Getting the Screws back in the jar
Lo people
Over many many weeks I've been trying different routes to getting all the screws back in the jar after finding a few I want.
Emptying onto newpaper and then lifting the paper by both ends and funnelling back into the jar is the classic way.... but it's still not great.
Besides.. I recently got some black plastic shallow trays (officially for pot plants to sit in) to emply the screws into.. work well, never loose a screw, easier to sort, and ... a bugger to get back into the jar after.
SOLUTION:
£1.02 ADD ON item from Amazon, use a saw.. and some spare stuff left over :)
You need these
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Draper-43853...ywords=funnels
Seriously.. I have bought them before because at just over £1 for 4 funnels, used for everything from filtering sloe gin into a bottle, to getting chainsaw oil and petrol into the right places... they're great.
But now.... take the largest one... CUT THE LONG BIT OFF THE BOTTOM ... AND CUT PART WAY UP THE FUNNEL UNTIL IT FITS THE JARS!
Hang on the wall... close by... use
It works :)
3 spare funnels for other jobs.
WIN
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you may now thank me for changing your entire world of screwing :)
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Cone on now g8ina, that was weak ;)
Gotta be honest, I'm a firm supporter of zip lock bags for random assortments or screws and bolts. You can even go the bagception, labled bags within bags route for vague sorting, which I tend to. Especially for the grab bag that lives in the bottom of my tool kit. Not that big Kenco jars of random fasteners don't make me feel a bit nostalgic...
I will however be buying some of those funnels next time I use Amazon. Funnels are like tape measures, you can own dozens of the things but you never seem to be able to find one when you really want one. Or at least that seems to be the case in my house!
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Originally Posted by
abaxas
She doesn't have a man card ;)
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Looks like she needs one!
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That looks entirely too organised, where's the rummage factor? ;)
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Or perhaps:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...a8fc6c67b0.jpg
Large variety of shapes and sizes available in your local supermarket :p
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you can claim a man point back if you used that chainsaw to cut the funnel?
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GoNz0
you can claim a man point back if you used that chainsaw to cut the funnel?
band saw.. so half a man point?
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Originally Posted by
Knoxville
Gotta be honest, I'm a firm supporter of zip lock bags for random assortments or screws and bolts. You can even go the bagception, labled bags within bags route for vague sorting, which I tend to. Especially for the grab bag that lives in the bottom of my tool kit. Not that big Kenco jars of random fasteners don't make me feel a bit nostalgic...
oh that's a genius idea... you could even sort the screws through the poly bag.. until you get what you want.. AND they fit any box...
OK>. I'm doing that ....
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Get one of these; http://www.poundland.co.uk/toolbox-c...ment-organizer
I use one to sort my bits of miscellany. The adjustable compartments are handy, plus its a pound! IMO, its easier than rifling through bags and bags since you can see everything at once.
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AETAaAS
I'd need 100 of them.. and 20 hours to sort the screws into them ;)
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Oh gosh, I thought you just had the one jar. If you need 100 of these boxes, it's far beyond any amount of screws I have ever owned. :P
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over 20 jars... all full.....some new screws,.,, many bolts.. some nails... lots of washers... lots.....
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this thread needs more pictures..
here's how we used to (before they shut it down due to stupid reasons) organise stuff at shopmob.
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...326_161459.jpg
cardboard boxes, specifically ones from bulk buy potatoes, also some spare blue box recycling from somewhere :innocent:
that glideabout chair was especially useful, could carry 8 batteries no probs.
bonus shot of more storage stuff.
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...326_161505.jpg
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. :mrgreen:
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Zak33
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.
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heres the other storage solutions I have.
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...421_152206.jpg
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 :geek:
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? :mrgreen:
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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
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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.
