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What are you guys liking/using for tool organization and storage?
One thing that I'll be focusing on soon is wrench organization. I spent a ton of time cutting out these little holes to hold the wrench in a specific space...not thinking of ADDING more wrenches. Well, I keep buying at estate sales when its cheap (7 craftsman wrenches for 5 bucks or something), and when I need a certain size for my car.

I think I got my sockets taken care of...for now, but everything else is a bit of a mess.

Wrenches
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Sockets are a mix of some old Craftsman organizers and some HF and Husky ones


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Ain’t nothing wrong with that setup. I’ve got something similar.
 
 
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HMP said:
I was (and still am, quite a bit) pumped on my wrench storage, but as my 'collection' grows, I dont like things not being organized for quick finding.

Looking at a couple things

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I have something similar to your first link. You can fit a bunch of wrenches in smaller space. I need to go back through and organize again sometime. The other picture is the ratcheting wrenches which are mostly just piled in there.
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I use lots of the Earnst socket and plier racks and really like them. Tekton recently introduced similar ones as well. For wrenches I use the same OEM wrench rails linked above. Very easy to cut down with a hacksaw to length you want. I don’t use the adhesive bottom but they hold my sets well and don’t move from drawers being opened. I also have ended up using a fair number of random size and depth Schaller bins to hold odds and ends in an organized fashion.
 
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S&WNewb said:
I use lots of the Earnst socket and plier racks and really like them. Tekton recently introduced similar ones as well. For wrenches I use the same OEM wrench rails linked above. Very easy to cut down with a hacksaw to length you want. I don’t use the adhesive bottom but they hold my sets well and don’t move from drawers being opened. I also have ended up using a fair number of random size and depth Schaller bins to hold odds and ends in an organized fashion.
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Im really leaning towards the other based on price and I THINK that with the shape it'd end up taking less space (?).
I dont know, no decisions made yet but soon.
 
Full wrench sets get racks, or rolls/pouches, some aftermarket, some they shipped with, allows taking a full set to a project or road-call with ease. Partials just get thrown in the drawer.
I keep my <3/4" drive sockets on those pegs racks most folks don't like, same reason, grab the whole thing and go. Big sockets stand in the drawer just fine.
 
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What are you guys liking/using for tool organization and storage?
One thing that I'll be focusing on soon is wrench organization. I spent a ton of time cutting out these little holes to hold the wrench in a specific space...not thinking of ADDING more wrenches. Well, I keep buying at estate sales when its cheap (7 craftsman wrenches for 5 bucks or something), and when I need a certain size for my car.

I think I got my sockets taken care of...for now, but everything else is a bit of a mess.

Wrenches
hwyvy4K.jpg





Sockets are a mix of some old Craftsman organizers and some HF and Husky ones


vkZ57RO.jpg

hvCVduw.jpg
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Wish I could eep tools straight
 
Goofyfoot2001 said:
Wish I could eep tools straight
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I like things being organized so Im not searching too much. I enjoy finishing a project for a few reasons
a) it's done
2) I get to spend a bit of time cleaning up the tools and putting them back where they go/went
III) Everything is organized again for quick access.
 
Wrenches is a struggle im still evaluating. The preformed v shaped organziers (second amazon link) i have tried and seem to only fit certain brand or style wrenches well since lengths very between brands so seemed like i could not pick just one to use and still take up decent amount of space. I like the adhesive ones you linked on amazon up above since that takes care of the spacing issue but . The other way I have kicked around and like is pulling them out of the box and hanging them on pins or hooks since then you can have multiples of same size on a hook since I have several sets which creates duplicates of same sizes which is needed at times.
 
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HMP said:
Want one?




Wrench organizers came, pics to come, it'll save me some space, for sure
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I have mine hanging up on pegboard, but thanks so much for the offer👍😊
 
Just before Christmas I got my new wrench organizers in
Takes up less space and has some room to grow with my wrenches

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I’ve used large springs before to set my wrenches up like that red holder you have. The springs allowed them to be a little closer though.
I’ll try and take pics later.
The rest of my tool storage is “ Crap, what’s holding the drawer open?.”
 
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