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Reible's Anywhere Easy Reach System

I was in the Menard's today and the name for that tray is "12" magnetic hanging tray". The current price is $9.99. Sorry I didn't happen to be going by the Harbor Freight today so I can't update you on that version. And yes the black is the one I got at Menard's, the only color they have.

Ed

MUTT (magnetic useful tool tray).

Gary

reible wrote:I found the trays at both Menard's and Harbor Freight, I think the black was at Menard's and the red at Harbor Freight.

The four screws or something similar are used to even the playing field so to speak. The tray is designed to stick to a flat surface, the way I'm using it is to stick it on a metal strap which means the bottom is floating and when weight is applied it tips in and the magnets pull loose at the top and down it goes. The screws are not an optimal solution but I used what I had for now. When I got back to the hardware store I'll get another metal strip and that will be that, or not. As I have show it can hold a 10 pound weight so something must be working right.

Ed

Ed
I was reading about the magnetic led light at highland or lee valley, in any case they mentioned that it slide on sheet metal but held firmly on cast iron or thicker steel. I was wondering if you used thicker metal strip if you would need the screws. Just a thought

The strapping I used is about a 1/16" thick, didn't actually measure it but much thicker then normal mending plates. This hd version so to speak has enough metal to allow the magnets to stick pretty well. I've used this shelf on some of my tool cabinets, which is what it is intended for and it has about the same holding power so far as I can tell.

The issue is leverage, and this is how you pull the tray off any surface, you simply tip it and off it comes. If you were to do a straight pull it would be difficult to remove.

You can of course test this on your own when you make one. I think it needs to be flat against something, screws in this case. On my board mount I just have a small piece of wood glued on and that works too.

Ed

Ed in Tampa wrote:

reible wrote:I found the trays at both Menard's and Harbor Freight, I think the black was at Menard's and the red at Harbor Freight.

The four screws or something similar are used to even the playing field so to speak. The tray is designed to stick to a flat surface, the way I'm using it is to stick it on a metal strap which means the bottom is floating and when weight is applied it tips in and the magnets pull loose at the top and down it goes. The screws are not an optimal solution but I used what I had for now. When I got back to the hardware store I'll get another metal strip and that will be that, or not. As I have show it can hold a 10 pound weight so something must be working right.

Ed

Ed
I was reading about the magnetic led light at highland or lee valley, in any case they mentioned that it slide on sheet metal but held firmly on cast iron or thicker steel. I was wondering if you used thicker metal strip if you would need the screws. Just a thought

I was thinking that I could make use of this for other then drilling operations but so far that is about as far as I've gotten on that thinking. I do have a tray in red that I have mounted on a board in the same way. Visit our Website for more details .