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jon f mn · Sep 12, 2020

This one is me. My kids laugh about the bucket of "stuff", not just bolts. And it mostly looks like that because I always have to dump it to find the one I need. And yes I have actual bolt bins too, but when the bins let me down it's frequently in the bucket.

Traditional Farmer · Sep 12, 2020

I have buckets,boxes and tubs of bolts, with the way bolts have gone up in price lately I've become rich.(LOL)

john in la · Sep 12, 2020

So is this the bucket where you put bolts left over after doing a rebuild ??????

chuck machinist · Sep 12, 2020

That bucket of bolts, goes in my bolt Bin , On rainy days. CM

DaveBN · Sep 12, 2020

I have old metal coffee cans for "spare" nuts and bolts. I squirt a little oil in there to keep them from rusting. And yes, the one I need is always on the bottom.
Dave

Bob Collins · Sep 12, 2020

How many rebuilds do you need to do before you have enough parts left over to build another one?

db4600 · Sep 12, 2020

Do the old metal crisper drawers count? Good! I’m covered.

There is stuff in them that are 3rd generation. Priceless family heirlooms.

Dachshund · Sep 12, 2020

Yup....Go through them ever so often and sort them out. Ones I think I will NEVER need, I give them to the neighbors - that way, I know who has them when I DO need them....
Back in the USMC, we called them "Lifer Lockers" because every guy who had been around awhile had one full of bolts and assorted small parts that were impossible to find elsewhere.

tractorkrum · Sep 12, 2020

I was at an auction one time and bought a several five gallon pails of bolts and hardware. I also got a good quality 15 inch crescent wrench that was missing the thumb turning screw. Well, when I got home with all of it we were looking over my purchases and my brother reached down and picked the thumb turning screw out of the top of one of the pails. My lucky day! And yes I sorted all of those pails of bolts and hardware.

Rich'sToys · Sep 12, 2020

I still have a couple containers of misc. bolts. I also have several other containers that are sorted by size-3/8" in one, 5/16" in another, etc. It's amazing how many times those containers have saved me a trip to the hardware store!

Majorman · Sep 12, 2020

I used to carry a wooden box in my service van where all old bolts, half worn parts, chain links and odds and ends got thrown, (never throw anything away syndrome). It used to get turned out on a lot of farms I visited to get sorted though by farm staff and they usually found what they wanted. That was thirty years ago and the remnants of that box are still in my workshop today and still provide the odd useful part.

rvirgil_KS · Sep 12, 2020

And don't forget the companion collection of jars and small miscellaneous parts drawers filled with small screws. Bailed me out a number of times. I keep an old cake pan to dump them in to sort for the one I need.

wjytexas · Sep 12, 2020

Ha! I am much more organized. I have MOSTLY fine thread in one can and MOSTLY coarse in another and long bolts in another bin. And there is the plastic tub with odd stuff in it. Now that I thinnkk on it maybe I'm not so organized.

dzc3 · Sep 12, 2020

I have a draw in my tool box with all sorts of misc. things. When I drove over the road I had a "Bag of Tricks" contents mirrored the drawer at home. Got me out of a few jams

kcm.MN · Sep 12, 2020

Not just you Jon. Not just you! I have several.

The wife even has one of her junk drawers dedi......no, I can't say 'dedicated', but there's some bolts in there anyhow! *lol*

Traditional Farmer · Sep 12, 2020

I sort some on snowy and rainy days but then there are thing like the two huge tubs full of 1" coarse thread nuts I bought up at the Marion PA
auctions for $5,I've used them for about everything.

Steve@Advance · Sep 12, 2020

And when you find that "one perfect bolt", that means since there was 1, there has to be 3 more just like it, and yes they all have to match exactly...

Two hours later driving to the parts store with bloody fingers from finding the drywall screw at least 10 times...

Then they only had 3 alike, that didn't match the first one I found...

Back to the shop, "Oh that's where those go, that's why there were only 3... Didn't need them after all!"

SkipperII · Sep 12, 2020

I even have a mini bucket in the cross box of my truck, it bails my rear out several times a year when I'm out in the field, fixing my buddies haying equipment.

Brown Swiss · Sep 12, 2020

that is the special bucket, has the odd size only use one a year type that you can't find anywhere on a Sunday bolt bucket!

bmack95hd · Sep 12, 2020

This is how I do it, no more 20yr. bucket for me. This one Gr.5 Zinc Course Thread 1/4”-1/2”. Doing another bin with some larger diameter Gr.8’s.

showcrop · Sep 12, 2020

(quoted from post at 08:02:07 09/12/20) This is how I do it, no more 20yr. bucket for me. This one Gr.5 Zinc Course Thread 1/4"-1/2". Doing another bin with some larger diameter Gr.8 s.
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Bmack, I am with you. I bought a set of bins thirty years ago. It has probably saved me a hundred trips to town and hours dumping and looking through cans and buckets, and enabled me to do better work. When I took over a service territory I eliminated the prior tech's bin of oddball stuff, and replaced it with designated bins. When I got promoted to managing other techs I eliminated their junk boxes and got them set up with bins. The thing is we knew what we needed and it was easy to keep the stock up. The junk boxes and cans just gave them a place to throw junk and then waste their hours looking for something that was used three weeks earlier, but not restocked.

504 · Sep 12, 2020

I started last week to put hardware in marked bins. Another year I may have half of the cans emptied.

Janicholson · Sep 12, 2020

I agree with jon f mn. There are no wave washer equipped 2-1/4" grade 5 bolts in the bins. The bucket, (or in my case the plastic containers with kinda alike fasteners) is better than a trip to town to not find that bolt there either. If I know I had it it is still there. Never allow a Whitworth bolts/nuts to be placed anywhere except the 1955 Norton spares!! Jim

Jim in N.M. · Sep 12, 2020

I go to the Bolt&nut store and buy "Floor" sweepings and in the winter months, I pour them out on a flat table, sort them out, and put them in bins. Usually buy about 40lb.boxes for about $25.00!! Jim in N.M.

bmack95hd · Sep 12, 2020

Yep, bolt and nut company I retired from sold floor sweepings in quarter kegs. Popular item, they have branches in NM.

old-9 · Sep 12, 2020

I have some of these very handy.
buckett boss

DMartin9N-2N · Sep 12, 2020

Good evening: Related info: I have a device sort of like a dustpan, except it serves as an open-face funnel. You can dump your loose nuts & bolts into it, then when done just pour them back into the can.

Dennis M. in W. Tenn.

SVcummins · Sep 13, 2020

Theres a cylinder clevis pin in there

randyrenfro7 · Sep 13, 2020

My dad came through the depression and he saved used nails in a can where he would put some used motor oil on them. Talk about thrifty.

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