ThriftyFun News - April 29, 2005 - Organizing Your Workshop
ThriftyFun News
Organizing Your Workshop
Volume Seven, Number 18 April 29, 2005
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This newsletter contains:
- A Peg Board To Organize a Workshop
- Saw Blades in Record Album Covers
- Looking Through Small Items
- Storing Paint Cans
- Hanging Tools
- Avoiding Workbench Clutter
- Storing Items In Baby Food Jars
- For Safety - Keep A Neat Shop
- Storing Sandpaper
- Organizing Extension Cords and Other Wires
- Twist Ties and Rubber Bands
- Storage for Brooms and Mops
- Organize Tools With Fishing Tackle Boxes
- Attach Jars to Your Shelves
- Saw Dust Gutter for Your Workshop
- Save Manuals For Tools and Appliances
- Freezer Containers For The Workshop
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Organizing Your Workshop
A Peg Board To Organize a Workshop
The best way to organize a workshop is to use a peg board. After you hang an item on the peg board, draw a line around it, that way you won't have to guess what goes where once everything has a place. We also keep screws and such in baby food jars, we nail the jar lids to the wall. It's a real space saver.
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Saw Blades in Record Album Covers
A good place to store saw blades is in unwanted record album covers. If you don't have any record albums just visit garage sales on Sunday when people are closing down their sale. You likely find someone will to give away some records.
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When looking for a small nail, screw, button. pin, etc, in your can or jar of misfits and/or left-overs, be sure to dump them on newspaper, typing paper, or magazine. When finished, just lift, form in a "vee" and pour back in can or jar. Beats picking them up a few at a time.
By Andrew Caldarelli
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Before storing paint, put some paint on the top and side of the can so you can easily see what color it is. If the can is almost empty, transfer it to a smaller container since paint cans take up a lot of shelf space. If you may want to try to recreate the color in the future, write the color information on a piece of paper and tape it to the side of the paint can.
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If you enough wall space, hang shovels and other garden tools upside down on your walls. For smaller tools you can get a peg board that you can mount on your wall and fit with a variety of pegs and hooks and store tools that you need to have handy.
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Keep a garbage can right by your workbench to keep debris from cluttering up your work area. If you have more than one work area put a trash can next to each. Try to find convenient place to store items like safety goggles so that they are near where you used them the most, hanging them on the gall by your table saw for example. Keep a small hand broom near your work bench to sweep debris into a garbage can.
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Storing Items In Baby Food Jars
Baby food jars are great for storing small nails, screws and other items so that they are easy to see. You can put the jars in a old spice race to keep them together. You can also attach the metal lids to the underside of a shelf, the jars can then hang from the shelf and be seen easily.
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A cluttered, sawdust-filled shop encourages accidents. Keep the floor around machines clear of obstructions that could trip you at a vulnerable moment. Sweep up sawdust as necessary. It may make your shop floor slippery, just as sand does on a shuffleboard table.
By joesgirl
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Store your sandpaper in a three ring binder. Just uses some pocket folders to keep the sandpaper organized by different grits in the binder. Label the binding of the three ring binder "Sandpaper" so that it's easy to see when sitting on shelf.
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Organizing Extension Cords and Other Wires
Tips for preventing extra cords and wires from becoming a tangled mess. Post your ideas.
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Twist ties work well for wrapping up power tool cords and keeping wires together. Rubber bands also have a variety of uses and are good to keep handy. Take an old bike inner tube and cut it into rings to make some heavy duty rubber bands.
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Brooms and mops left standing on their bristles or heads wear out sooner. It is worth the investment to buy a plastic hanging storage piece for them.
By Robin
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Organize Tools With Fishing Tackle Boxes
Fishing tackle boxes work great for keeping small power tools and their accessories and bits organized. Whenever I see fishing tackle box at a garage sale or rummage sale I grab it. You can uses stencils and spray paint to label the outside of the box.
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When you have loads of small things to store in your shed or workshop, such as nails, screws, etc, here's a cool tip:
Save jam jars and screw the lids to the underside of your workshop shelves. You can see what is in the jars and screw/unscrew the jar of your choice. Just make sure your shelf is secure and sturdy enough to take the extra weight.
By chickybiker
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Saw Dust Gutter for Your Workshop
A good use for old gutters, either wood or metal, is a debris gutter for the side of you work bench. Just attach it to the side of your work bench so that you can sweep debris and saw dust into it. You can have it at an angle so that it drains into a garbage can. Pretty nifty!
By LS
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Save Manuals For Tools and Appliances
Operator's manuals are valuable. They tell how to safely use an appliance or tool, where to get it repaired, and often how to make adjustments or repairs yourself. They also enhance the value of an item if you eventually decide to sell it. But these manuals tend to disappear, in the shop or in the bottoms of drawers. Place them in a folder and tuck the folder in the home files. In the workshop, manuals can be hung on a nail near the tool they pertain to.
By joesgirl
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Freezer Containers For The Workshop
The transparent Glad-Ware Soup/Salad containers make excellent storage boxes for anything from buttons to screws or staples or nails. They have a solid lip around the top, and they slide like drawers if you use the louvered panels from the backs of old fridges as dividing walls between stacks of them.
You can of course make the side and dividing walls from wood or a couple of layers of strong cardboard and just cut grooves into them for the container lips to slide in. That way you can take one container from the bottom without knocking the whole stack over.
Those Soup/Salad containers are about $2 for five and are quite durable, as long as you don't step on them.
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