A few months ago, I happened to see a video by John Heisz on Youtube (Making The Coolest Small Parts Organizer - Woodworking) and wanted to build one for my endless array of fasteners and such. I couldn’t find any links to buy plans, so I just backed into the design by watching the video a few times.
A lot of it was woodoworking, a little 3D printing, but the all-important frames/dividers for the replaceable labels on each drawer front came from the Glowforge.
I wasn’t sure how I was going to stage it when finished, and finally decided to build two of them and mount them back to back. Gives me a total of 96 compartments.
Making them portable, so to speak, then presented a problem of how to lock the drawers in place when moving it around. Decided to use some lengths of piano hinge which are held closed by a 3D printed sliding latch I designed.
I’ve finally reached the fun stage of loading up the compartments. Been a long journey.
As I told a friend of mine, “I just don’t want to spend a half hour looking for a #8 lock washer that I just know I have.”
That turned out really great! There is also a “hardware storage bins” in the Free Designs section that was put in there by @fleckrj back in August of 2021. I’d link it, but I don’t know how. His drawers don’t flip out or have the carry ability like yours though, but it’s still very useful. Just so you know.
I always have a small magnet handy to lift hardware out of a bin and to keep the small escape-prone bits together instead of randomly seeking refuge in the furthest dark, dusty reaches under the workbench where the runaways seem to congregate. Non-magnetic hardware is still a challenge!
