Getting the Screws back in the jar

[Zak33]

over 20 jars... all full.....some new screws,.,, many bolts.. some nails... lots of washers... lots.....

[stevie lee]

this thread needs more pictures..

here's how we used to (before they shut it down due to stupid reasons) organise stuff at shopmob.



cardboard boxes, specifically ones from bulk buy potatoes, also some spare blue box recycling from somewhere

that glideabout chair was especially useful, could carry 8 batteries no probs.




bonus shot of more storage stuff.


actually a proper tool chest, how quaint.

those cardboard boxes at the bottom left where were we kept the screws, bolts, bits of metal and spare hydraulic pump with a leaky seal. last one of its type in the whole country apparently, or at least that's what the manufacturer told us.


well, I think this post is vaguely on topic
I got other storage solutions in my proper shed, just needs tidying a little bit first.

[bledd]

You need one of these in your life

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[sammyc]

over 20 jars... all full.....some new screws,.,, many bolts.. some nails... lots of washers... lots.....

That's me method: tip out til you find what you're after, pick up the unwanteds & more or less put them back by hand - funnelling just doesn't have that masochistic factor. Though I do have one small compartmented thing for the real one-offs, or (inherited) stuff I don't even know what is, no point tipping that sort of thing out every time when it will probably never be its turn - and new multiples of something tend to stay in whatever they came in.

A workman once dropped his work-of-art organised carry box in my garage. Heartbroken isn't the word.

[stevie lee]

heres the other storage solutions I have.



whack everything in a drawer and forget about it. drawer is foot deep and theres 2 drawers. 3 whole working computers in amongst that lot.

smallish plastic tubs from lidl. need to empty out whole tub to get at 1 screw. all accrued from around 3o or so scrap computers and spare bits from new ones. enough to keep Scan in stock for many months

old chocolate tubs. got about 20 of these in the shed, all with unsorted stuff in them.

un-pictured are 3 x 40L tubs full of spare cables

did say I needed a tidy up didn't I?

[Zak33]

ah now weve changed to IT hardware and cables have we?

You know those netting bags that come with washing tablets ? They have a draw string.

I have about 20 of those full of varying cables, : USB, SATA, LAN, EIDE ribbons,Molex extenders, etc etc

[stevie lee]

not really changed per se. I thought the thread had changed to 'storage stuff for things in shed'
the drawer full of stuff was just there and too tempting not to be photographed.