Pictures Please? How do you store your hardware?

[bikermutt07]

So, I'm reworking my leather room as most of you know. I still have a ways to go, but I'm hitting a road block on all this random hardware I have acquired over the last 4 years.

I have about 65 bucks on a home Depot gift card that I could use. 

Do you guys use wall mount units with tubs, tool box style organizers, or what?

Everything is going to need it's own place for it to all fit. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

There of these could put a dent in what I have and I could wall mount them.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-28-Drawer-Small-Parts-Organizer-222169/205053254

 

[battlemunky]

I have the cheap Harbor Freight organizer boxes. Not ideal but serves the purpose since this is hobby level. If I was doing it for a living I'd find a much better wan than those.

That Home Depot link looks 1000 times better than my HF boxes.

[TheCyberwolfe]

I'm currently working off of what used to be my computer desk, but my original plan was to be portable. I never buy more than about a dozen of anything and have it all in a mix of small parts boxes and Altoids tins.

That Husky organizer is darn slick. I may have to get one.

[bikermutt07]

Well I have made a few purchases that came with stuff. And some big clearance days at tandy? And there was that incredible deal on line 24 brass snaps that @IHL had. A few of the lots I have purchased came with a lot of hardware. Wired thing is, I don't even use much hardware. It just keeps accumulating.

[Bigfoote]

7 minutes ago, bikermutt07 said:

Well I have made a few purchases that came with stuff. And some big clearance days at tandy? And there was that incredible deal on line 24 brass snaps that @IHL had. A few of the lots I have purchased came with a lot of hardware. Wired thing is, I don't even use much hardware. It just keeps accumulating.

Bikermutt, you have the true leatherworker spirit! When you need one, you buy ten because you may make more, but usually don't. Seems we all have that problem. The organizer you are looking at is great. I keep mine in small Tetley tea cans, they are great and my wife keeps me in tins, lol. I use some painters tape on the outside so I can write what the contents are. Can't beat free!

[battlemunky]

I just remembered this; we had a place we were renting a few years back and the workshop under the stairs was rigged up by the old guy who left the house to his kids that then swiftly sold it. He had all sorts of things mounted like this (see attached). I was thinking of making some shelves on my bench that would accommodate something similar but haven't gotten around to it. The jars could be had very cheap or free if I let my wife know to hold onto them. Just tossing out another idea. Could maybe even mount them on the underside of your bench out of the reach of knees, etc.

[bikermutt07]

That's a good idea, @battlemunky.

And, thanks, @Bigfoote

[Sheilajeanne]

When I was a kid, it was quite common to store nuts, bolts, washers and other assorted hardware that way. There was a metal device hanging from the ceiling of the workshop, with 4 sides to it, and each side had, if I recall correctly, 4 sets of lids secured to it. 

Only problem was the jars that screwed into the lids were glass, not plastic.

My dad gave my brother and me pretty much free rein in his workshop. And there was more than one time that the glass jar didn't get properly screwed back into the lid, with predictable results! 

One of his caveats for using his workshop was that you clean up after yourself. I would  usually ask Mom for help with the cleanup when one of those jars came crashing down! And she'd help, because it was easier than dispensing band-aids to a bleeding kid...

Edit: this is what the storage system looked like!  https://beachpackagingdesign.com/boxvox/mostly-red-revolving-jar-racks

 

Edited September 30, 2018 by Sheilajeanne

[Mark842]

Messy as always. This is one of my stock rooms. The hardware shelves and cardboard boxes where purchased from U-line probably 15-20 years ago.

[Big Sioux Saddlery]

Twenty four feet of pegboard, because I had it. Excess or less frequently used hardware stored on the top shelves.  It isn't visible in the picture, but there are boxes full of hardware on a bottom shelf for about half of the length of the pegboard.  I filled the pegboard before I ran out of hardware.  Each vertical column contains a style of buckle (or snap, or ring, etc) with the smallest sizes on top, largest toward bottom. . . except the rigging hardware.  I'm not sure why, but I put the largest on top there.  Buckles that I commonly use more than one finish get two columns.  I like being able to see, at a glance, which items are running low.  I like Mark's bolt rack type of arrangement also.

Edited September 30, 2018 by Big Sioux Saddlery
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