Okay, spool and roll goods belong together, but what’s the adjacency to paint? Is the relationship flat items? Best thing is when you get a 2nd cabinet you can swap drawers. Admirable in some ways that you unspooled cable to make it fit, but sheesh…
I'm glad you clarified the useful purpose of drawers vs. where things go to die... I've worked in the cabinet business for 51 years and have set up several work departments and have found drawers are a great way to keep things organized and give easy access. I also place my drawers in order in which assembly in a given department is done.
Not only have I reached the Professor Farnsworth point in my life where "And this is the drawer where I keep assorted lengths of wire" is true, but I spend 40 minutes watching and envying someone's better wire drawers
What you got there, my friend, is what we med techs call a crash cart, atop which commonly sits a defibrillator. It houses EVERYTHING that might be needed in the event of cardiac emergency, & that lock box is present to store meds/controlled substances. I've stocked way too many of those suckers, top to bottom, & it's indeed the zenith of organizational use. Kudos on a fine addition!
I love watching organization videos to make work flow better. I had a small garage that I was sufficient with but moved to a home without one and have had to battle for 7 years without one. I then lost my father and grandfather and inherited so much more I didn't have room for but couldn't let go. I now have a 32x48 shop being built and I'm so excited to get this problem off my back. No more working in the sun/rain/snow puddles of mud and a flat space to work on vehicles again. And maybe get to enjoy woodworking/Welding.
Adam got so excited when he saw these online that he immediately shipped his drawers. There's nothing worse than looking in your drawers and seeing a huge mess in there. Clean drawers are vital to a good day in the shop.
It has wheels. It's durable and has a lot of compartments. Put subsets of all the things you use most frequently. That's what it's for, as a medical cart; it moves around with all the stuff that nurses use most frequently so they don't have to run to the store room. Utility is a function of convenience, accessibility, and organization.
no, its not a shelf that is regularly hauled around. This is to be used for small shorter movements within a room/lab probably. Drawers racks are not for hauling between corridors
What better to watch Adam talking about tools and draws? He picked the lock of the draw!! I can feel my own grin on my own face when Adam decided to pick the lock!
The key I've found to useful drawer space is LABELLING!!! Without that seemingly insignificant step all gets lost (saw that on a MB episode with the library card drawers next to the lathe - when someone needed something they would just flip from drawer to drawer - IT EVEN HAD SLOTS FOR DESCRIPTIONS TO GO ON EACH DRAWER!?! This vdi was so good to watch, knowing it would do for you what drawer cabinet things havee done for me - esrecially that point where you get it filled and find you somehow have more space and less clutter! AWESOME!!!
Never have I ever come across someone who thinks about shop reorganizing like I do until now! It’s totally a dynamic exercise ❤. As my needs and uses evolve so does my organizational methods. Thanks Adam!
Few things bring me joy like re-organizing my hobby room. It makes me so excited to spend time in there. My frustrations with clutter make me incapable of not dwelling on it and trying to plan up a more efficient and aesthetically pleasing way to organize things. I’m tempted to get something like this!
And big kudos to the editors of these videos! I love your style! Things like keeping the audio going whilst other things are actually happening is really nice. Makes me smile every time :)
One thing I've learned watching a lot of professional fabricators and technicians of different sorts is that their tool storage system is as much as tool as the implements they actually store and employ. For rolling carts like that, I tend to think "purpose-storage" and putting tools surrounding a function or type of work, rather than mixed general storage, which makes less use of the rolling function. To me, that looks like it would be an excellent airbrush equipment and paints storage cart. The notch in the back of the one drawer from the removal of the locking lid would be a good compressor cord passthrough.
That’s true when _all_ your drawers are junk drawers - but everybody needs _one_ good junk drawer, that’s where things go that don’t have an obvious place.
I opened a drawer not too long ago that I had realized I had not opened in nearly 15 years and found some specialty tools I bought in Europe I thought long lost and $50.00 I put in for a rainy day.
Or drawers swho's contents have outgrown the alloted space, i.e. a beginner screwdriver collection can fit in one drawer, but as the collection grows, you likely should have one for phillips, one for flat, one for square/robertson, ect.
I don't know how many times I've watched this video, but It I appreciate moments like. @ 39:45 this that you keep in your videos... "To err is human" Adam, thank you for showing us that it is okay to make mistakes, because it is a major part of growing. You are my David Attenborough!
As a machinist, I find keeping specific/specialty end mills in their individual cases keeps them from bumping into each other in the drawer, also protects their edges. Particularly important for carbide cutters. The clear ones are best, but writing on the case with a sharpie makes it easy to find when looking for a specific one without opening them.
So great that he mentioned Covert Instruments and LockPickingLawyer. Awesome to see another favorite channel use the picking instruments. Also seems fitting that Adam would have those tools.
These are the videos I adore watching. Why? Adam says it himself not far in - process. Its not the outcome or the result but the process. Watching a brain pour out and ideas come together. Terrific.
A part of me would enjoy watching Adam try to design and layout a workspace of only 120 square feet for the many people out there working out of small sheds behind their homes. Things like deep high shelves with see in containers come in very handy i found.
It is a good day when Adam mentions LockPickingLawyer! 😅 Aside from that, I noticing Adam has alot of Medicial Equipment, safe to say they have good drawers and equipments like stools and such.
I love watching Adam’s videos, they are so comforting. It’s so nice to see someone get so genuinely excited over the little things in life like improving his storage methods. It’s also lovely for someone to be so knowledgeable about their field while being positive. A lot of people in his position might have ended up gatekeeping and condescending, but he is so happy to share his knowledge and cheerfully uplifts people in the maker community. He passes the vibe check with flying colors.
Oh, you beloved old Sage. Thank you for allowing yourself to evolve year-over-year and sharing your growth with us lay-people. One of the four pillars! Year-Over-Year improvement, followed by Brand Differentiation (Tested is clearly a brand), People Development & Culture (how we treat the people we've developed).
Seeing all these new drawers utilized neatly just makes me very happy. And the white tape over the green handles makes it blend more with the surroundings too, not that it had to.
Never really got Adam’s thing about drawers - well I did, and I didn’t: _deep_ drawers that can’t be pulled out all the way are where things go to die, that’s totally true. There are crap drawers and good drawers: good drawers are shallow, so things can’t hide underneath other things, and good drawers are drawers that can be pulled out until you can see what’s in the back.
It's probably mostly down to attention deficit. For a lot of us out of sight is out of mind to a greater extent than to someone who doesn't have to live with it. So it's a common strategy to store things in a way where we can always spot it just by looking around. It takes a lot more effort to internalize where something "lives" when we start putting them in drawers, and to maintain it as well. (this is also probably why everything is very clearly labelled on the outside of Adams drawers). I know that for me personally, using drawers even if they are organized and not too deep usually means I need to open and look in all of them, cause I simply cannot remember where stuff is. Or I just forget it exists entirely. The only drawer I have that works for me is one that specifically only has water color tubes in it, organized by color temperature. If I try to have anything else live in there my attempts at organization will simply implode.
@@bluefish239 With you all the way.....I have a system of cardboard A4 copy paper boxes all stored in a cabinet made from 20mm square tubing, 8 rows by 5 rows high, and the boxes have all my "good" junk that I've stored for 40 years and occasionally delve into for something......indexing them is done by numbering the boxes.....all 36 of them....... and then photographing and making a print of the contents and stored in a folder........when i want something it's easy peasy to browse the prints in the folder and go to box no. whatever and it's all there.
Yup this is my system. I want to be able to see everything instantly., plus it keeps the dust off. To me junk drawers are when you have a thing, don’t know what the thing is so you just chuck it in a drawer so you don’t have to think about it. Work out if you actually need it first then assign it to a drawer with similar items.
Adam, your maker space is such an inspiration. Although I have a fraction of the space of one of your rooms I love your organization ideas!! Thank you for all your guidance videos!
By my experience in aged care, this looks like a cabinet designed to transport medication to room to room in a health care facility, hence the locks on the draws that only the medication nurse or doctor would have the keys for.
100% saw the thumbnail, and clocked it as medical equipment. I have seen so many cabinets like this in my travels as a chronically ill person. Congrats Adam on a creative re-use!🎉
That Cart would be amazing for someone who does Miniature work/model making. One Drawer for cutting tools. One for Styrene of different types. One for Greeblies. One for Paints. One for Brushes. One for glues. The large side parts for bases, or WIP Models.
How are these videos of shop organization so relaxing? i have just overhauled my hobby cave, much like Adam, based on some new drawers and it could have been a few hours, but i decided everything needed to be moved just a bit and 'first order' improved, its frustrating and makes a mess but super satisfying when complete.
Adam is using lock picking lawyer's picks. Two cool UA-cam greats. Love the fact Adam has changed his views on drawers in a usual Adam way. Mass enthusiasm and geekiness
The blue organizers in the bottom that you dismissed :( are Akro Bins and they deserve better. They're my favorite organizing unit because they are stackable and more importantly both inspectable and *hangable* thanks to the lip on the back side. This allows you to have as much vertical space as you want filled with neatly contained yet *visible* and *portable* nooks for your things. They come in a variety of dimensions and have accessories like dividers and lids, as well as various mounting solutions. Please do reconsider!
The problem with Akro bins when you hang them on the wall is that they're open to the environment and therefore they collect dust. I particularly don't like the dark blue Akro bins because it makes it harder to see what's in the bin, especially if you have 2 or 3 somewhat similar but different fasteners or whatever in the bin. The light blue plastic bins used for the other drawers of this storage cabinet are much better because they allow more light in. Somebody who's 30 with near perfect eyesight might not care so much, but when you get to 60 and your eyesight isn't great and perhaps you're working in a shop that doesn't have the best or most ideal lighting, you will find that you want light- colored high visibility containers and trays for everything. I've even gone so far as to spray the inside of my toolbags with white spray paint so that anything that falls to the bottom of the bag will at least be backlit to some extent.
Wow, just so happens I've been looking for a drawer solution to build my new garage shop. I have had the exact opinion about drawers for years - they hide things away, and it adds an extra step to retrieve a tool (have to open the drawer first obviously). Also they are much more expensive than something like a pegboard or "shadow board." However... in my case, I now have a very small space to work with, and when you consider that to lay out tools in a way that they are organized neatly and easily retrievable, then what you need is surface area. And to maximize surface area per volume, you need drawers. Arguably they also make a shop more aesthetically pleasing. I've been trying to decide whether to build my own from scratch or just buy them pre-made. Thanks for the video!
I'm in the same boat as you are. The make/buy decision is an especially tough call. None of the commonly available, reasonably priced consumer companies (Craftsman, Husky, US general) make anything with lots of shallow drawers. Adam's "new" cabinets are commercial/industrial units and very expensive unless you're lucky enough to find them second hand. Building is very time consuming and usually more expensive than an off-the-shelf solution. You do get something custom tailored to your space. But if you have a preference for steel drawers over wood... It would be awesome if one of the consumer companies sold cabinets empty and sold drawers sepatately in 1X, 2X, 3X, etc sizes so you could mix and match to your personal needs.
I love watching your organization videos. I’ve been slowly modifying my own workshop Im surprised that you haven’t done anything with gridfinity. It seems that it would be exactly your type of thing for drawers.
He isn't that much into digital modeling and 3D printing I am missing french cleats all over everything too, that doesn't keep me from enjoying Adam's workshop progress
I've found a love for those stackable drawers that you get at office supply stores. I use them for my art supplies. I designate them to specific art mediums and associated tools. I have multiples of things so I can have them in multiple drawers so I'm not hunting down small things like erasers, sharpeners, blades ... I just pull out the drawer for the medium I'm going to use and I have a portable container that has all my acrylic paint with brushes, or acrylic gouache with brushes and wet pallet or all my tools for working with clay. They are all labeled with adhesive vinyl. It's the storage solution my ADHD brain has always needed
I used to use white electrical tape, basically vinyl tape, to label drawers by writing on it with a Sharpie, but I have found that the print tends to go illegible after a couple of years of exposure to light. I have had better luck with medical or surgical tape, the cloth type stuff. Strangely, it seems to be only easily available in 1/2" or 1" width, and I'd really like to find some in 3/4 inch width.
One of the more useful organization videos I’ve watched. I appreciate how other makers store their supplies and tools, and I feel validated for keeping all scraps. If it’s useful, why throw it out?
I would use the blue tubs as wire dispensers, place each reel in the blue tub, and cut holes for the wires, maybe add a wooden rod across the middle of them as well so it's easier to spool the wire
Watching these organization videos has got me organizing to the point I can not only find things I'm looking for, but know where anything new is supposed to go. Thanks!
That's a great idea. I've been curious about 3D printers for a while now, but I don't really know much in the way of details. How much does a 3D printer for personal use, such as you envision fitting on top of that surface, cost?
@@GnomaPhobic Look up Ender 3 Videos for examples and its usually a few hundred at most for a "solid" 3D printer. Also depend on how much work you want to put in yourself to getting it dialed in just right
I've been rewatching Norm and New Yankee Workshop this whole week and hearing him saw 'draaaws' makes me smile every time! Nice medcart! Score! Are there differences between a Crash cart, triage, etc? An emergency room kit probably needs way more stuff with 1OR than say an EKG or other single-funtion move/storage? Is that the Jack White stool? Or is it too precious to sit on? :P
the supplies in the carts are different but the carts themselves are all the same. You dont buy a triage cart you buy a med cart and put triage stuff in it
The concept of First Order Retrievability has been incredibly influential in my life, but so has 'drawers are where things go to die'. To that end, I structure my working life such that everything I reasonably need frequently or not is always in 1 consistent spot. So even if I don't use it practically ever, it will be in the 1 exact place I intended to leave it, and that spot will be nearby things that are similar enough to make me remember where it is. What gets frustrating is that my coworkers do NOT believe in things like cleanliness, organization, F.O.R., so they will take my meticulous systems and do whatever they feel like and sometimes I have to spend time during my work hours resetting things to be as they should be to be their most efficient so that I can have an easier time.
i just love the fact that the chair, he sits on in almost every video, was partially made by my favourite musician. The connection between adam savage and jack white is the greatest kollaboration ever.
I keep a selection of desk and filing cabinet keys on my keychain. It is not unusable to find I have one that turns a lock on another lock or cabinet. At my last job we sent out a padlock with every unit we sold. All of the locks were keyed to the same key.
I bet that @InheritanceMachining loves a shout out by Adam Savage. That's pretty cool! And this storage is fantastic. Like you said, most medical furniture is built REALLY well.
I wonder what percentage of Adam's life has been moving things from one box to another, or building a new box to move something from an old box into that new box???
@Iivari Mokelainen quite the shop for one person, I'll say that! Not in terms of footprint, but certainly in its catalog of tools and materials. I still very much enjoy watching Adam build just about anything, but I do genuinely wonder sometimes about the seeming surplus of _everything_. If he's enjoying it, who are we to judge, though!
My thought exactly. He can spend hours and days "reorganising" the shop every time he acquires (or builds) a new set of organizers. Now keep your eyes open for a dental cabinet with its many shallow drawers that would be great for pens, pencils, and paper clips.
My mother is a nurse and every time her hospital upgrades their crash carts they let the staff have the old ones. My dad has used them for tool storage for decades and every few years he gets a better model. Those crash carts are the platonic ideal of first order of retrievability because lives depend on the most important stuff being the easiest to access.
nice to see how your wires have moved from the top to the bottom. I am also usually moving everything, but organizing and cleaning up is a profession in itself.
Funny how you said about sparing no expense for medical stuff. I literally just looked up a table the other day at my doctor's apt. I was intrigued because the table was on big clear roller blade wheels with a 4 leg chrome base like an office chair and a nice adjustable kidney bean shaped table top for the doctor to roll around and write on. Msrp on the thing....1800 bucks. Almost fell out of the chair when I saw the price.
if you ever wondered just how much time Adam spends in the cave? just observe the floor wear it has an amazing story to tell. Oh and you dont have to apologize for the camera lol we are just blessed for the time we have with you :) cheers.
"Omnium gatherum" is the term you are looking for, when you are looking for a place for your miscellany. It's the name of my folder where many unanswered emails go to die. Could be a final resting place for misfit tools. Keep up the amazing work. I adore the show!
This is such a great video to show people how lock picking really goes. Like Adam said most people only ever see TV/Film versions where its instant. Then you go on youtube and see Lock Picking Lawyer (and other channels like it) with people of super high skill breaking into locks in seconds.
Awesome! Was talking to a friend about your storage solutions. He said Adam does and has way more stuff then we need/use. My response was yeah that’s true, but I still learn so many useful things that translate to smaller “workshops”
I totally agree with Adam about drawers with specific purposes are great. Long ago I invested in ToolGrid, Toolbox Widget, Ernst organizers. Now I have specific drawers that I can even easily identify what is missing. By doing this now I find everything so easily and can put it back easily
I love my drawers. I love my drawer locks. I use them all. I know where everything is. Nothing gets lost or dusty. The dog and kids can't chew on my stuff. Long live the humble drawer.
I sense a repeat of my mistake - to fill the drawer. Never ceases to surprise me how much more of a thing reveals itself in the weeks after filling and labelling a drawer / divider. Expansion space is vital to organisation.
Speaking as a journeyman wireman of well over 20 years of experience hearing someone describe 14 AWG as big is humorous to me. To me a piece of 600 kcmil is starting to get big. A matter of perspective I guess. Thanks for helping me see different ways of viewing my work space in new ways!
Nice find,Adam! I have an older Homak cart which I believe is also a medical cart since it has the big rubber bumpers at each corner. Got it for free and turned it into my toolbox. Love it.
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what was the track playing during the problem solving 25:40
If you contact the manufacturer of that cart and give them the number on the cylinder on the cart, they'll probably get you keys for it.
Inheritance machining should make your phone mount not make that noise
Okay, spool and roll goods belong together, but what’s the adjacency to paint? Is the relationship flat items? Best thing is when you get a 2nd cabinet you can swap drawers. Admirable in some ways that you unspooled cable to make it fit, but sheesh…
I'm glad you clarified the useful purpose of drawers vs. where things go to die... I've worked in the cabinet business for 51 years and have set up several work departments and have found drawers are a great way to keep things organized and give easy access. I also place my drawers in order in which assembly in a given department is done.
Not only have I reached the Professor Farnsworth point in my life where "And this is the drawer where I keep assorted lengths of wire" is true, but I spend 40 minutes watching and envying someone's better wire drawers
Good news, everyone!
@@NitaKerns At this point, I'm at "I don't want to live on this planet anymore"
@SpaceBees lol I think maybe Im more like Fry "But exisiting is basically all I do!" 🤣
Oh my god. The Simpsons were right. "It'll happen to you tooooo!"
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What you got there, my friend, is what we med techs call a crash cart, atop which commonly sits a defibrillator. It houses EVERYTHING that might be needed in the event of cardiac emergency, & that lock box is present to store meds/controlled substances. I've stocked way too many of those suckers, top to bottom, & it's indeed the zenith of organizational use. Kudos on a fine addition!
I guess now I have to start storing my materials in drawers 😂
I'm genuinely just honored you know who I am. You're an inspiration to us all!
Such a casual mention of your channel, but apparently he is a fan of yours, as am I and many others!
Moving that sponge from the top drawer to the bottom drawer, for no good reason, is the reason why I subscribed.
Wide shots are the best thing. I can finally enjoy just staring at the various items in Adam's shop.
Only if Adam wears a microphone for the next one.
yea it's such a beautiful cacophony
There's something insanely satisfying about watching someone organize a collection of materials and space.
I love watching organization videos to make work flow better. I had a small garage that I was sufficient with but moved to a home without one and have had to battle for 7 years without one. I then lost my father and grandfather and inherited so much more I didn't have room for but couldn't let go. I now have a 32x48 shop being built and I'm so excited to get this problem off my back. No more working in the sun/rain/snow puddles of mud and a flat space to work on vehicles again. And maybe get to enjoy woodworking/Welding.
Adam got so excited when he saw these online that he immediately shipped his drawers. There's nothing worse than looking in your drawers and seeing a huge mess in there. Clean drawers are vital to a good day in the shop.
Got a good belly laugh from me bro. Thank you
ROFL
Agreed. All I have are droopy drawers.
🤣 Thank you for that!
i love you
It has wheels. It's durable and has a lot of compartments. Put subsets of all the things you use most frequently. That's what it's for, as a medical cart; it moves around with all the stuff that nurses use most frequently so they don't have to run to the store room. Utility is a function of convenience, accessibility, and organization.
no, its not a shelf that is regularly hauled around. This is to be used for small shorter movements within a room/lab probably. Drawers racks are not for hauling between corridors
What better to watch Adam talking about tools and draws? He picked the lock of the draw!!
I can feel my own grin on my own face when Adam decided to pick the lock!
Never ceases to amaze me how much extra stuff this feller can cram into his shop =)
The key I've found to useful drawer space is LABELLING!!! Without that seemingly insignificant step all gets lost (saw that on a MB episode with the library card drawers next to the lathe - when someone needed something they would just flip from drawer to drawer - IT EVEN HAD SLOTS FOR DESCRIPTIONS TO GO ON EACH DRAWER!?!
This vdi was so good to watch, knowing it would do for you what drawer cabinet things havee done for me - esrecially that point where you get it filled and find you somehow have more space and less clutter! AWESOME!!!
My favorite part was when you found more paint after organizing the paint drawers - classic!
Never have I ever come across someone who thinks about shop reorganizing like I do until now! It’s totally a dynamic exercise ❤. As my needs and uses evolve so does my organizational methods. Thanks Adam!
Few things bring me joy like re-organizing my hobby room. It makes me so excited to spend time in there. My frustrations with clutter make me incapable of not dwelling on it and trying to plan up a more efficient and aesthetically pleasing way to organize things. I’m tempted to get something like this!
Ahhh you have mastered the ways of the drawers. You've gained much knowledge. Use the power of the drawers for the good.
And big kudos to the editors of these videos! I love your style! Things like keeping the audio going whilst other things are actually happening is really nice. Makes me smile every time :)
I just absolutely love the uncut format of these videos. It's fun watching Adam's thinking process. The man is a genius and inspiration.
8:53 “Click out of 3 & 4. Click out of two.” 😊 LPL would be proud…ish? 😅
i wanted to hear, "And we got this open. Let's do it again so you can see it was not a fluke"
This is the LockPickingSavage, and what I have for you today is a magnificent medical drawer cabinet... 😆
As an avid advocate of high quality and organized drawers, this video pleased me immensely
One thing I've learned watching a lot of professional fabricators and technicians of different sorts is that their tool storage system is as much as tool as the implements they actually store and employ. For rolling carts like that, I tend to think "purpose-storage" and putting tools surrounding a function or type of work, rather than mixed general storage, which makes less use of the rolling function. To me, that looks like it would be an excellent airbrush equipment and paints storage cart. The notch in the back of the one drawer from the removal of the locking lid would be a good compressor cord passthrough.
Miscellaneous drawers, or “junk drawers “ are where things go to die. The most true statement ever lol
That’s true when _all_ your drawers are junk drawers - but everybody needs _one_ good junk drawer, that’s where things go that don’t have an obvious place.
Unless it's in your kitchen!
I opened a drawer not too long ago that I had realized I had not opened in nearly 15 years and found some specialty tools I bought in Europe I thought long lost and $50.00 I put in for a rainy day.
@KingOfTheRevolution Kitchen junk drawer is superior! Dried up markers? Yup. Random screws? Hell yea! Pack of gum you forgot about? Its in there!
Or drawers swho's contents have outgrown the alloted space, i.e. a beginner screwdriver collection can fit in one drawer, but as the collection grows, you likely should have one for phillips, one for flat, one for square/robertson, ect.
It's love to see Adam get into 3d printing some Gridfinity organizers given his new appreciation for drawers!
I don't know how many times I've watched this video, but It I appreciate moments like. @ 39:45 this that you keep in your videos... "To err is human" Adam, thank you for showing us that it is okay to make mistakes, because it is a major part of growing. You are my David Attenborough!
As a machinist, I find keeping specific/specialty end mills in their individual cases keeps them from bumping into each other in the drawer, also protects their edges. Particularly important for carbide cutters. The clear ones are best, but writing on the case with a sharpie makes it easy to find when looking for a specific one without opening them.
So great that he mentioned Covert Instruments and LockPickingLawyer. Awesome to see another favorite channel use the picking instruments. Also seems fitting that Adam would have those tools.
"Who is going to watch a 41 minute video about storage drawers?"
"Me, that's who"
You, me, and like 13,000 others 😂
These are the videos I adore watching. Why? Adam says it himself not far in - process. Its not the outcome or the result but the process. Watching a brain pour out and ideas come together. Terrific.
A part of me would enjoy watching Adam try to design and layout a workspace of only 120 square feet for the many people out there working out of small sheds behind their homes. Things like deep high shelves with see in containers come in very handy i found.
"Makers first workspace " Adam reviews your plans
Would be awesome to watch
Dude you killed two of the coolest things about your new shelving ! MOBILITY AND A WORK SURFACE
It is a good day when Adam mentions LockPickingLawyer! 😅
Aside from that, I noticing Adam has alot of Medicial Equipment, safe to say they have good drawers and equipments like stools and such.
i thought he was going to use the ugger dugger and drill the locks out..if you dont need locks take them out. leave the hardware in the bottom draw
Adam Savage: card carrying member of the Han Solo School for Advanced Lock Picking
I love watching Adam’s videos, they are so comforting. It’s so nice to see someone get so genuinely excited over the little things in life like improving his storage methods.
It’s also lovely for someone to be so knowledgeable about their field while being positive. A lot of people in his position might have ended up gatekeeping and condescending, but he is so happy to share his knowledge and cheerfully uplifts people in the maker community. He passes the vibe check with flying colors.
Ooh, what an amazing cabinet of holding.... would hold ALL MY crafting supplies, and has the workspace on top too!
Oh, you beloved old Sage. Thank you for allowing yourself to evolve year-over-year and sharing your growth with us lay-people. One of the four pillars! Year-Over-Year improvement, followed by Brand Differentiation (Tested is clearly a brand), People Development & Culture (how we treat the people we've developed).
Adam dropping that drawer at the end was f***ing funny 😂
I almost dropped my phone because of the shock watching this 😯
Good that I was on the couch, so the phone wouldn't fall that deep 😆
Seeing all these new drawers utilized neatly just makes me very happy. And the white tape over the green handles makes it blend more with the surroundings too, not that it had to.
Never really got Adam’s thing about drawers - well I did, and I didn’t: _deep_ drawers that can’t be pulled out all the way are where things go to die, that’s totally true. There are crap drawers and good drawers: good drawers are shallow, so things can’t hide underneath other things, and good drawers are drawers that can be pulled out until you can see what’s in the back.
It's probably mostly down to attention deficit. For a lot of us out of sight is out of mind to a greater extent than to someone who doesn't have to live with it. So it's a common strategy to store things in a way where we can always spot it just by looking around. It takes a lot more effort to internalize where something "lives" when we start putting them in drawers, and to maintain it as well. (this is also probably why everything is very clearly labelled on the outside of Adams drawers).
I know that for me personally, using drawers even if they are organized and not too deep usually means I need to open and look in all of them, cause I simply cannot remember where stuff is. Or I just forget it exists entirely. The only drawer I have that works for me is one that specifically only has water color tubes in it, organized by color temperature. If I try to have anything else live in there my attempts at organization will simply implode.
People with ADHD have problems with object permanence. Basically if you can't see it, it doesn't exist
@@bluefish239 With you all the way.....I have a system of cardboard A4 copy paper boxes all stored in a cabinet made from 20mm square tubing, 8 rows by 5 rows high, and the boxes have all my "good" junk that I've stored for 40 years and occasionally delve into for something......indexing them is done by numbering the boxes.....all 36 of them....... and then photographing and making a print of the contents and stored in a folder........when i want something it's easy peasy to browse the prints in the folder and go to box no. whatever and it's all there.
Yup this is my system. I want to be able to see everything instantly., plus it keeps the dust off. To me junk drawers are when you have a thing, don’t know what the thing is so you just chuck it in a drawer so you don’t have to think about it. Work out if you actually need it first then assign it to a drawer with similar items.
Adam, your maker space is such an inspiration. Although I have a fraction of the space of one of your rooms I love your organization ideas!! Thank you for all your guidance videos!
By my experience in aged care, this looks like a cabinet designed to transport medication to room to room in a health care facility, hence the locks on the draws that only the medication nurse or doctor would have the keys for.
Also an anesthesia cart for meds in ORs.
By no experience I can deduce that by the color of it, and the size of the drawers and the locks.
No big mystery.
100% saw the thumbnail, and clocked it as medical equipment. I have seen so many cabinets like this in my travels as a chronically ill person. Congrats Adam on a creative re-use!🎉
@@morbidmanmusic Adam also literally says it's a med cart less than 3 minutes in
The fact it has a work surface suggests that it's used for procedures as well - it seems quite bulky for doing simple medication rounds
36:56 is truly a great feeling. Storage is such a philosophical journey. This episode was one mountain top among many.
That Cart would be amazing for someone who does Miniature work/model making. One Drawer for cutting tools. One for Styrene of different types. One for Greeblies. One for Paints. One for Brushes. One for glues. The large side parts for bases, or WIP Models.
How are these videos of shop organization so relaxing? i have just overhauled my hobby cave, much like Adam, based on some new drawers and it could have been a few hours, but i decided everything needed to be moved just a bit and 'first order' improved, its frustrating and makes a mess but super satisfying when complete.
I love that the first five minutes of this were “I know I know I’ve said no Drawers… but this is different”
Adam is using lock picking lawyer's picks. Two cool UA-cam greats.
Love the fact Adam has changed his views on drawers in a usual Adam way. Mass enthusiasm and geekiness
The blue organizers in the bottom that you dismissed :( are Akro Bins and they deserve better.
They're my favorite organizing unit because they are stackable and more importantly both inspectable and *hangable* thanks to the lip on the back side. This allows you to have as much vertical space as you want filled with neatly contained yet *visible* and *portable* nooks for your things.
They come in a variety of dimensions and have accessories like dividers and lids, as well as various mounting solutions. Please do reconsider!
No, Adam is going to make a cabinet for all of those bins he discarded as too good to throw a
The problem with Akro bins when you hang them on the wall is that they're open to the environment and therefore they collect dust. I particularly don't like the dark blue Akro bins because it makes it harder to see what's in the bin, especially if you have 2 or 3 somewhat similar but different fasteners or whatever in the bin. The light blue plastic bins used for the other drawers of this storage cabinet are much better because they allow more light in. Somebody who's 30 with near perfect eyesight might not care so much, but when you get to 60 and your eyesight isn't great and perhaps you're working in a shop that doesn't have the best or most ideal lighting, you will find that you want light- colored high visibility containers and trays for everything. I've even gone so far as to spray the inside of my toolbags with white spray paint so that anything that falls to the bottom of the bag will at least be backlit to some extent.
Props to your video editor - LOVE leaving the real-time audio under the sped up video with the music.
Wow, just so happens I've been looking for a drawer solution to build my new garage shop. I have had the exact opinion about drawers for years - they hide things away, and it adds an extra step to retrieve a tool (have to open the drawer first obviously). Also they are much more expensive than something like a pegboard or "shadow board." However... in my case, I now have a very small space to work with, and when you consider that to lay out tools in a way that they are organized neatly and easily retrievable, then what you need is surface area. And to maximize surface area per volume, you need drawers. Arguably they also make a shop more aesthetically pleasing. I've been trying to decide whether to build my own from scratch or just buy them pre-made. Thanks for the video!
I'm in the same boat as you are. The make/buy decision is an especially tough call. None of the commonly available, reasonably priced consumer companies (Craftsman, Husky, US general) make anything with lots of shallow drawers.
Adam's "new" cabinets are commercial/industrial units and very expensive unless you're lucky enough to find them second hand.
Building is very time consuming and usually more expensive than an off-the-shelf solution. You do get something custom tailored to your space. But if you have a preference for steel drawers over wood...
It would be awesome if one of the consumer companies sold cabinets empty and sold drawers sepatately in 1X, 2X, 3X, etc sizes so you could mix and match to your personal needs.
Used cabinets like that for decades as a nurse. Loved them.
I love watching your organization videos. I’ve been slowly modifying my own workshop
Im surprised that you haven’t done anything with gridfinity. It seems that it would be exactly your type of thing for drawers.
I was thinking the same thing!
He isn't that much into digital modeling and 3D printing
I am missing french cleats all over everything too, that doesn't keep me from enjoying Adam's workshop progress
Adam following Inheritance Machining is the most obvious match I never thought of. Love you both, you're doing amazing things.
I've found a love for those stackable drawers that you get at office supply stores. I use them for my art supplies. I designate them to specific art mediums and associated tools. I have multiples of things so I can have them in multiple drawers so I'm not hunting down small things like erasers, sharpeners, blades ... I just pull out the drawer for the medium I'm going to use and I have a portable container that has all my acrylic paint with brushes, or acrylic gouache with brushes and wet pallet or all my tools for working with clay. They are all labeled with adhesive vinyl. It's the storage solution my ADHD brain has always needed
Link? That sounds cool.
I used to use white electrical tape, basically vinyl tape, to label drawers by writing on it with a Sharpie, but I have found that the print tends to go illegible after a couple of years of exposure to light. I have had better luck with medical or surgical tape, the cloth type stuff. Strangely, it seems to be only easily available in 1/2" or 1" width, and I'd really like to find some in 3/4 inch width.
One of the more useful organization videos I’ve watched. I appreciate how other makers store their supplies and tools, and I feel validated for keeping all scraps. If it’s useful, why throw it out?
I would use the blue tubs as wire dispensers, place each reel in the blue tub, and cut holes for the wires, maybe add a wooden rod across the middle of them as well so it's easier to spool the wire
Watching these organization videos has got me organizing to the point I can not only find things I'm looking for, but know where anything new is supposed to go. Thanks!
This should be a PERFECT 3D printers station. A big one on top (or a couple medium-sized ones) and ALL you need inside drawers.
That's a great idea. I've been curious about 3D printers for a while now, but I don't really know much in the way of details. How much does a 3D printer for personal use, such as you envision fitting on top of that surface, cost?
@@GnomaPhobic Look up Ender 3 Videos for examples and its usually a few hundred at most for a "solid" 3D printer. Also depend on how much work you want to put in yourself to getting it dialed in just right
@@Montisaquadeis I'll check that out. Thanks for the tip!
Oh man, I really miss these shop-infrastructure long videos. They singlehandedly got me through the loneliness of COVID lockdown in 2020. ❤
I've been rewatching Norm and New Yankee Workshop this whole week and hearing him saw 'draaaws' makes me smile every time! Nice medcart! Score! Are there differences between a Crash cart, triage, etc? An emergency room kit probably needs way more stuff with 1OR than say an EKG or other single-funtion move/storage?
Is that the Jack White stool? Or is it too precious to sit on? :P
Love those PBS shows! When my friends were watching South Park, I was watching This Old House 😂
the supplies in the carts are different but the carts themselves are all the same. You dont buy a triage cart you buy a med cart and put triage stuff in it
You are a good soul Adam. I have 0 interest in draws, yet here I am watching you. Enough said.
The concept of First Order Retrievability has been incredibly influential in my life, but so has 'drawers are where things go to die'. To that end, I structure my working life such that everything I reasonably need frequently or not is always in 1 consistent spot. So even if I don't use it practically ever, it will be in the 1 exact place I intended to leave it, and that spot will be nearby things that are similar enough to make me remember where it is.
What gets frustrating is that my coworkers do NOT believe in things like cleanliness, organization, F.O.R., so they will take my meticulous systems and do whatever they feel like and sometimes I have to spend time during my work hours resetting things to be as they should be to be their most efficient so that I can have an easier time.
i just love the fact that the chair, he sits on in almost every video, was partially made by my favourite musician. The connection between adam savage and jack white is the greatest kollaboration ever.
Funny how he took the time to pick the lock, and then just drills the rivets out and pulls it off all together
Yeah. I noticed that too!😄
the since of accomplishment !
and then didn't re-mount the drawer straight, giving me anxiety 😬
I keep a selection of desk and filing cabinet keys on my keychain. It is not unusable to find I have one that turns a lock on another lock or cabinet. At my last job we sent out a padlock with every unit we sold. All of the locks were keyed to the same key.
I bet that @InheritanceMachining loves a shout out by Adam Savage. That's pretty cool! And this storage is fantastic. Like you said, most medical furniture is built REALLY well.
I wonder what percentage of Adam's life has been moving things from one box to another, or building a new box to move something from an old box into that new box???
He's a great entertainer, but has lost the plot a bit. Dude has dozens of every single thing. "A drawer for my tape measures", wtf
@Iivari Mokelainen quite the shop for one person, I'll say that! Not in terms of footprint, but certainly in its catalog of tools and materials. I still very much enjoy watching Adam build just about anything, but I do genuinely wonder sometimes about the seeming surplus of _everything_. If he's enjoying it, who are we to judge, though!
I mean, I don't want to think about how much of my life I've spent doing just that. Maybe sometimes it's best not to know.
My thought exactly. He can spend hours and days "reorganising" the shop every time he acquires (or builds) a new set of organizers. Now keep your eyes open for a dental cabinet with its many shallow drawers that would be great for pens, pencils, and paper clips.
Re-organizing and re-arranging things provides a solid amount of dopamine to my ADHD brain, so I get him lol
The swiss knife display up high in the background is amazing! I'm just obsessed!!
Anyone else get nervous when he opened all the drawers at once
Remarkable at 36:30: his shop's floor is a piece of art itself!🎨🖌
My mother is a nurse and every time her hospital upgrades their crash carts they let the staff have the old ones. My dad has used them for tool storage for decades and every few years he gets a better model. Those crash carts are the platonic ideal of first order of retrievability because lives depend on the most important stuff being the easiest to access.
Mr.Savage.... I believe that you have some of the nicest penmanship out of all the UA-cam makers......
Now i want a LPL reaction video on adams technique.
nice to see how your wires have moved from the top to the bottom. I am also usually moving everything, but organizing and cleaning up is a profession in itself.
Funny how you said about sparing no expense for medical stuff. I literally just looked up a table the other day at my doctor's apt. I was intrigued because the table was on big clear roller blade wheels with a 4 leg chrome base like an office chair and a nice adjustable kidney bean shaped table top for the doctor to roll around and write on. Msrp on the thing....1800 bucks. Almost fell out of the chair when I saw the price.
I got a big set of tool draws a few years ago for my outdoors kitchen and good lord it's been my fav purchase for a long time.
Full extension drawers!!! THE game changer when it comes to drawers.
if you ever wondered just how much time Adam spends in the cave? just observe the floor wear it has an amazing story to tell. Oh and you dont have to apologize for the camera lol we are just blessed for the time we have with you :) cheers.
"Omnium gatherum" is the term you are looking for, when you are looking for a place for your miscellany. It's the name of my folder where many unanswered emails go to die. Could be a final resting place for misfit tools. Keep up the amazing work. I adore the show!
This is such a great video to show people how lock picking really goes. Like Adam said most people only ever see TV/Film versions where its instant. Then you go on youtube and see Lock Picking Lawyer (and other channels like it) with people of super high skill breaking into locks in seconds.
Hello Adam, if you hit the central lockker you can open it, under the cabinet is a handel you must pull/press it 👍👍😉
Awesome!
Was talking to a friend about your storage solutions. He said Adam does and has way more stuff then we need/use. My response was yeah that’s true, but I still learn so many useful things that translate to smaller “workshops”
0:04 Hes so excited he barked! lol
It always pleases me when Adam mentions another channel that I'm already watching in his videos.
I love watching your channel because the camera is usually fairly still and I can play "I Spy"
Love learning about your process, watching things shift and refine. Also just love that 10-inch mini counter Adam created. Great!
I'm here for you cutting corners off existing shelves so new carts will fit. Thats shoehorning if I've ever seen it!
I love watching Adam go through his process.
Over the years I've been a big fan of putting only certain things in certain drawers and it's made a big difference.
Oh man, no spoilers but that Wait For It moment, day made! Thanks for the awesome relaxing watch!
I just watched a guy put stuff in drawers for 40 minutes and thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm glad I don't have to explain this to anyone, though.
I totally agree with Adam about drawers with specific purposes are great. Long ago I invested in ToolGrid, Toolbox Widget, Ernst organizers. Now I have specific drawers that I can even easily identify what is missing. By doing this now I find everything so easily and can put it back easily
WOW! WOW! Love your infrastructure/storage videos!
...Oh no!!! my heart dropped that drawer dropped... Well, now it gets resorted too.
Cheers! ☕
I love my drawers. I love my drawer locks. I use them all. I know where everything is. Nothing gets lost or dusty. The dog and kids can't chew on my stuff. Long live the humble drawer.
I sense a repeat of my mistake - to fill the drawer. Never ceases to surprise me how much more of a thing reveals itself in the weeks after filling and labelling a drawer / divider. Expansion space is vital to organisation.
These drawers are deeper but still love that custom moveable shelf you made for paint... And now it's gone.
that is a sexy set of drawers. I love things that store / transport things. drawers, boxes, trailers and trunks are amazing to me.
Great looking set of storage draws. I use the large Plano tackle boxes great for storage of electric hand tools as well as machine tools.
I have a retired crash cart in my shop too! Also have an adjustable height patient bed table. Both serve me well.
open storage makes me insane. glad you figured out drawers!
I really really like the wide shots! More please.
Speaking as a journeyman wireman of well over 20 years of experience hearing someone describe 14 AWG as big is humorous to me. To me a piece of 600 kcmil is starting to get big. A matter of perspective I guess. Thanks for helping me see different ways of viewing my work space in new ways!
Nice find,Adam! I have an older Homak cart which I believe is also a medical cart since it has the big rubber bumpers at each corner. Got it for free and turned it into my toolbox. Love it.