Small Parts Shop Storage?

[southrider]

Storing small parts in my shop - Looking for ideas OTHER THAN building something.

Currently have several generic large yellow stacking organizers (like sold @ Home Depot, etc.) filled with nuts, bolts, small parts, etc. and need a few more. Galvanized outdoor hardware can easily fill a couple of these alone. Then you have electrical, plumbing, motorcycle and bicycle parts, etc.

When stacking it gets AWFUL cumbersome to lift and move several to find the one you are looking for, get what you need, then put everything back.

I KNOW I can build a tower with drawer slides - BUT - I have a LOT of projects on my itinerary at the moment, and am just feeling lazy.

Saw the Milwaukee Packout and got excited - but it looks like only the "toolbox" option has slides, not the organizers. Sortainers are RIDICULOUSLY priced. I'm NOT looking for another "stacking" solution, and the tower does NOT need to be mobile.

Is anyone aware of a reasonably priced system that allows slide out drawer type storage for removable parts organization? Willing to spend a little to store several (6-8)in some type of tower in my shop.

 

[GarryMartin]

Raaco have some fabulous storage options, including towers with hundreds of parts drawers in them. Give them a Google...

 

[FestitaMakool]

Agree with Garry here, Raaco is well worth a look.
Raaco do almost all from small domestic use to professional systems.

Over here Milwaukee Packout is ridiculously expensive, more expensive than systainers.

 

[southrider]

Thank Y'all - I'll check them out!

 

[southrider]

Unfortunately this won't work for my needs. Still requires lifting the whole organizer out of the cart, setting it down somewhere else, then opening to use.

I'm looking for a system with drawer slides that allows faster access without organizer removal.

 

[Samo]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CcbWblUFTZw/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

 

[Peter_C]

Harbor Freight comes to mind for CHEAP! Their tool boxes could provide a lot of storage.
Or about as cheap as you are going to get there is...https://www.harborfreight.com/search?q=storage bins

 

[semenza]

Try Akro-Mils . They have a full line of parts bins and rack / shelving units. There are dividers and small bins to fit into the larger ones.  Some of the shelf and rack systems get pricey but the bins can be put on regular shelves from whatever source. Big box snap together shelving etc.  I have a bunch on shelves for the things that are too big for Plano cases.

    Plano unit ----

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    Akro-Mils bins --- There are a bunch of sizes. These are the Shelf Bins (not stackable) Roughly 4" tall x 6 1/2" wide and 23" long.

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Seth

 

[Packard]

I bought a small parts bin rack and bins from Northern Tool.  They have many sizes and both wall mounted and free standing racks.
https://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/NTESearch?storeId=6970&ipp=48&Ntt=parts+bins

This is the small rack (with bins) that I bought for $30.00.  Larger size racks are available too. 

 

[southrider]

Thanx again to everyone contributing - I don't want to go with bins for 2 reasons:

1) Even with a dust collection system there is STILL an inordinate amount of dust created that gets EVERYWHERE.
2) While primarily for shop use we still occasionally go mobile to repair our rental properties, or even at our own place which is on 6 acres (there is ALWAYS something that needs to be fixed, improved, or changed.

I'm really looking for a cabinet with drawer slides that will hold some type of lidded organizer bins.

May end up having to build some shallow drawers similar to the sys-az, and install in a melamine cabinet on wheels.

Please keep posting any ideas!

 

[guybo]

maybe a bottom tool box used lot for sale everywhere or this

 

[Packard]

In that case, Milwaukee's Pack-out drawer system would seem to be ideal.  It is a tough product, easily transportable and has covered bins.  (But not cheap.)

 

[GoingMyWay]

It looks like Raaco S293 CarryLite Shelving meets your requirements, though I have no idea about its availability in the US.

Or you could make something like this, but maybe make all the shelves pull out slides:=719s

 

[southrider]

I've looked hard at the Milwaukee Packout - Unfortunately the organizers can't be put in drawers or on slides. Only the toolbox is in a drawer unit - and QUITE costly.

Don't see the Raaco readily available in the US - at least not their full line. Their website make it hard to put a system together.

Really like the guys homemade "pie safe" type of unit, just looks like a lot of time involved. Looked at Dettmore's youtube channel too, he apparently had someone make his drawer housings.

So far I'm still leaning towards a Melamine LR32 unit with inexpensive drawer slides mounted to shallow drawers - housing "any" brand of organizers - but STILL looking!

 

[dicktill]

Don't see the Raaco readily available in the US - at least not their full line. Their website make it hard to put a system together.

Try Newark Electronics:https://www.newark.com/search?st=raaco sorter&ICID=I-RS-STM7REC-0
I have bought most of mine from them, and with a reasonably sized order, shipping, even from their UK warehouse is free IIRC. You may have to poke around their website to find individual drawers if you want them (I advise the Handybox with 4 drawers), or different size bins, etc.

 

[Vtshopdog]

Don’t know if this might work for you or if they even still make it, Got this Craftsman at Lowes on a whim a few years ago but never got around to putting anything in it. Nice full extension slides and latching drawers but nothing to keep contents in place if you drop or invert the box. They stack and latch, think it was $30-ish then
(so probably $90 in 2022 LOL)

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[southrider]

Yeah - that would be reasonable enough - but again not secured storage for travel. Looking to have 6-8 large organizers that can be quickly accessed AND quickly thrown in a truck, on the golf cart, etc. without mixing all the contents.

THANX!

 

[Duckler]

I have a pediatric crash cart that I bought on Craigslist about two years ago. Brand new they are mucho dinero. It is made of aluminum and has 9 or 10 drawers on full-extension slides. Cart is About 50 inches high, by 17 inches deep and 28 inches wide.
It is made for use in the Emergency Department. The drawer fronts are color-coded according to some standard. Like the Red drawer is always for a certain item, etc.
Cart is on easy roll casters with a brake on each wheel. Two of the wheels pivot.
If you can find one of these it is very nice.
Sometimes dental offices get new equipment. But I have not really figured out where to go for the used variety of this stuff.

 

[rvieceli]

You may also want to take a look at the Keter organizers as well
https://www.keter.com/us_en/tools-storage-and-diy/small-part-organizers.html

They make a good mobile solution and are designed to keep the parts where you put them.

Lowes has one of them.
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Keter-9-40-in-Resin-Tool-Box/3083761

Ron

 

[rvieceli]

Also before you go to the trouble and expense of making something with slides, think about how you would use it. I think that pulling a case out on a drawer and the opening and picking out stuff would only be convenient for a few of the spaces. Top ones would be too high and the bottom ones too low. More than likely you would find that you would pull the case out and put it on a convenient surface like a bench get you stuff and put it back. If the storage unit was not near a bench you might put a surface on a slide at a convenient height that you could pull out.

I use a regular tool cabinet and top chest with Schaller boxes for my small parts but I don’t need to be mobile with them.
https://www.schallercorporation.com/

Ron