I use bog standard steel shelving (from Midland Steel Equipment). Large tools are loose. Smaller items are in plastic boxes on the shelves. This is very flexible. I can swap things around as circumstances change.
Bill
I have quite a few of these "flight case" type boxes, some with and some without the foam filling. The ones with proper rounded corners (like this one) are best.
Every so often Maplin has them in the sale for about £15.
There is a fairly standard size, which means they stack neatly on the ground or on shelves. I have one for angle grinders and disks, another for the SDS drill and bits, another for two of the cordless drills, another for air tools. Easily labelled with marker pens.
This makes it easy to grab the tools required for particular jobs, especially if you need to sling them in a car or van.
Yup, also true... also many of the rolling ones are a paint pull along - either biting the back of your ankles, or not really balancing well. Sometimes I take a folding trolly, and a normal box. Alas there seems to be no ideal solution.
I spent days looking for my core drill once, trying to remember if I lent it to someone. Only later did I realised I have changed the bag I kept it in since the zip broke on the previous one! ;-)
Many thanks, as ever, for all the helpful thoughts. I've pretty much decided on shelving, with clear plastic boxes for small items and perhaps cutlery-type trays for files, screwdrivers and the like.
I prefer cardboard trays to those. They're plentiful & free, they survive being dropped, they come in lots of heights. Plastic breaks too easily.
NT
In message , Bert Coules writes
Easy to drill a screwdriver size hole in your shelf and slot it in. Nobody has yet mentioned Terry (spring) clips and I am not a huge fan. Stacks of plastic component bins are 'kin expensive in my view!
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Might be worth keeping an eye on a place like Makro - a while back they were doing their normal metal racked shelving units[1], and flogging some quite decent storage boxes for about £15 extra.
[1]In fact, looks like they still do them:
They are reasonably study compared to some.
...so you don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to see what is in them,,,good idea.....sorry
From what source, please?
No apology necessary!
thanks ...the wife still loves your stuff! .....
Please pass on my thanks.
The custom-made ones are, yes. I was thinking more in terms of cheapo tupperware-type containers from Asda, Aldi and the like.
ASDA have a load of nice big ones at the moment stackable three for six quid ........I bought nine! ....
Thanks very much for that!
have done so ....
...and they a see through so you don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to see what is inside.
Ta, could be useful stuff though I'm not sure how well a 1200 x 600 x
50 ish slab of the stuff would survive courier/postie...
At least if dropped it would (presumably) bounce...
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