike, bolts from the LH side would go in that "tray", RH side in the other. Then I realized they'd stack back in the case boxes like modular shelves.
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The lone box is one I'm in the middle of sorting/organizing (I use an old cookie tray and dump the catchall coffee cans when they're full and spend the evening sorting on the couch while the wife does her needlepoint).
 
This is my bolt storage. A steel bin offered by MF fasteners years back, which had nuts, washers, lock washers, and bolts from 1" to 3" long, 1/4" to 1/2" diameter and to the right of it t is a bin that I built from 1/4"luan to store 5/8" and 3/4" bolts and hdw. The little drawers above hold all kinds of small screws, round head bolts and nuts.
Loren
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Tall grey one is my sae bolts. All kinds of stuff in the other ones.
Metric bolts, small pipe fittings, hydraulic fittings, electrical, small engine parts, etc. I still have some empty drawers yet.
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I don't have any nice drawers or racks. I use the large plastic coffee jugs and mark the contents on the lids. They don't last long but I have an endless supply.
 

Mine is like ACG's. I bought the set, already stock maybe 25 years ago. I restock from the nearby fastener store. That set has saved me so much time running to the store over the years.
 

I use the plastic removable bins with the mounting strips you can screw to the wall. Get them at Lowes IIRC. Work okay. I'd rather have nice steel cabinets but haven't found anything cheap or free yet.
 

yellow cab is for stainless and brass stuff
big cabinets for 1/4" thru 3/4
small drawers on wall are for nails
small drawers on bench are for tek screws and #6 thru #10 machine screws... electronic parts, and misc.
I need about 3 more walls
john

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why go to all that fuss just throw by size into five gallon buckets 1/4 5/16 3/8 so and so forth them leave them sit outside in the rain and snow so when need something another time they are rusty mess or froze together.
then you have a good reason to go to hardware store. first before you leave make sure if your wife would like to go with for an ice cream cone or something that way you won't be in as much dodo.
oh this plan does work I know
 
Several months ago I bought two sets similar to yours for $50 and they are still sitting on a table in the garage. So I will get something done with them one of these days too!
 

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