Organising tool drawers

Funnily enough this 'fuddy duddy' nomenclature is very apt for today as it is computer friendly and allows easy sorting especially when applied to file names.

By the way you are entering all your tools into a computer database aren't you.

Rik - Nice One !!! - Dennis

People might be joking about keeping a list of all tools on the pc but one would be useful in the event of an insurance claim and in assessing the total value of them.

I find it useful to have a printed-out list of my stock of silver steel (partly to avoid running out of a size) and reamers and eventually I am going to have to settle down with imperial and metric mics and go through all my small to tiny drills. Just how I will store them then, I don't know.

This store-keeping job would be more satisfying if one had unlimited finances for fitted racks and drawers.

Ah yes, missed that, but depends of course to which/what military organisation and country you refer to.

Merlin & Bazyle,

I do indeed intend to have a record on computer, DVD/CD, iPhone as well as iPad.

The one on the iPhone will of course accompany me when out and about, making it easy to check what I have or don't, thus preventing me from duplicating tools, which incidentally, I have been known to  do, much to my annoyance.

I do have a DB of the books I have, and that has stopped me from duplicating some.

I've ordered a can of foam, too expensive to buy locally, so will be trying that soon.

Waiting for a handle to be delivered to finish off fitting the QC to the BH600G.

Watch this, and my other, posts for updates soon.

Geoff - It's sunny again!

Edited By OuBallie on 31/05/2013 18:31:34

Hi Merlin

Unlimited funds are not necessary. I picked up a 15 drawer Bisley cabinet - mentioned in my earlier post -recently. Retail price £130 + vat ! deep pockets needed indeed. However I saw one recently by the metal skip as I was dumping rubbish at the local tip. After a little negotiation with the "Dragon Lady" in charge I got it for a tenner. The nest of 42 metal drawers also shown in that post I bought ( maybe 20 years ago) as scrap for £5 if I remember correctly. It's surprising how some brasso and elbow grease improves the aesthetics of these things!

Regards

Norman

Edited By NJH on 31/05/2013 18:32:09

These things always happen to other people.

I have recently had a reshuffle and now I have all round and square files together, which simplifies things.

I also have a board six inches wide and about a yard long,,,,,,,,, well, I can't describe it and I'll try to send a photo.

Blimey! Why is posting photos kept such a secret?

These are racks for homemade lathe tool posts and for needle files so that I can immediately choose whichever shape I want.

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Round here thats called a plank.

You never disappoint John, nice one

Geoff - VFD for the TS & Marlow to do.

It does seem that the more you try to tidy the more space it takes, Cabinets and boards and boxes and tins still need a space to accomodate.

Thats why that pile on the workbench is so usefull. genius knows no bounds.

Clive

Whereabouts in the UK would a piece of wood 6 inches by a yard be called a plank, without first knowing the thickness?

Even if it were three inches thick, I wouldn't call it a plank if it were, say, only one yard long.

Six inches by three inches by a yard? Thick and short - do you have two of them? If so you can use them for intelligence testing

Neil

Commiserations, Merlin. I take it you have been burgled as how else does one obtain empty bench space.

Spent ten imutes thinking my Workmate had been stolen this morning as the last time I remember it was out the front. Turned out I had tidied it away in the back bedroom. Unusual behaviour. I must have been sleep-tidying.

Edited By Bazyle on 01/06/2013 13:45:33

Another philosophy: big fat black lettering on big labels, and you will soon get used to it.

Space - sigh...................

Bought a new CNC,

Not because I wanted the CNC it's just that in the advert it was the only machine stood in an empty warehouse, had it delivered and all I got was the machine, someone had stolen all the empty space in transit.......................

Another flat battery in the car park of life...........

MikeW,

Brilliant idea, as we are so used to them now, what with computers and road signs. Oh yes!

Bazyle,

You beat me to it That bench is far too clean and devoid of stuff.

Just received a grinding wheel dresser and took it into my HobbyRoom indoors, (who knows why) together with the remote control unit for the milling machines' VFD as I needed to put a speed control pot in it, and then spent about 30min searching for it, with much Anglo-Saxon being voiced.

Found it on top of a book where I put it of course.

JohnS,

How in blue blazes did you squeeze that machine in?

You must have a magic wand or summit.

Geoff - Reading posting.

> took it into my HobbyRoom indoors, (who knows why) together with the remote control unit for the milling machines' VFD

Is it wise to remotely operate the mill from inside the house

Neil

On planks... I went to put up a small shelf from a slightly rough-finished plank I found on the pavement a few weeks ago. It had some numbers scrawled on it in a Gallic hand. About 1/2" x 4" x 3'. After twisting the head off a steel screw, then still having difficulty putting a second screw in even with a pilot hole, it finally dawned on me that this was a hardwood plank, probably oak. Replaced in the 'useful' pile and a bit of old pine shelving used instead.

Neil

Another smart alec

Ah but, if I really try, I can just see into the workshop from the window, so there.

Geoff - Just back from seeing GD, so worn out, but content.