POTD was keeping with the recent theme here, shop organization. I picked up a lot of end mills, spotting drills, center drills, taps, etc. from a shop that closed down in the Detroit area over 10 years ago. I had the cutters sorted by size and style and had them bagged in Ziploc's.
Made a cabinet this past summer to house stuff. The end mills went into Harbor Freight stackable bins with sheet metal pieces slipped into the card area to close off the fronts and give a spot for a label on top. The HF bins are fine, but their stacking feature is a PITA. They have pins/pegs on the bottoms that (poorly) align with the slots on the top. I had a drawer of taps that were housed in bins from Menards which have a better stacking feature. These have a ledge along the whole edge of the sides for much easier alignment for stacking. So, picked up a couple of bags of the red Menards bins at $0.59 each (plus the 11% discount) and swapped bins between the taps (on one level, not stacked) and the end mills (stacked two high).
Oh, the paper label taped to the sheet metal pieces denotes what's under the upper bin.
Bruce
Had my end mills in these stackable HF bins.
They were stacked two high in a drawer. Paper label
id's what's below.
HF bin stacking feature. Real pain to get the pins
aligned with the slots on the lower bin.
Menards (and probably others) stacking feature.
Works much better than the HF method.
End mills all swapped over. Much easier to pull
an upper bin to get to what's underneath, then
set the upper bin back down.
Taps now in the (non)stackable HF bins
