[How do I?] How do you store SMALL PARTS in your shop?

[HMF]

Small parts get lost, and often can't be replaced, or, it holds up projects to have to replace them. So we need a way to store them. Here are a few of mine. I store lathe stuff in plastic coffee cans because they cannot rust like their metal counterparts.



In my clock shop I use the Acro Mills cases with various size drawers.



What do you guys use to store small parts?

 

[GaryK]

I use these:



I picked them up at Atwoods for $10 each. Work great. The covers keep out all the dirt.

You can either hang them up like i did or they will stand by themselves.

 

[Rick Leslie]

I use various plastic containers in different sizes depending on the parts. I have found that perscription med bottles are great for storing small pins, clips and such. Sorry, no pics.

 

[xalky]

A variety of ways. Pictures below.

Hose Clamps, pins, beaqrings, blades, sharpening stones etc.. To the right, nuts and bolts and machine screws

Mostly misc general hardware

Parrallels, end mills, Drills, Large drills

For small electrical terminals

 

[firefite]

This is my small parts storage, the old way.

 

[xalky]

I Love those metal drawers. I especially like all the brass you have up on that top shelf. That brass is getting real hard to find and it aint cheap. I remember when I was younger, everybody around here had some brass in there work shop, probably because of all the brass mills that were in this area at the time. Shoot, 1/2 the city worked in the brass mills 20-30 yrs ago. Waterbury, where i grew up, was "The Brass Capitol of The World" back then. Just about every artillery shell that was fired since World War 2 came out of waterbury. What a shame... all the brass mills got replaced by shopping malls and low income housing.

 

[Rick Leslie]

I would like to point out that all the shops pictured are far too neat and orderly. I would never find anything that way. I cleaned my shop once. Looked for my Ruger barrels for 3 weeks after that! :rofl: