While working at the rock quarry in Clayton California, (1986), we got a new nut and bolt salesperson when our regular KARR guy retired. She was very nice, very helpful and eager to please the quarry's needs. I asked her if she could sell me 2, #72 bins for my nuts and bolts. I told her it was for my home shop. She ordered two bins AND threw in two of the four drawer cabinets for free ! I never told anyone that they were free, but they must have found out. You never saw so many jealous co-workers ! I still use them today, after 30+ years, and they have been kept clean and dry.
Easily the most thorough video I've seen on hardware storage and organization. You changed my mind on the yellow bin topic. Thanks for taking the time to put this together!
Ah, your OCD pleases me (as I'm OCD, too)! Thanks for putting all your thoughts in the video. The process behind what you're doing is super valuable to people just getting into shop set up.
I feel like that level of ocd is quite necessary when working with such a large collection of hardware. Otherwise one might go crazy looking for that one piece they know they have... somewhere.
I use those circular containers for a lot of things: Putting parts into them when taking stuff apart. Washing parts. Finish buckets when I am finishing stuff. I throw them afterward if I don't feel like cleaning. I cut them down to the size that I need. Brush holder: old tooth brushes, brash and steel brushes. Can put screw drivers and pliers into them if you don't want them all over your bench. I have a misc bolt bin for bolts that I have taken off equipment that I don't want in my normal inventory but still want to save. A lot of automotive/machinery fasteners tend to be special and not available at a hardware store. I have lost track of the times that I needed something that I found in that bin after 20 minutes or so of searching. I hope that helps.
Totally agree with everything you said about the yellow bin cases. I bought a few of them after seeing everyone on youtube using them and I've been disappointed. Thanks for sharing your thought process and logic on building your hardware inventory. Loving this series!
I totally agree, but just to play Devil's advocate. The people that like the yellow bins typically need to move their screws to their project. IE they work on a job site.
@@MET3 I agree 100%. They have their uses. I think they are over used though for people who only use them in the shop and don’t need to move them around, there are better options.
I would use them for paint and foam brushes. My wife is a chemist and she has these containers. They work well and keep the brushes nice and clean (no dust in your finish!).
First, I made the mistake of buying the cheap yellow organizers, lots of them. They are impossible to label. I don't leave my shop, so not sure what i was thinking, following the heard. The expensive boxes like Sortimo are set up to label but they are sixty dollars a unit. Now for the grey bins I found a cheap way to mount if you do not have the bracket that cam with yours. They are called Din Rails, they come in a variety of sizes and are very cheap, sturdier than the plastic ones. Great video , thank you.
VERY much appreciate you going over your system. You're definitely right, no one does that and I've been looking. Also, I'm poor, so having the hardware on hand is a must. I grab decent sized variety packs whenever I can, even when I don't need them at that moment. $10-$15 here and there is me buying them for my future self that doesn't have the spare cash to hit the hardware store. Seeing how you organize them is a great help!
Yup! That was exactly my thought process. I didn’t get this collection overnight, it was over a 5ish year period when I really started buying the bigger packs just to have more on hand to cut down on trips to the store! Thanks for the kind words, appreciate it.
Simply genius. Thank you for this idea. Going to make the second rack now with medical supply for the office with sliding front cover made from MDF strip with a lot of slits to make it bend and just glued a transperant plastic film on the front side and a grove to slide it up and it goes over the top and behind the shelf. Just made four sections with this so I can hook it down and bring the box with 25 a time with me if I going to move the shop to the cabin in summer months. This was an innovative idea because I have categorized them into each box so if I need nails, I take box one with me and if I need screws and bolts, I can take box four and five with me. This way if I decide to move the shop to the cabin for summer I can easly just put all of them in the car and they stay organized with plastic cover during transport and when hanging on the wall protecting them from dust.
I bought these same size bins from Grainger when they were selling them for 24 bins at $12.00, so I bought two cases. Here I thought 48 bins were a lot! It looks great and you gave me the idea to mount them over my bench too. I have a slat wall above my bench so I made mountings plates out of 1/8" thick strips of aluminum sheeting. Boy, that space looks to be made just for the bins!
Yes! I don’t know why it took so long but once I realized it, it’s such a perfect spot for them. Been very happy with them there. Let me know how it turns out.
Great information, thank you! Cut the bottom off the tub then hang a couple horizontally, in line, from the ceiling. Keep them a few feet apart. You could store long lengths of beading or thin wood, by sliding the wood into the first tub then into the second one, keeping the second one whole, to stop the wood from going in too far.
for those plastic containers, you can use them for all kinds of things. for ex, spade bit organizer with a wood insert, Large bolts that don't fit in your other bins, recycled/recovered hardware, fill them with hinges, homemade woodfiller, if you use dowel pins or biscuits good containers for them all just to name a few. they are also pretty awesome for rags if you put a magnet in the bottom and let them stick to file cabinet storage
Nice overview and explanation of your priorities. Personally I'm very happy with my yellow bin organizers, mostly for two reasons: dust protection and density. The dust here is not so much sawdust as all kinds of sticky stuff, since the garage is open to the outside and near the ocean. For this reason, it's not as easy as just blowing away sawdust, it needs to be wiped. I also store a bunch of stuff in them that wouldn't like dust in the first place, like electronic components. Density-wise I totally agree with you on the cons, it IS less convenient to use than your solution. However, I use mine to store a ton of different kinds of things, not just screws and nails but also rivets, hose clamps, time-serts, wiring connectors, electronics, AN fittings, etc, etc. I don't use any single one of these often enough to warrant a more easily accessible solution, but having them in well sorted and labeled containers in a single big rack means I can actually *find* them when I need them. Your concerns would be more important if I had more of a production shop where I did any single thing all the time.
Loved the special effects and your humor regarding the 28-3. The way you present your thought process is soooo helpful. I just like to see your perspective. Even the hardware purchasing thoughts make so much sense yet I didn’t get there without your help. I am a fan!
I've shared this on another video, my strategy to accumulate hardware (especially large SAE items 1/4 through 5/8 and a few 3/4), and if you have a store between your home and work, stop in said store (tractor supply in my case) on your way home (helps get out of rush hour traffic for a few minutes as well). I went in on paydays and bought a few pounds at a time of various sizes, bolts, washers, and the nuts to go with them. It didn't take long to have a nice large assortment without breaking my gas budget. For the small metric items, I buy the inexpensive variety packs online. Then when you use them you return to the store at a convenient time or buy online when on sale to replenish what you used.
Like the shirt. Love the video. Thank you. Ideas for your containers: One or two can be for paper towels by cutting a slot along the length. Fill 83% high with water and freeze to use in big coolers (lasts 38--64% longer than cubed ice). Use one as a curse jar. Small electrolysis rust removal bins. Change savings jars instead of piggy banks. Lint jar in the laundry room. Buy bulk ingredients and make your own protein powder at 56.2 % savings over the stuff you use now. More? If you insist. Big box store receipts holders. bulk salt bin for anti glue slipping. Single pint beer can coolers for personal use. Have a child draw cool stuff on them and sell them for profit. Similarly, have the child cut patterns in them, drop a small LED light inside, and sell them as cool night lights. Slice one into rings and bisect the ring into a strip. Rivit the strip on a container to use as a handle. Monday through Sunday t-shirt, underwear, and socks organizers. I can go all day. Keep one empty near the workbench to hide your Matty Ice Action figures when company comes. Perfect size for popcorn bin: pop the corn, drop it in there, bring it to the shop for the day for a healthy snack. Slap your logo on there, throw in some free plans for something you design, and give them away. Bathroom wastebaskets. Keep all of them wrapped in a sheet in your passenger seat. When you get in a car chase, throw the bundled sheet out of the window. The chase car will crash and they won't be able to trace the containers to you (don't use your logo containers for that trick). Place a few almost horizontally at different distances and heights from your workbench and keep a tennis ball to toss and try to get points during slow times. Emergency toilet tissue container for the truck or car that keeps the stuff from unrolling and/or getting all dusty and torn up. Cut a few small holes at the bottom and hang as bird feeders. And finally, fill with sand and use as for myofascial release like a foam roller. Bonus: fill with sand and use as huge diameter dumbbells which will increase grip strength dramatically.
Hahahahah I don’t have a Matty Ice action figure sadly, however my wife did buy me a Julio Jones one still in the package. I laughed pretty hard at that, great response, and some good ideas in there, thank you so much!
@@RingsWorkshop Thank you so much for your awesome breakdowns and examples. Fellow Falcons fan here. Gotta Google Julio Jones action figure and get one for my office!
I feel like you were sent from above to solve all my ocd. I am organizing my two car garage woodworking business and i could not have these videos at a better time You are a genious.
A great series of videos, thank you for your input. I'm a DIY maker and about to move into my first home, and will certainly be taking your tips into consideration when setting up my garage workshop. Thanks again!
Love your approach to this. Agree with all the 'yellow bin' issues. Madness. I went all shallow drawers with bins- all e.g. screws to view in one drawer. Adds a drawer pull to access, but keeps out all dust. Bins are different (indexed) sizes, as contents are different sizes. A 3D printer gives you flexibility and perfect fits...
Great video and I love the build. And for $100, you really can't go wrong. One point on the storage cases as opposed to the bins. I really think that for guys like me who tend to do work in places other than their shop, having the storage cases is the way to go. I label the handle or front panels of each case, and know exactly what I need to grab if I have to run offsite. I've actually built a few storage racks with locking or retractable casters so I can throw a few cases in and roll it into my van. I also built them to the height of other cabinets in my shop so they can be used as additional supports when needed. So, again, the cases are definitely not for everyone, and I think your solution is excellent. But there are some of us who (as much as we'd LOVE to use this) would still have to transfer stuff into cases to go on the road anyway.
Thank you! Yeah, if you are on the go, yellow bins are the way to go. Because I rarely leave, and normally if I do it’s for something small or I’m carrying them to the basement or inside somewhere, it’s not an issue. I have seen so many hardware storage ideas that use them and once I did it I just knew there had to be another solution. I don’t know that one is better than the other, as I think each has their purpose, I was excited to give people another option that I really hadn’t seen shown off much before.
my zip ties come from dollar tree. Yea, its $1.25 but gives me variety of sizes and also harbor freight is good for quantity. Now those storage buckets/bins you are holding from your protein drinks--I use them for epoxy stuff. So if you are making a lamp with some wood chips in it, then you can just cut out the lamp and polish it up. OR...You can also use them for dust collections, making them into a wood type glue to hide scrapes, or blend in to glue up wood. Label them so its only walnut, oak, cherry, etc. OR..bird feeders/houses. Where do you keep pencils or sharpeners when you are measuring? I would cut out a place to keep the pencil sharpener so when I go to sharpen my pencils, they are in the same bucket but have a divider so to keep shavings separate from pencils. Where do you keep your dowels? Do you make your own or buy those? Yea, those buckets can be bulky, but I can always hang mine up. just some ideas for you. OR...Give them to your local church for VBS and Sunday School crafts.
This series has been excellent. Im new to woodworking and have a 16x10 space in the back of garage. This has given me a TON of good ideas to be make better use of the space.
For those containers, just grab a Stanley knife and put a slit in it from top to bottom then grab your roll of sand paper and place in container and poking the end of the roll out, I have done this for all the grades (40, 60, 80, 120 ) and to help I have also screwed an old hacksaw blade to the container and tuck the sandpaper under the blade and that way it is easier to tear and to stop it from flinging out
Just started watching your channel. I can relate to almost everything you are saying. I watched all 4 of your shop organization videos. I am now rethinking the way I built my shop. I am home right now with a broken leg and nothing but time on my hands to start planning a awesome shop reconstruction. Just wanted to say thank you for opening my mind and keeping me busy with out moving Dr's orders lol.
That’s awesome! Well, not the broken leg part, hoping everything is healing well. Glad I could help get you thinking though. Look forward to hearing what things you implement in your own shop! Anything stand out that you want to change once healed up?
Just what I was looking for, a decent how-to. And the video production is top notch. I think in my version of the bin wall I will color code the labels so a quick glance will get me to the nuts, bolts, screws, nails, etc. Really like your logical process and style. Subscribed.
Thank you! Love the color coding idea, I had thought about that as well. Even if I used the white labels still but maybe text or an underline or something to call out different items quicker is a good idea. Luckily mine all fit in one column so that helps know where the cut offs are, but I think color would be really handy if you had some pour into the next column over and they were mixed up.
So much frustration trying to organize my shop. ADHD doesn't play nice with clutter.. you pointed out the same details that get in the way and ruin my flow. nice to know i'm not crazy. Thanks for the great vid and ideas
Great stuff, man. Analysis on the yellow vs. gray was spot on -- especially the looking through the stack!! Like others said, you've changed my mind on the yellow storage -- at least within the shop. I liked the sprinkle of humor too. Thanks.
You can use the protein powder boxes to make dispensers for cables, ropes, paper, etc. And to protect items from dust. You could screw all the lids to a plank and attach it to your ceiling and store light objects or spare parts like tubes, adapters, ect. I work with bikes and store tyres, saddles, cranks parts, odd shaped accessories, ect. In similar containers.
For your plastic protein powder containers...you could make a nail holder (or your pick) that looks similar to a rotating tree bin holder. You would need to cut the containers to your desired shape. Here is a similar example of a metal one I found to help illustrate what I am describing. Durham Manufacturing 1505-95 Rotabin 5 Shelf 44" (5 compartments per shell)
Even with the logistics being annoying a mix of storage works out for me. The little hanging bins are my favorite for wood screws, specifically because I use them the most. The organizers with smaller bins are where I put single or strange items. Then because we’re all crazy people I have a different type of organizer with bins I bought just for electrical. Really helps keep my toggle wire nuts of different sizes all in two bins connected together to take with me. Then I have small Plano bins that can handle varied sizes of machine tooling. Great video as always.
Thank you! Yeah I need to get my electrical stuff better organized. I have the drawers I use for small stuff like arduino and raspberry pi I’m learning (the drawers i removed one to demo the yellow bin container in), but nothing good for home electrical stuff other than just dumped in a tote. So I’m sure that will be something I work on at some point.
@@RingsWorkshop it’s also just a love for organizers.. I bought the ChannelLock blue organizers that are deeper. They come in two sizes, half size 6 bin and 12 bin. Nicer clear top, removable bins, lock together, and have a gasket to make them tighter. I keep my wood biscuits in a smaller one to keep moister our. Did I mention that they’re blue? Hehe.
A good use for protein powder containers? Paint, if you don't like the original can. Sawdust, if you recycle it for home made wood filler. Chains/rope. Flower pots. Organizing scrap steel/aluminum/plastic.
What I love about this is the size and how much these can actually store and if like me, concern for dust is an issue I could build vertical storage to set these bins in which is probably how I’d do it since wall space is an issue.
You can use the containers for consumables storage. rags, gloves, mask filters, etc... You can either just put stuff in them, label them, and keep them in a cabinet/closet, or make a dedicated apparatus for them.
I finally found the storage idea that I have been looking for! Mine is similar, but isn't working out. Moving it above the bench is the perfect solution. As for the containers that you want advice on, they could easily be used as milking buckets! Not for a cow, they're much too small, but for cats, hamsters, jackalopes and the such... It took me a long time to find the right container for milking all my cats, but what you've got there would be perfect. Hope this helps!
Far too large for hamsters, would spoil before even a quarter full. Jackelopes and I have a bad history ever since Americas Funniest Home Videos so that’s a real bugaboo for me. My female cat has been neutered but I’ll see if she’s up to the task at hand. She’s been out of control lately so maybe this will help.
Great video. Exactly what I was looking for - both the wall-mounted bins and the smaller in-the-drawer bins. I also like the shop-made storage solution for the boxes of sheetrock screws. And your OCD warms my heart! 😆
Hahah thank you! The OCD is a blessing and a curse. Normally leads to a nicer end project, but it takes me forever to get there sometimes because if something is off it will drive me nuts. Appreciate the kind words!
@@RingsWorkshop The curse of OCD (and I’m guilty too!) is that we can let “perfect” be the enemy of “good!” But it’s really more of an issue if you are doing woodworking for a living and have to produce, where time is money. But if it’s for your own enjoyment, who cares?! Anyway, I’m glad I stumbled on your videos. Keep up the good work.😉
@@ptortland very true! I feel it does force me to fall behind on videos at times because I take longer on days off to get a project done that I could be editing video haha. But still feel it’s worth it when you can step back at the end of the night and be proud of what you accomplished. Thank you again for the compliments. Look forward to giving you more OCD friendly content in the future haha.
Great video! Just this week been putting a lot of thought into hardware storage, so the timing of your video is perfect. For the protein powder containers, you could mount them at an angle without their lids and store things you want to grab easily when you need them and not have to search for them like nitrile gloves, shop rags, dog biscuits if you have a shop dog, etc.
Thank you! I have storage for the gloves and rags, dogs don’t come in shop too much, but I do like your idea of having pouches in a sense without the lids to grab things quickly. Just not sure what else would store well there yet.
I like all of your ideas, great! you are right, hardware is just too expensive these days not to have them not organized and misplaced or thrown away. thanks!
For those protein containers, I would use them for any plants that you want to get started before spring time. Big box stores don't have what I want and nurseries are outrageously priced, so I buy seeds and grow them myself. I love hydrangeas, but they range from $30-$50... so I started propagating my own. I have one parent that stays inside and then I'll layer 6 plants off of the one. In about 6 months, those 6 babies can be separated. Sell them and fund the next project :D
Great Work....i spent most of my adult life in Parts Depts at car dealers, open bins have always been standard and totally worth the effort for REACH IN bins.
I have an abundance of coffee cans - similar size to those protein jugs. I use them for: Drips - I work on cars a good bit and throw one of these under a localized drip/leak when working on a car. Projects - I'll have one of them handy to throw the bits in as I disassemble something. Junk Hardware - I throw the random new nuts and bolt in one, when it starts to get full or I get an itch, I sort the hardware into my storage system. Scrubbing - they make good containers to put soap and water in and dunk the scrub brush in. Especially good for nasty stuff as I throw the can away when done. I used one on my air compressor drain - the drain is piped into the lower side of a coffee can. Water drains into coffee can and evaporates - no more rusty water stains on my garage floor.
Great video, thanks for sharing. Like you because of the distance from my home to the next closest hardware store is 25 minutes to orange of blue and extra 20 minutes so I created my own hardware store. Sure it kinda was a chunk at first the when gas doubled in AZ I was glad I made the investment. Thanks again!
Thank you for the kind words! I love to tinker and sometimes I just need one bolt or screw so having that on hand makes me move forward with it where maybe I couldn’t justify a trip otherwise. Glad you enjoyed it!
I prefer the yellow bins. I agree with you, the gray bins are more user friendly and less steps. Dust control is a big issue in my garage though. I do metal fab in addition to wood working. Grinding dust migrates EVERYWHERE, and it is magnetic. Any open storage becomes a dirty mess quickly. To give an idea - I store my extension ladder up in the rafters. I used the ladder yesterday for the first time in months. I pulled it down (12' ceilings btw) and it was grimy with grinding dust.
Yeah, metal would be a much bigger pain. Anything I do with metal is around 15 feet away so no issue there for me. I can’t imagine the pain of I would have blown out the gray bin during the outtakes and it was full of metal shavings instead of sawdust and a dead spider lol.
This is a great video~! I think I've found my new method for storing hardware. I built a cabinet a while back and have definitely outgrown the small'ish spaces. I've thought about the downside of having open top containers, but placing it under a higher shelf as you did should help with the problem of falling dust. Thanks for the great info~!
Thanks for the video, I'm going back and forth with may ideas and iterations. It will always be different for each persons work flow, though This is very good for in shop work. I appreciate the logical conversation looking at cost, value, work steps etc.
Thanks! I appreciate that! Glad you enjoyed it. I do agree everyone’s shop will be different, and if you leave the shop a lot with tools or hardware, this likely isn’t the best solution for you.
Love the channel - Long time listener, first time caller. In regards to those protein powder bins you have, those are probably HDPE (#2). If they are, they can be safely melted with an old toaster oven and/or a Foreman Grill. Yes, that is what I do with those. I actually have been collecting HDPE plastics from friends and the like. There are some other great channels (Brothers Make, for instance) that have a lot of what you can do with the plastic - My favorite thing is to make handles/knob with them. Weigh out what the approximate dimensions will be, factor in a percentage difference for nominal dimensions versus the final product, melt down, put into a mould, smash/compress (vice works great for it), let cool, then treat it like a mild hardwood. I also saw the comment about turning it into a mallet, and that would likely be easily done with a cleaned out can/tin, and a lathe. Or, instead of a lathe, chuck it into a drill, and run it against your belt sander to round it out. Plenty more ideas I have in regards to the use of those plastic tubs/containers/etc, and it all involves melting them down, and turning them into usable materials. I am hopeful this comment reaches you well, and that it may ignite a spark to reuse those containers for a not-wood medium.
Thank you so much! I didn't realize how well these bins could be utilized. I also took advantage of your plans sale. You're looking at a future owner of the flip top bench. Love it! Thanks again 😁
That’s awesome man! Hope you enjoy it, be happy to answer any questions you have along the way as well. Can’t wait to see it. Let me know if you setup the bins as well!
@@RingsWorkshopdefinitely will do! Thank you 😊 Just a little side bar. I'm also a UA-camr and I understand some of the complexity of it all. In my opinion, you are doing so many right things and I appreciate the level of value you bring in every video and the plans. We all need some positive reinforcement, especially when it's so well deserved. Thank you again 👏
@@jonathonhazelhurst thank you very much, I appreciate that. Can feel like a second job sometimes but I love it, not sure I ever want to make plans that are 100 pages again, hahaha. I was getting so stir crazy, just wanted to go work in the shop but knew I had to get them done. I really appreciate the feedback, good and bad.
Hmmm, I've always viewed those grey bins as a bit of a nuisance... but the well thought out and explained (as with the rest of this video) reasoning for their use (and ultimate location) has really opened my eyes. I still personally do not have the need for quick & easy retrieval (as someone may with a large production type shop environment), yet you have opened my eyes to the practicality of this implementation. Thank you for taking the time.
Love your videos mate, keep them coming! The Protein containers could be used for all kids of things. Cut on an angle for pencil/pen/markers, they could be cut and adapted for dust extraction connectors, you could keep paper towel or other cleaning products - dust free - you could even have small scraps, dowels, paint stirrers in them.
Great video! I've been looking for a way to organize fasteners and your video convinced me. It's 8 days till Black Friday and I hope I have the willpower to wait till then for a possible sale before buying them, lol.
I like the Milwaukee packout bins. Pros:You can hang them on the wall (albeit with more effort). You can 3D print more and even bigger sizes and of course they fit in the packout organizers for taking them on the go. Cons: they cost more. They take more time to hang (witch is another expense). They are not as easy to put leftovers back in the bins unlike the hopper style bins.
I like using containers like those protein cans for storing fasteners from things I'm taking apart. Usually when I'm working on my car I'll use containers similar to that to store the bolts from the part I took off so I can keep track of them and reuse them when I put the new one on.
That’s such a simple, yet great idea. Feel dumb I hadn’t thought of that. Love it. I get distracted mid project frequently where it would be handy to store the stuff together safely and not lose a piece. Appreciate the idea!
In your storage containers that you don't want to use in your shop if you clean them out good enough or if they had food in them before you can use them for food storage takes up the bulk of a bag and it just keeps it fresher
This has been a great series! Thank you doing it. I have quite a small shop and can’t spare the surface area wall space to give over to your system. Also being small, there’s nowhere away from where the dust thing happens. I did consider going down the bins route but discounted it for those reasons. Instead of the yellow box route though I made an investment and went with the Tanos Systainer system (they make the sustainers for Festool). They’re expensive (hence why i say investment) but really well built and the storages bins in the boxes are also well made, lots of different sizes and have good labelling possibilities. So i lose a bit of space perpendicularly to the wall but gain a load of extra surface area wall space. Not sure why I’m telling you my life story now, but as i said...loved the series.
Great video. I like the semi OCD aspect of shop storage. My shop is small (9' x 14') so if I don't have some way to stay organized, it gets a little crazy. I use a similar container of plastic coffee cans. Bulkier items like knobs, which I also buy in bulk, go well in them. I put little kits together for projects and specialty tools for the job. . Door knob hole cutting jig, picture hanging wire and eye hooks, with its own awl and pliers, stuff like that. Then when I do a job, I can take that container, put it all back when I get done, and not have to put them all in different places in the shop.
Those canisters would be good for storage of something like dowels or dominos. You could attach them to a French cleat and hang them near your assembly table. The dowels and dominos would be light enough to not deform the plastic. The only real downside is they are round, and as noted in your video give you less volume as opposed to square; however, they're free, which may be enough of a plus to compensate.
@RingsWorkshop Use the protein powder containers for sanding discs, cut a slit on the side wall, towards the bottom so you can fill the discs by opening the lid from the top, and use the slit at the bottom to pull the discs out one at a time.
It's been this series on shop organization that finally got me to reorganize my own. In fact, my shop is increasingly looking like yours because I like your solutions. But I'm still thinking through these gray bins. I've actually had a set of these for years and my biggest problem with them has been when removing one bin from the rack I've often knocked another off. I found they didn't lock into the rack so well. Maybe that's because I didn't use a straight edge to set up the holders! But now I'm going to mount the holders to a board (using a straight edge) and then to the wall and see if that helps. Thanks for doing this series, but please don't make me wait 6 months or more for the next in the series.
Hahaha I’ll do my best not to! Thanks for the kind words. When you said you knock them off easy, are you meaning the ones on either side or the ones above? I never had the issue with the ones on the side, if I mount them too close vertically, I have had issues knocking the one above the one I was grabbing off as well.
@@RingsWorkshop Usually the ones above when I had them spaced as close as you do, but that could be because of my big ape hands swinging through the rack. I did run out to Harbor Freight this morning and bought 2 more sets (and came home to find I had bought 2 sets previously, so now I have 6 sets altogether...and I'm sure it still won't be enough). I just put them up on the wall though and found my hands were still knocking into the bins above, and the close space made it more difficult to get the flanges to seat in the slots easily. So I spaced them a little further apart. Not as efficient on space, but hopefully it keeps me from spilling the contents all over the bench. Cheers
@@HomesteadDIY I had to do that as well. Every now and then I unhook one but it just falls two inches into the bin I’m holding so not too big of a deal if it does happen.
28-3! 😂 As a Vikings fan, I too feel the pain of a bad choke job... Awesome video! I like your system. I really appreciate your explanations and insight. This is very helpful. Yet another kick butt video from you. Keep ‘em coming! 👍🏼
Hahahaha thank you as always! Vikings Saints Divisional Round 2018...I’ll never forget the call of that play “Pass is caught...DIGGS...SIDELINE...TOUCHDOWN...UNBELIEVABLE!!!” I hate the Saints so I think I was happier than some Vikings fans. Hahaha.
@@RingsWorkshop @RF265 Imagine being a lifelong Bills fan and having to endure 20 years of Brady 2x a year - it was like Groundhog Day minus the laughs
these are great bins if you DON'T need to do a job outside of your shop. I use the yellow black containers you showed so i can take them on the go as needed based on the job. same reason most of my tools are portable tools in shop locations, that i can take on the road as well.
Love your style and tips. Went to the Harbor Fraught today and picked up some of the bins. I attached them to my French cleat wall and the spacing was perfect. I’m liking the concept of larger bins for bulk purchases of hardware and actually being able to see what I have. Going to still keep my “yellow box” system for deep storage and transporting around the house and to my parents’ and friends’ for projects, but for my own shop, this is a much better system.
Your channel is way underrated! Great info here! I love my little storage bins. I've had the same ones for 15 years now. I actually bought some map storage drawers as I have about 500 small parts bins (the flimsy drawers you showed) that I keep in the map drawers. I stacked two of the map drawers and added wheels to the bottom and then plywood on top. So it's a rolling parts drawer cabinet that also serves as a bench and outfeed table for my table saw. Love your shop though. Thanks for the ideas!
None of this is overkill. Organization with this much thought makes me happy
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
If you havent found a used for the protein cans then use them to store bulk string or rope or cable with a hole in the lid and pull out and snip
While working at the rock quarry in Clayton California, (1986), we got a new nut and bolt salesperson when our regular KARR guy retired. She was very nice, very helpful and eager to please the quarry's needs. I asked her if she could sell me 2, #72 bins for my nuts and bolts. I told her it was for my home shop. She ordered two bins AND threw in two of the four drawer cabinets for free ! I never told anyone that they were free, but they must have found out. You never saw so many jealous co-workers ! I still use them today, after 30+ years, and they have been kept clean and dry.
Awesome. My grandparents’ dairy farm occupied the land that now includes Clayton Valley High & Clayton Valley Bowl.
Easily the most thorough video I've seen on hardware storage and organization. You changed my mind on the yellow bin topic. Thanks for taking the time to put this together!
Thank you, appreciate that a lot!!
I really like how you take the time to analyze the “why” and not just the “how”. Keep up the good work.
Appreciate it! Glad you enjoyed it!
Ah, your OCD pleases me (as I'm OCD, too)! Thanks for putting all your thoughts in the video. The process behind what you're doing is super valuable to people just getting into shop set up.
Haha thanks! Sometimes I think it’s overkill, and it likely is, but that’s alright lol.
@@RingsWorkshop it's not overkill! I inherited my Dad's hardware (40 years worth). Organization is KEY 😁
I feel like that level of ocd is quite necessary when working with such a large collection of hardware. Otherwise one might go crazy looking for that one piece they know they have... somewhere.
@jblewis1975 as someone who has real OCD, your ignorance is showing
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I use those circular containers for a lot of things: Putting parts into them when taking stuff apart. Washing parts. Finish buckets when I am finishing stuff. I throw them afterward if I don't feel like cleaning. I cut them down to the size that I need. Brush holder: old tooth brushes, brash and steel brushes. Can put screw drivers and pliers into them if you don't want them all over your bench. I have a misc bolt bin for bolts that I have taken off equipment that I don't want in my normal inventory but still want to save. A lot of automotive/machinery fasteners tend to be special and not available at a hardware store. I have lost track of the times that I needed something that I found in that bin after 20 minutes or so of searching. I hope that helps.
Great ideas! I need to get better at just pitching some. I have an old oil drip bin I’ve had up top in the garage for years
The animation in this video with the little bins are so amazing
Haha thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.
Totally agree with everything you said about the yellow bin cases. I bought a few of them after seeing everyone on youtube using them and I've been disappointed. Thanks for sharing your thought process and logic on building your hardware inventory. Loving this series!
Thank you! Appreciate the feedback!
I totally agree, but just to play Devil's advocate. The people that like the yellow bins typically need to move their screws to their project. IE they work on a job site.
@@MET3 I agree 100%. They have their uses. I think they are over used though for people who only use them in the shop and don’t need to move them around, there are better options.
I would use them for paint and foam brushes. My wife is a chemist and she has these containers. They work well and keep the brushes nice and clean (no dust in your finish!).
Great idea I'll put him inside my storage toads
The editing, the humor, the explanations. It's all incredible. You're a wonderful guide on this subject!!!
Appreciate the kind words, thank you!
There’s people out there that measure and time everything you’re talking about. You’re information is spot on and time tested🤔
Thank you!
First, I made the mistake of buying the cheap yellow organizers, lots of them. They are impossible to label. I don't leave my shop, so not sure what i was thinking, following the heard. The expensive boxes like Sortimo are set up to label but they are sixty dollars a unit. Now for the grey bins I found a cheap way to mount if you do not have the bracket that cam with yours. They are called Din Rails, they come in a variety of sizes and are very cheap, sturdier than the plastic ones. Great video , thank you.
VERY much appreciate you going over your system. You're definitely right, no one does that and I've been looking. Also, I'm poor, so having the hardware on hand is a must. I grab decent sized variety packs whenever I can, even when I don't need them at that moment. $10-$15 here and there is me buying them for my future self that doesn't have the spare cash to hit the hardware store. Seeing how you organize them is a great help!
Yup! That was exactly my thought process. I didn’t get this collection overnight, it was over a 5ish year period when I really started buying the bigger packs just to have more on hand to cut down on trips to the store! Thanks for the kind words, appreciate it.
Simply genius. Thank you for this idea. Going to make the second rack now with medical supply for the office with sliding front cover made from MDF strip with a lot of slits to make it bend and just glued a transperant plastic film on the front side and a grove to slide it up and it goes over the top and behind the shelf. Just made four sections with this so I can hook it down and bring the box with 25 a time with me if I going to move the shop to the cabin in summer months. This was an innovative idea because I have categorized them into each box so if I need nails, I take box one with me and if I need screws and bolts, I can take box four and five with me. This way if I decide to move the shop to the cabin for summer I can easly just put all of them in the car and they stay organized with plastic cover during transport and when hanging on the wall protecting them from dust.
Love it!
What blows my mind is that you have this much hardware, it is impressive!
I never comment on videos but the Falcons shirt........... LOL I sub'd just because of that.
Hahahaha I appreciate it!!
This is the shop organization video (regarding fasteners) I've been searching forever for!
Awesome job!! Thank you!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
I agree it is good to show how your way works good for you and also prompts people to see yours and get their own ideas that suits them best
I bought these same size bins from Grainger when they were selling them for 24 bins at $12.00, so I bought two cases. Here I thought 48 bins were a lot! It looks great and you gave me the idea to mount them over my bench too. I have a slat wall above my bench so I made mountings plates out of 1/8" thick strips of aluminum sheeting. Boy, that space looks to be made just for the bins!
Yes! I don’t know why it took so long but once I realized it, it’s such a perfect spot for them. Been very happy with them there. Let me know how it turns out.
Thank you very much for creating this. I greatly appreciate your thorough thought process and explanations. 🙂
Thank you for the feedback!
Great information, thank you!
Cut the bottom off the tub then hang a couple horizontally, in line, from the ceiling. Keep them a few feet apart. You could store long lengths of beading or thin wood, by sliding the wood into the first tub then into the second one, keeping the second one whole, to stop the wood from going in too far.
for those plastic containers, you can use them for all kinds of things. for ex, spade bit organizer with a wood insert, Large bolts that don't fit in your other bins, recycled/recovered hardware, fill them with hinges, homemade woodfiller, if you use dowel pins or biscuits good containers for them all just to name a few. they are also pretty awesome for rags if you put a magnet in the bottom and let them stick to file cabinet storage
Nice overview and explanation of your priorities. Personally I'm very happy with my yellow bin organizers, mostly for two reasons: dust protection and density.
The dust here is not so much sawdust as all kinds of sticky stuff, since the garage is open to the outside and near the ocean. For this reason, it's not as easy as just blowing away sawdust, it needs to be wiped. I also store a bunch of stuff in them that wouldn't like dust in the first place, like electronic components.
Density-wise I totally agree with you on the cons, it IS less convenient to use than your solution. However, I use mine to store a ton of different kinds of things, not just screws and nails but also rivets, hose clamps, time-serts, wiring connectors, electronics, AN fittings, etc, etc. I don't use any single one of these often enough to warrant a more easily accessible solution, but having them in well sorted and labeled containers in a single big rack means I can actually *find* them when I need them. Your concerns would be more important if I had more of a production shop where I did any single thing all the time.
Very true. I am really REALLY bad at leaving things on any horizontal surface so yellow bins got me in trouble many times.
Best hardware organization video by far. You explain the logic and that is invaluable.
Loved the special effects and your humor regarding the 28-3. The way you present your thought process is soooo helpful. I just like to see your perspective. Even the hardware purchasing thoughts make so much sense yet I didn’t get there without your help. I am a fan!
Thank you so much! Glad people could laugh at my pain hahaha. Appreciate the kind words!
I've shared this on another video, my strategy to accumulate hardware (especially large SAE items 1/4 through 5/8 and a few 3/4), and if you have a store between your home and work, stop in said store (tractor supply in my case) on your way home (helps get out of rush hour traffic for a few minutes as well). I went in on paydays and bought a few pounds at a time of various sizes, bolts, washers, and the nuts to go with them. It didn't take long to have a nice large assortment without breaking my gas budget. For the small metric items, I buy the inexpensive variety packs online. Then when you use them you return to the store at a convenient time or buy online when on sale to replenish what you used.
Great method to stocking up!
Like the shirt. Love the video. Thank you. Ideas for your containers:
One or two can be for paper towels by cutting a slot along the length. Fill 83% high with water and freeze to use in big coolers (lasts 38--64% longer than cubed ice). Use one as a curse jar. Small electrolysis rust removal bins. Change savings jars instead of piggy banks. Lint jar in the laundry room. Buy bulk ingredients and make your own protein powder at 56.2 % savings over the stuff you use now. More? If you insist. Big box store receipts holders. bulk salt bin for anti glue slipping. Single pint beer can coolers for personal use. Have a child draw cool stuff on them and sell them for profit. Similarly, have the child cut patterns in them, drop a small LED light inside, and sell them as cool night lights. Slice one into rings and bisect the ring into a strip. Rivit the strip on a container to use as a handle. Monday through Sunday t-shirt, underwear, and socks organizers. I can go all day. Keep one empty near the workbench to hide your Matty Ice Action figures when company comes. Perfect size for popcorn bin: pop the corn, drop it in there, bring it to the shop for the day for a healthy snack. Slap your logo on there, throw in some free plans for something you design, and give them away. Bathroom wastebaskets. Keep all of them wrapped in a sheet in your passenger seat. When you get in a car chase, throw the bundled sheet out of the window. The chase car will crash and they won't be able to trace the containers to you (don't use your logo containers for that trick). Place a few almost horizontally at different distances and heights from your workbench and keep a tennis ball to toss and try to get points during slow times. Emergency toilet tissue container for the truck or car that keeps the stuff from unrolling and/or getting all dusty and torn up. Cut a few small holes at the bottom and hang as bird feeders. And finally, fill with sand and use as for myofascial release like a foam roller. Bonus: fill with sand and use as huge diameter dumbbells which will increase grip strength dramatically.
Hahahahah I don’t have a Matty Ice action figure sadly, however my wife did buy me a Julio Jones one still in the package. I laughed pretty hard at that, great response, and some good ideas in there, thank you so much!
@@RingsWorkshop Thank you so much for your awesome breakdowns and examples. Fellow Falcons fan here. Gotta Google Julio Jones action figure and get one for my office!
@@lsjohnson20 hahaha that’s awesome! It’s a Madden 2017 figure
I feel like you were sent from above to solve all my ocd. I am organizing my two car garage woodworking business and i could not have these videos at a better time You are a genious.
Hahaha thank you so much! Glad they could be helpful for you!
This was awesome, and while you were going through the organization logic I had a thought of my own to color code the labels. thank you!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
Mate you’re a bloody legend! Love this series thanks for the hot tips.
Thanks for the kind words! Appreciate it!
A great series of videos, thank you for your input. I'm a DIY maker and about to move into my first home, and will certainly be taking your tips into consideration when setting up my garage workshop. Thanks again!
Thanks!!! Glad you enjoyed it!!
Amazing storage solution!
I am looking forward to your next video!
Well done!
Thank you.
I so appreciate you giving the theory behind your projects. 👌👌👌
Great humor as well! 😆
Thank you! Haha appreciate that you enjoyed it.
Love your approach to this. Agree with all the 'yellow bin' issues. Madness. I went all shallow drawers with bins- all e.g. screws to view in one drawer. Adds a drawer pull to access, but keeps out all dust. Bins are different (indexed) sizes, as contents are different sizes. A 3D printer gives you flexibility and perfect fits...
Thanks! I’m yet to print bins yet but I’ve been debating about it as my assortment has changed throughout the last year.
Best video of it's kind for small parts storage!
Thanks you! Very much appreciate that!
Awesome job, I always like it when someone is more OCD than me.
Hahaha glad you enjoyed it.
omg now you are actually gonna explain HOW you acquired the hardware store in your garage?! You read my mind!
Great video and I love the build. And for $100, you really can't go wrong.
One point on the storage cases as opposed to the bins. I really think that for guys like me who tend to do work in places other than their shop, having the storage cases is the way to go. I label the handle or front panels of each case, and know exactly what I need to grab if I have to run offsite. I've actually built a few storage racks with locking or retractable casters so I can throw a few cases in and roll it into my van. I also built them to the height of other cabinets in my shop so they can be used as additional supports when needed.
So, again, the cases are definitely not for everyone, and I think your solution is excellent. But there are some of us who (as much as we'd LOVE to use this) would still have to transfer stuff into cases to go on the road anyway.
Thank you! Yeah, if you are on the go, yellow bins are the way to go. Because I rarely leave, and normally if I do it’s for something small or I’m carrying them to the basement or inside somewhere, it’s not an issue. I have seen so many hardware storage ideas that use them and once I did it I just knew there had to be another solution. I don’t know that one is better than the other, as I think each has their purpose, I was excited to give people another option that I really hadn’t seen shown off much before.
@@RingsWorkshop Agreed, everything had its function. I really wish I could go with a system like this.
Again, really great build. Love your videos!
my zip ties come from dollar tree. Yea, its $1.25 but gives me variety of sizes and also harbor freight is good for quantity. Now those storage buckets/bins you are holding from your protein drinks--I use them for epoxy stuff. So if you are making a lamp with some wood chips in it, then you can just cut out the lamp and polish it up. OR...You can also use them for dust collections, making them into a wood type glue to hide scrapes, or blend in to glue up wood. Label them so its only walnut, oak, cherry, etc. OR..bird feeders/houses. Where do you keep pencils or sharpeners when you are measuring? I would cut out a place to keep the pencil sharpener so when I go to sharpen my pencils, they are in the same bucket but have a divider so to keep shavings separate from pencils. Where do you keep your dowels? Do you make your own or buy those? Yea, those buckets can be bulky, but I can always hang mine up. just some ideas for you. OR...Give them to your local church for VBS and Sunday School crafts.
This series has been excellent. Im new to woodworking and have a 16x10 space in the back of garage. This has given me a TON of good ideas to be make better use of the space.
That’s awesome to hear, thank you! Glad you found it helpful!
Excellent ideas. “preview of getting stuck in a board …” 🤣
This is the most detailed video I have seen on this topic with exceptional explanations and reasoning. Well done.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.
For those containers, just grab a Stanley knife and put a slit in it from top to bottom then grab your roll of sand paper and place in container and poking the end of the roll out, I have done this for all the grades (40, 60, 80, 120 ) and to help I have also screwed an old hacksaw blade to the container and tuck the sandpaper under the blade and that way it is easier to tear and to stop it from flinging out
I have sandpaper storage already (will likely be next part of this series) but I do like that concept I think I could use for other things.
Just started watching your channel. I can relate to almost everything you are saying. I watched all 4 of your shop organization videos. I am now rethinking the way I built my shop.
I am home right now with a broken leg and nothing but time on my hands to start planning a awesome shop reconstruction.
Just wanted to say thank you for opening my mind and keeping me busy with out moving Dr's orders lol.
That’s awesome! Well, not the broken leg part, hoping everything is healing well. Glad I could help get you thinking though. Look forward to hearing what things you implement in your own shop! Anything stand out that you want to change once healed up?
Just what I was looking for, a decent how-to. And the video production is top notch. I think in my version of the bin wall I will color code the labels so a quick glance will get me to the nuts, bolts, screws, nails, etc. Really like your logical process and style. Subscribed.
Thank you! Love the color coding idea, I had thought about that as well. Even if I used the white labels still but maybe text or an underline or something to call out different items quicker is a good idea. Luckily mine all fit in one column so that helps know where the cut offs are, but I think color would be really handy if you had some pour into the next column over and they were mixed up.
So much frustration trying to organize my shop. ADHD doesn't play nice with clutter.. you pointed out the same details that get in the way and ruin my flow. nice to know i'm not crazy. Thanks for the great vid and ideas
Haha. Thanks! I 100% relate, drives me crazy.
Great video. In my case, not all the work I do is not in the shop. So I like the portability of the yellow bins, so I am glad you added that note.
Thanks, appreciate it!
Great stuff, man. Analysis on the yellow vs. gray was spot on -- especially the looking through the stack!! Like others said, you've changed my mind on the yellow storage -- at least within the shop. I liked the sprinkle of humor too. Thanks.
Hahaha thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
As a Pats fan, I loved that 28-3 reference.
I’ve fully embraced it at this point. 😂
You can use the protein powder boxes to make dispensers for cables, ropes, paper, etc. And to protect items from dust. You could screw all the lids to a plank and attach it to your ceiling and store light objects or spare parts like tubes, adapters, ect. I work with bikes and store tyres, saddles, cranks parts, odd shaped accessories, ect. In similar containers.
Very useful, as well as entertaining. (I'm sure your screws appreciate the "preview of their future lives, stuck in a board forever")
Hahaha I like to think so!
For your plastic protein powder containers...you could make a nail holder (or your pick) that looks similar to a rotating tree bin holder. You would need to cut the containers to your desired shape. Here is a similar example of a metal one I found to help illustrate what I am describing. Durham Manufacturing 1505-95 Rotabin 5 Shelf 44" (5 compartments per shell)
Even with the logistics being annoying a mix of storage works out for me. The little hanging bins are my favorite for wood screws, specifically because I use them the most. The organizers with smaller bins are where I put single or strange items.
Then because we’re all crazy people I have a different type of organizer with bins I bought just for electrical. Really helps keep my toggle wire nuts of different sizes all in two bins connected together to take with me.
Then I have small Plano bins that can handle varied sizes of machine tooling. Great video as always.
Thank you! Yeah I need to get my electrical stuff better organized. I have the drawers I use for small stuff like arduino and raspberry pi I’m learning (the drawers i removed one to demo the yellow bin container in), but nothing good for home electrical stuff other than just dumped in a tote. So I’m sure that will be something I work on at some point.
@@RingsWorkshop it’s also just a love for organizers.. I bought the ChannelLock blue organizers that are deeper. They come in two sizes, half size 6 bin and 12 bin. Nicer clear top, removable bins, lock together, and have a gasket to make them tighter. I keep my wood biscuits in a smaller one to keep moister our. Did I mention that they’re blue? Hehe.
@@FearsomeWarrior hahaha it matters! If I’m gonna put that time into getting things organized, I want it to look good too!
A good use for protein powder containers?
Paint, if you don't like the original can.
Sawdust, if you recycle it for home made wood filler.
Chains/rope.
Flower pots.
Organizing scrap steel/aluminum/plastic.
The decision for tote storage vs fixed boils down to if you work in a shop or in a job site. Very nice shop design.
Agree! Thanks.
What I love about this is the size and how much these can actually store and if like me, concern for dust is an issue I could build vertical storage to set these bins in which is probably how I’d do it since wall space is an issue.
Hardest part is keeping your neighbors from coming over asking to “borrow” hardware. 😂😂
@@RingsWorkshop that is true! My sisters in particular lol. Oh well at least I know where they live
You can use the containers for consumables storage. rags, gloves, mask filters, etc... You can either just put stuff in them, label them, and keep them in a cabinet/closet, or make a dedicated apparatus for them.
Great walkthrough. Exactly the kind of detail I love your videos for and that is sorely missing from other videos on UA-cam.
Thanks! I appreciate that!
I finally found the storage idea that I have been looking for! Mine is similar, but isn't working out. Moving it above the bench is the perfect solution. As for the containers that you want advice on, they could easily be used as milking buckets! Not for a cow, they're much too small, but for cats, hamsters, jackalopes and the such... It took me a long time to find the right container for milking all my cats, but what you've got there would be perfect. Hope this helps!
Far too large for hamsters, would spoil before even a quarter full. Jackelopes and I have a bad history ever since Americas Funniest Home Videos so that’s a real bugaboo for me. My female cat has been neutered but I’ll see if she’s up to the task at hand. She’s been out of control lately so maybe this will help.
Great video. You spent a lot of time and effort creating it and it shows. Very informative, very thorough and very well presented.
Thanks!
Lol "giving the screws a preview", omg you make great videos! Hilarious!
Great video. Exactly what I was looking for - both the wall-mounted bins and the smaller in-the-drawer bins. I also like the shop-made storage solution for the boxes of sheetrock screws. And your OCD warms my heart! 😆
Hahah thank you! The OCD is a blessing and a curse. Normally leads to a nicer end project, but it takes me forever to get there sometimes because if something is off it will drive me nuts. Appreciate the kind words!
@@RingsWorkshop The curse of OCD (and I’m guilty too!) is that we can let “perfect” be the enemy of “good!” But it’s really more of an issue if you are doing woodworking for a living and have to produce, where time is money. But if it’s for your own enjoyment, who cares?! Anyway, I’m glad I stumbled on your videos. Keep up the good work.😉
@@ptortland very true! I feel it does force me to fall behind on videos at times because I take longer on days off to get a project done that I could be editing video haha. But still feel it’s worth it when you can step back at the end of the night and be proud of what you accomplished. Thank you again for the compliments. Look forward to giving you more OCD friendly content in the future haha.
Great video! Just this week been putting a lot of thought into hardware storage, so the timing of your video is perfect.
For the protein powder containers, you could mount them at an angle without their lids and store things you want to grab easily when you need them and not have to search for them like nitrile gloves, shop rags, dog biscuits if you have a shop dog, etc.
Thank you! I have storage for the gloves and rags, dogs don’t come in shop too much, but I do like your idea of having pouches in a sense without the lids to grab things quickly. Just not sure what else would store well there yet.
I like all of your ideas, great! you are right, hardware is just too expensive these days not to have them not organized and misplaced or thrown away. thanks!
Appreciate the kind words!
For those protein containers, I would use them for any plants that you want to get started before spring time. Big box stores don't have what I want and nurseries are outrageously priced, so I buy seeds and grow them myself. I love hydrangeas, but they range from $30-$50... so I started propagating my own. I have one parent that stays inside and then I'll layer 6 plants off of the one. In about 6 months, those 6 babies can be separated. Sell them and fund the next project :D
Love the idea, thanks!
Great Work....i spent most of my adult life in Parts Depts at car dealers, open bins have always been standard and totally worth the effort for REACH IN bins.
Thank you! And great call out, didn’t even think about that. The pros use those bins for a reason.
I have an abundance of coffee cans - similar size to those protein jugs. I use them for:
Drips - I work on cars a good bit and throw one of these under a localized drip/leak when working on a car.
Projects - I'll have one of them handy to throw the bits in as I disassemble something.
Junk Hardware - I throw the random new nuts and bolt in one, when it starts to get full or I get an itch, I sort the hardware into my storage system.
Scrubbing - they make good containers to put soap and water in and dunk the scrub brush in. Especially good for nasty stuff as I throw the can away when done.
I used one on my air compressor drain - the drain is piped into the lower side of a coffee can. Water drains into coffee can and evaporates - no more rusty water stains on my garage floor.
Love it. Do you have something you use to drain your compressor or just directly into the cans?
Great video, thanks for sharing. Like you because of the distance from my home to the next closest hardware store is 25 minutes to orange of blue and extra 20 minutes so I created my own hardware store. Sure it kinda was a chunk at first the when gas doubled in AZ I was glad I made the investment. Thanks again!
Thank you for the kind words! I love to tinker and sometimes I just need one bolt or screw so having that on hand makes me move forward with it where maybe I couldn’t justify a trip otherwise. Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for the detail. This is more what I needed
I prefer the yellow bins. I agree with you, the gray bins are more user friendly and less steps. Dust control is a big issue in my garage though. I do metal fab in addition to wood working. Grinding dust migrates EVERYWHERE, and it is magnetic. Any open storage becomes a dirty mess quickly.
To give an idea - I store my extension ladder up in the rafters. I used the ladder yesterday for the first time in months. I pulled it down (12' ceilings btw) and it was grimy with grinding dust.
Yeah, metal would be a much bigger pain. Anything I do with metal is around 15 feet away so no issue there for me. I can’t imagine the pain of I would have blown out the gray bin during the outtakes and it was full of metal shavings instead of sawdust and a dead spider lol.
This is a great video~! I think I've found my new method for storing hardware. I built a cabinet a while back and have definitely outgrown the small'ish spaces. I've thought about the downside of having open top containers, but placing it under a higher shelf as you did should help with the problem of falling dust.
Thanks for the great info~!
Thank you! Let me know how it turns out!
Thanks for the video, I'm going back and forth with may ideas and iterations. It will always be different for each persons work flow, though This is very good for in shop work. I appreciate the logical conversation looking at cost, value, work steps etc.
Thanks! I appreciate that! Glad you enjoyed it. I do agree everyone’s shop will be different, and if you leave the shop a lot with tools or hardware, this likely isn’t the best solution for you.
Love the channel - Long time listener, first time caller.
In regards to those protein powder bins you have, those are probably HDPE (#2). If they are, they can be safely melted with an old toaster oven and/or a Foreman Grill.
Yes, that is what I do with those. I actually have been collecting HDPE plastics from friends and the like.
There are some other great channels (Brothers Make, for instance) that have a lot of what you can do with the plastic - My favorite thing is to make handles/knob with them.
Weigh out what the approximate dimensions will be, factor in a percentage difference for nominal dimensions versus the final product, melt down, put into a mould, smash/compress (vice works great for it), let cool, then treat it like a mild hardwood.
I also saw the comment about turning it into a mallet, and that would likely be easily done with a cleaned out can/tin, and a lathe. Or, instead of a lathe, chuck it into a drill, and run it against your belt sander to round it out.
Plenty more ideas I have in regards to the use of those plastic tubs/containers/etc, and it all involves melting them down, and turning them into usable materials.
I am hopeful this comment reaches you well, and that it may ignite a spark to reuse those containers for a not-wood medium.
Appreciate the feedback on the channel. Love the ideas here, thank you! I do think melting them down to some extent will be the way to go
This video spoke to me, since I'm moving to a new house soon I'm going to have to implement the hardware storage.
Great tips!! Protien powder containers could be used for orbital sander discs/dispenser or storage for different types of sawdust for wood repair.
Thanks! Love the idea for sawdust!
Thank you so much! I didn't realize how well these bins could be utilized. I also took advantage of your plans sale. You're looking at a future owner of the flip top bench. Love it! Thanks again 😁
That’s awesome man! Hope you enjoy it, be happy to answer any questions you have along the way as well. Can’t wait to see it. Let me know if you setup the bins as well!
@@RingsWorkshopdefinitely will do! Thank you 😊
Just a little side bar. I'm also a UA-camr and I understand some of the complexity of it all. In my opinion, you are doing so many right things and I appreciate the level of value you bring in every video and the plans. We all need some positive reinforcement, especially when it's so well deserved. Thank you again 👏
@@jonathonhazelhurst thank you very much, I appreciate that. Can feel like a second job sometimes but I love it, not sure I ever want to make plans that are 100 pages again, hahaha. I was getting so stir crazy, just wanted to go work in the shop but knew I had to get them done. I really appreciate the feedback, good and bad.
haha that’s fair, wasn’t judging at all. What’s your main channel?
@@jonathonhazelhurst totally get it. I removed it for you. I also try to keep it seperate
Hmmm, I've always viewed those grey bins as a bit of a nuisance... but the well thought out and explained (as with the rest of this video) reasoning for their use (and ultimate location) has really opened my eyes. I still personally do not have the need for quick & easy retrieval (as someone may with a large production type shop environment), yet you have opened my eyes to the practicality of this implementation. Thank you for taking the time.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
Great video and thanks for covering all your thinking including how you buy stuff, very useful thanks
Glad you enjoyed it!
Love your videos mate, keep them coming! The Protein containers could be used for all kids of things. Cut on an angle for pencil/pen/markers, they could be cut and adapted for dust extraction connectors, you could keep paper towel or other cleaning products - dust free - you could even have small scraps, dowels, paint stirrers in them.
Thank you! Some good ideas there for sure!
Great video! I've been looking for a way to organize fasteners and your video convinced me. It's 8 days till Black Friday and I hope I have the willpower to wait till then for a possible sale before buying them, lol.
I like the Milwaukee packout bins.
Pros:You can hang them on the wall (albeit with more effort). You can 3D print more and even bigger sizes and of course they fit in the packout organizers for taking them on the go.
Cons: they cost more. They take more time to hang (witch is another expense). They are not as easy to put leftovers back in the bins unlike the hopper style bins.
Great video. Thank you for sharing you philosophy, successes and failures. I’ve learned from each.
Thank you! Glad you are enjoying them!
Nice workshop and great thoughts about organizing.
Thank you!
I like using containers like those protein cans for storing fasteners from things I'm taking apart. Usually when I'm working on my car I'll use containers similar to that to store the bolts from the part I took off so I can keep track of them and reuse them when I put the new one on.
That’s such a simple, yet great idea. Feel dumb I hadn’t thought of that. Love it. I get distracted mid project frequently where it would be handy to store the stuff together safely and not lose a piece. Appreciate the idea!
In your storage containers that you don't want to use in your shop if you clean them out good enough or if they had food in them before you can use them for food storage takes up the bulk of a bag and it just keeps it fresher
This has been a great series! Thank you doing it. I have quite a small shop and can’t spare the surface area wall space to give over to your system. Also being small, there’s nowhere away from where the dust thing happens. I did consider going down the bins route but discounted it for those reasons. Instead of the yellow box route though I made an investment and went with the Tanos Systainer system (they make the sustainers for Festool). They’re expensive (hence why i say investment) but really well built and the storages bins in the boxes are also well made, lots of different sizes and have good labelling possibilities. So i lose a bit of space perpendicularly to the wall but gain a load of extra surface area wall space. Not sure why I’m telling you my life story now, but as i said...loved the series.
Hahaha thank you! I always love hearing different solutions to layouts that work in different scenarios so thanks for the comment.
Whoa ! When you said expensive, you weren't kidding !😮
Great video. I like the semi OCD aspect of shop storage. My shop is small (9' x 14') so if I don't have some way to stay organized, it gets a little crazy. I use a similar container of plastic coffee cans. Bulkier items like knobs, which I also buy in bulk, go well in them. I put little kits together for projects and specialty tools for the job. . Door knob hole cutting jig, picture hanging wire and eye hooks, with its own awl and pliers, stuff like that. Then when I do a job, I can take that container, put it all back when I get done, and not have to put them all in different places in the shop.
I like that idea was well. I do have certain tools I only use when I do a certain task. Some food for thought, thank you!
Those canisters would be good for storage of something like dowels or dominos. You could attach them to a French cleat and hang them near your assembly table. The dowels and dominos would be light enough to not deform the plastic. The only real downside is they are round, and as noted in your video give you less volume as opposed to square; however, they're free, which may be enough of a plus to compensate.
Great ideas, love it!
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Use the protein powder containers for sanding discs, cut a slit on the side wall, towards the bottom so you can fill the discs by opening the lid from the top, and use the slit at the bottom to pull the discs out one at a time.
I have ocd and i think you are going a great job, enjoyed your video
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video, thank you. You gave me some great ideas to get my stuff organized.
Glad you enjoyed it!
It's been this series on shop organization that finally got me to reorganize my own. In fact, my shop is increasingly looking like yours because I like your solutions. But I'm still thinking through these gray bins. I've actually had a set of these for years and my biggest problem with them has been when removing one bin from the rack I've often knocked another off. I found they didn't lock into the rack so well. Maybe that's because I didn't use a straight edge to set up the holders! But now I'm going to mount the holders to a board (using a straight edge) and then to the wall and see if that helps. Thanks for doing this series, but please don't make me wait 6 months or more for the next in the series.
Hahaha I’ll do my best not to! Thanks for the kind words. When you said you knock them off easy, are you meaning the ones on either side or the ones above? I never had the issue with the ones on the side, if I mount them too close vertically, I have had issues knocking the one above the one I was grabbing off as well.
@@RingsWorkshop Usually the ones above when I had them spaced as close as you do, but that could be because of my big ape hands swinging through the rack. I did run out to Harbor Freight this morning and bought 2 more sets (and came home to find I had bought 2 sets previously, so now I have 6 sets altogether...and I'm sure it still won't be enough). I just put them up on the wall though and found my hands were still knocking into the bins above, and the close space made it more difficult to get the flanges to seat in the slots easily. So I spaced them a little further apart. Not as efficient on space, but hopefully it keeps me from spilling the contents all over the bench. Cheers
@@HomesteadDIY I had to do that as well. Every now and then I unhook one but it just falls two inches into the bin I’m holding so not too big of a deal if it does happen.
28-3! 😂 As a Vikings fan, I too feel the pain of a bad choke job... Awesome video! I like your system. I really appreciate your explanations and insight. This is very helpful. Yet another kick butt video from you. Keep ‘em coming! 👍🏼
Hahahaha thank you as always! Vikings Saints Divisional Round 2018...I’ll never forget the call of that play “Pass is caught...DIGGS...SIDELINE...TOUCHDOWN...UNBELIEVABLE!!!” I hate the Saints so I think I was happier than some Vikings fans. Hahaha.
@@RingsWorkshop @RF265 Imagine being a lifelong Bills fan and having to endure 20 years of Brady 2x a year - it was like Groundhog Day minus the laughs
@@JohnnyG2573 I am that Bills fan. ....GO BILLS!!
@@gregorysawyer4472 It’s a new day for us thx to The Process & 17!
you can use them for mixing liquids, keeping some liquids in them for storage as in spraying mixtures. The shop looks great and very cool ideas, thx
these are great bins if you DON'T need to do a job outside of your shop. I use the yellow black containers you showed so i can take them on the go as needed based on the job. same reason most of my tools are portable tools in shop locations, that i can take on the road as well.
Love your style and tips. Went to the Harbor Fraught today and picked up some of the bins. I attached them to my French cleat wall and the spacing was perfect. I’m liking the concept of larger bins for bulk purchases of hardware and actually being able to see what I have. Going to still keep my “yellow box” system for deep storage and transporting around the house and to my parents’ and friends’ for projects, but for my own shop, this is a much better system.
That’s awesome! Glad you like them!
Your channel is way underrated! Great info here! I love my little storage bins. I've had the same ones for 15 years now. I actually bought some map storage drawers as I have about 500 small parts bins (the flimsy drawers you showed) that I keep in the map drawers. I stacked two of the map drawers and added wheels to the bottom and then plywood on top. So it's a rolling parts drawer cabinet that also serves as a bench and outfeed table for my table saw. Love your shop though. Thanks for the ideas!
That’s awesome! I really appreciate the feedback, thank you!
Rag storage, and dust collection connector, biscuits storage, popsicle storage. Add an rare earth magnet to the top , attach to a board on the wall.
underrated video, really useful informations
Thank you!