At 10:36 AM 2/6/01 -0500, William M. Gilroy wrote:
>Currently I store my boxes of nuts and bolts in one of the drawers
>of my toolbox. It makes is a pain to find the correct item, then
>I have to open the box, get the pieces and then put it all back. I
>figure there has to be a better way. I was looking at the "Northern
I am using the same system and it works wonderfully. I bought my 40
bins from Harbor Freight for $7.99 last summer, of course that was just
the bins no bolts/nuts like the one at Northern. The hangers were however
flimsy little plastic pieces that fell apart as soon as you put in more
then 3 bolts or 5 nuts. I had some scrap flat steel in the garage and
welded up and a nice rack for them to hang one, the system works
wonderfully. I have a couple of bins for rusty bolts/nuts that still need
to be cleaned and the rest are for either new or cleaned up bolts/nuts. It
does require wall space but the time saving in always being able to find
the right size and not having to hunt it down in a box is worth the wall
space (assuming you get in the habit of putting the stuff in the bins first).
mike
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