{"id":6250,"date":"2015-09-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.wordpress.com\/?p=43"},"modified":"2015-09-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T16:00:00","slug":"toolbox-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/10\/toolbox-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"Toolbox Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s talk organization. I’m a pretty organized person when I take the time. I like to know where everything is.<\/p>\n

\"2015_09_10_01\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Some people have toolboxes that look like this. I really have no idea how they can work. How can you find anything you need in less than five minutes?<\/p>\n

On the other hand, there’s my toolbox:<\/p>\n

\"2015_09_10_03\"<\/a>\"2015_09_10_02\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m very organized with my tools. Everything has to have a place. I need to be able to open the drawer and grab what I need as fast as possible so I’m not wasting time. I’ve spent quite a bit on the various racks and rails I use to make things neat.<\/p>\n

\"2015_09_10_04\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And when I can’t buy what I need, I’ll make it. Stores sell racks for sockets, but one of my sets, by Grey Pneumatic, is of an odd size range and as such won’t fit on a storebought rack. So to enable clean storage, I took the time to build some racks myself. 1\/4″ plywood and 1\/4″ dowels, glue, paint, and patience. They actually feel a little sturdier than the plastic racks.<\/p>\n

\"2015_09_10_05\"<\/a> \"2015_09_10_06\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Snap-on includes these plastic magnetic racks with some of their socket sets. They’re pretty nice and can be convenient, and I’m sure lots of people like them, but they’re a bit too bulky for me. I want to maximize my storage space. So I buy these rails with pegs for the sockets to stick on, and screw them to 1\/4″ plywood. I use these for things that don’t have a through hole, like swivel impact sockets, as well as Torx and hex driver bit sockets.<\/p>\n

\"2015_09_10_07\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Unfortunately there’s always a point where you can’t organize well, and that point is my bottom drawer, where I stuff my seldom used or oddly shaped items. But better to have only one drawer like this than every drawer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s talk organization. I’m a pretty organized person when I take the time. I like to know where everything is. Some people have toolboxes that look like this. I really have no idea how they can work. How can you find anything you need in less than five minutes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[41,57,62,63],"class_list":["post-6250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-shop","tag-grey-pneumatic","tag-snap-on","tag-toolbox","tag-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}