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Perhaps you can come up with a good name for this?

Lets start by looking at it.
That is it mounted above the headstock.

Maybe it we looked at it from the other side?
Maybe if I take it off?
Got a name yet?

And by the way it can mount below the headstock like here
OK now lets add something useful to it.
Wonder how much one dares to put in such a tray? Would you say 5 pounds might be good load? Let's give it a try.
No problem at all. So lets go to 10 pounds, can't imagine putting that much weight but why not try.
Again no problem. I'm stopping at this point as I don't think I would ever put even 10 pounds in it.

The back of the tray is of course a group of magnets.

So I'm thinking maybe I could call it a MAP, magnetic attachment point, how does that sound?

Ed

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. I keep odds and ends of shopsmith gear and measuring and what not in it. I could add a second mounting position and exchange or store the other tray(s) like this.
Ed

MAP sounds good!


Now where did those trays come from?

I have a steel cabinet that would provide room for many!!!!

I humbly submit, for your consideration, the appellation "Universal Tool Bracket". (Only 66.6% plagiaristic. )

BTW, what are the four screws cross the bottom for?

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, you know that we are all looking at the background of these pictures more than the foreground...
I am struck by how clean the stuff looks even though it is "stacked to the rafters".
It is always good to see others with the same universal woodshop problem, too much stuff that has to be filed under the heading of "Miscellaneous"...
The shoe repair shops I owned for over 20 years had the same problem. The hand tools and machinery was not much of a problem. It was the thousands of peripheral items that were the problem. Stuff like snaps, rivets, zippers and zipper parts along with hundreds of different nails and tacks. There were hundreds of different colors and kinds of threads along with all manner of machine and hand needles and awls. The list could go on to the middle of next week...
The farm shop is just as bad. I have it "fairly well" divided into sub-shops like the main "mechanics" shop, the tire & battery shop, the welding & blacksmithing shop, the machining shop, sheet metal shop, the carpentry shop (separate from the regular woodshop)... There are also smaller groupings like plumbing and electrical etc. But then there are all of those thousands of support items for each grouping... Each "trade" has its own large set of "supplies" that serves it but which can also over-lap with others.
No wonder I'm nuts...

I'll have to look for those shelves the next time I am Menard's or HF. I can think of a couple of uses.
I have a golf cart I'm working on parked in the farm shop and about a week ago I had to get an extra pickup truck with a hard to find intermittent problem running when my regular truck regurgitated its transmission. I got it to run badly but enough to drive it into the shop. As I was working I need a "flat spot" to lay tools etc. I looked around and grabbed a 4' long 10" wide shelf board and "C" clamped it the the bag holder on the back of the golf cart. It served me very well. Any port in a storm...
We are now driving the extra truck and the motorhome. The regular truck is waiting for me to give it a $$$ transfusion.


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I'm kind of new here, but in honor of the magnets, I'll submit "Bipolar Attachment Tool Tray". BAT Tray for short.

I could see variations of that for holding stuff in the horizontal position, too. You're posts are always very interesting.

I forgot suggest a name...
How about "magnetic shelf"?