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If you are like me you probably have around 20 coffe cans containing an assortment of nuts bolt nail etc... Going through those cans to find something can be a pain until I rememberd a gadjet my father made he used a piece of plywood and some 1" by 1" to make a sorting tray with rails he left a corner open to allow for the items to be returned to the coffe cans in my case. It sure makes finding that small washer easier and faster.
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I have one of those two-sided tackle boxes with clear lids on both sides. It has 16 spaces on each side so each row is for a different diameter. It's simple to keep straight what goes where, finding stuff is a snap, and since I don't have a shop, it's easy to haul outside when I need a fastener.
I have a second one for all those screws, nails, picture hangers, hooks etc that are needed inside the home too.
~Paris
I have a second one for all those screws, nails, picture hangers, hooks etc that are needed inside the home too.
~Paris
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I have an old rubbermaid thing that a dishdrainer used to set on. It is flexible enough to just bend when dumping fasteners back in the can. I just moved out of my shop with a 15 year collection. Even with keeping standard bolts sorted and in bins I still had 30 coffee cans full. I like to keep the fasteners and small hardware when I part anything out so I have a few cans that are just ford ect. Did you ever try to go to the Lawson or Dorman assortment and try to find an intake manifold bolt? Too long or too short, always. Go to the can man!
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I heard the other day that Folgers coffee is going to stop using cans. What are we going to do? I have cans that my dad used.
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A little note the other day I had an idea and started to solder coffe can toghether I made two row of six 12 cans total makes a neat wall organizer I used regular electronic solder core and soldering iron. now I am able to see at a glance what is in there. As you may have guessed by now I am a pack rat if it looks decent I will pick it up and use it somehow if I cant use it it will eveantually make it's way to the recycle area.
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Shorebird, -Try peanut butter jars. Those big plastic jars are fairly good.
Use acid core solder for soldering things like tin cans. The acid flux cleans the metal better and gets a better joint. Just remember to wash it off afterward. Rosin flux will work but it does not clean off easily and it will corrode the metal also, it just takes longer to do it.
Use acid core solder for soldering things like tin cans. The acid flux cleans the metal better and gets a better joint. Just remember to wash it off afterward. Rosin flux will work but it does not clean off easily and it will corrode the metal also, it just takes longer to do it.
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My stuff is pretty well sorted but when it's time to fish something out, I dump the whole container into a shallow ten inch old teflon frying pan that the Mrs threw in the trash. It hangs by the side of my workbench.
Oh yeah, sometimes I give them a shot of WD-40 to hold down the rust.
Oh yeah, sometimes I give them a shot of WD-40 to hold down the rust.
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I have a friend who uses 5 gallon buckets. When he needs a bolt he just dumps it on the floor and never picks them up. He knows which basic area of the shop to dig around in if he needs a headbolt or something. His floor is about three inches deep in bolts. The rest of the place is even worse. I don't think he has put his tools away in years, they are just in piles where ever he used them last and the tool box drawers have been open forever with parts boxes stacked on them. I love going over there, it is like an archeological dig.
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I actually keep things pretty well sorted out. I have a small can that I toss odds and ends into and when it starts to get full, I grab a beer and sit down at the bench and start sorting.
I finally have a house with basement and garage and just love the fact that when I'm working on something I can just drag the roll around toolbox to where I'm at or go to a set of shelves and pretty much find whatever I need in the way of little odds and ends - springs, nuts, bolts, pieces of wood or plastic, etc.
I pretty much save scraps of everything and keep cutting it and making smaller stuff until about all that's left is shavings or sawdust. Last night I was able to grab a 1 inch square piece of pickup bed liner rubber and make an allen wrench holder for my table saw insert out it.
I finally have a house with basement and garage and just love the fact that when I'm working on something I can just drag the roll around toolbox to where I'm at or go to a set of shelves and pretty much find whatever I need in the way of little odds and ends - springs, nuts, bolts, pieces of wood or plastic, etc.
I pretty much save scraps of everything and keep cutting it and making smaller stuff until about all that's left is shavings or sawdust. Last night I was able to grab a 1 inch square piece of pickup bed liner rubber and make an allen wrench holder for my table saw insert out it.
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Here is a copy of Murphy's Law I know it holds thrue for me
1. Nothing is as easy as it looks.
2. Everything takes longer than you think.
3. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
4. If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong. Corollary: If there is a worse time for something to go wrong, it will happen then.
5. If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
6. If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.
7. Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
8. If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
9. Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
10. Mother nature is a bitch.
11. It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
12. Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.
13. Every solution breeds new problems
1. Nothing is as easy as it looks.
2. Everything takes longer than you think.
3. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
4. If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong. Corollary: If there is a worse time for something to go wrong, it will happen then.
5. If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
6. If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.
7. Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
8. If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
9. Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
10. Mother nature is a bitch.
11. It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
12. Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.
13. Every solution breeds new problems
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