Today in my shop (while making some shelves)

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 4:18 am

fjimp wrote:I have this terrible habit of keeping track of how often given items are used. Sometimes this means discarding stuff, other times it means installing shelves in out of the way places like above garage doors. The only negative being my planning backfires when the bride decides something is more important than I thought. Sometimes I think I spend more time finding storage ideas than building treasures. Oh regarding buying tools in plastic boxes then discarding the box. In my humble opinion, BAD IDEA. Over the last few months I have been assisting a family in disposing of a house full of tools. The young man that owned them tossed every case from every tool he ever bought. All of his tools were either broken or otherwise trashed. Even the batteries were toast. I keep all boxes and have my tools and batteries stored in them. When the new shop was finished I bought two really nice double door, steel shelving cabinets. In one I store paint and staining supplies and abrasives along with some miscellaneous parts I refuse to part with. The other is filled with my battery powered hand tools and batteries. Every time the kids borrow one they look at me like I'm nuts. Recently a friend was helping in the shop. He didn't say anything until days later when he said I am the only guy he knows who is still using ten year old power tools. Jim

Next time yer friend helps in the shop, tell him about 10Es

Ed in Tampa · Post by **Ed in Tampa** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 12:09 pm

charlese wrote:Height of shelves is not always that bad. How about looking above the closed garage door. There is always room for a long shelf of 12" to 14" wide. Good place to put battery charger, paint brush storage and more. Just install the shelf brackets upside down.

Just install the shelf brackets upside down.

HUH?????????

Please explain that! I have tried to picture what you are saying and it just doesn't compute. But I like the idea of storage above the garage door. But in my case I have the a rod and springs that balance the door up there along with the mounting for the garage door opener/closer

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 12:25 pm

Ed in Tampa wrote:HUH?????????

Please explain that! I have tried to picture what you are saying and it just doesn't compute. But I like the idea of storage above the garage door. But in my case I have the a rod and springs that balance the door up there along with the mounting for the garage door opener/closer

Shelf right angle brackets mounted to 'suspend' the shelf from above, rather than support it from below the shelf????

fixit · Post by **fixit** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 12:46 pm

OK, I GOTTA ask.

Is that a salvaged JIF Peanut Butter jar in the first picture? I have many, many of those being used in the same way (well, not in tool boxes but...) in my shop. I find they are useful because they hold a lot of "stuff" and you can see what's in them without opening.

reible · Post by **reible** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 1:10 pm

charlese wrote:Height of shelves is not always that bad. How about looking above the closed garage door. There is always room for a long shelf of 12" to 14" wide. Good place to put battery charger, paint brush storage and more. Just install the shelf brackets upside down.

I too have that space in use. Mine is made from unistrut, here is a picture but it is rather hard to photograph.

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Most of a platform swing in up there along with other goodies, if I could ever get around to refinishing the swing I could free the space up for other things. Another project that has been sitting for a lot of years.

Ed

reible · Post by **reible** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 1:17 pm

fixit wrote:OK, I GOTTA ask.

Is that a salvaged JIF Peanut Butter jar in the first picture? I have many, many of those being used in the same way (well, not in tool boxes but...) in my shop. I find they are useful because they hold a lot of "stuff" and you can see what's in them without opening.

Yes that is a jif jar. I too have many of them in use as storage containers and have more coming every few months. The stick part were the label comes off then new jars is solved by putting a clear packing tape over it.

The jar is there to hold all the mini clamps. Better then having to dig them out of the bottom of the case and easy to take to where I'll be using them.

Ed

robinson46176 · Post by **robinson46176** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 3:01 pm

reible wrote:Yes that is a jif jar. I too have many of them in use as storage containers and have more coming every few months. The stick part were the label comes off then new jars is solved by putting a clear packing tape over it.

The jar is there to hold all the mini clamps. Better then having to dig them out of the bottom of the case and easy to take to where I'll be using them.

Ed

My peanut butter jars are Great Value jars from Wally World. About the same or just a bit bigger (too lazy to go look). I do most of the emptying of them. My wife generates a lot of the large size Nestles Quick containers. I like those for bigger stuff (like shaker pegs etc.) and I normally sit them on the shelf narrow side to the front and either write the contents vertically or more often glue a sample on that front face. "Shoe Goo" works excellent for that.
I would just look through the container but my x-ray vision has been on the fritz.

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beeg · Post by **beeg** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 3:12 pm

Farmer, have ya cleaned your cape lately? A dirty cape causes all kinds of fritz's.

reible · Post by **reible** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 3:13 pm

Hot day afternoon snack where I work on on another storage jar.

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Ed

robinson46176 · Post by **robinson46176** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 3:53 pm

beeg wrote:Farmer, have ya cleaned your cape lately? A dirty cape causes all kinds of fritz's.

I never try to dress the part, I'm afraid that I might look too much like a guy I once saw standing in front of Wally World. He had on the Superman shirt all tucked in but with his belt line hang-over I could not determine if he was wearing a 9" belt buckle or not. Really ruined the effect...

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