Hardware storage and organization

[Dick Linn]

Our team uses the plastic bins we get each year. We have a platform on wheels that can carry 8 or 10 bins, and we wheel this from the storage closet to the shop room. The closet also has shelves and we can get used cardboard document storage boxes for free.

[Ben Martin]

We have several rooms- one with all the machines, one full of sheet metal and tools, and one for electronics.

We store tools of similar types together in pull-out drawers or on shelves. Similar building materials are also stored together.

[ebmonon36]

Our team has some of those grey bins. We use them to store our non-robot bolts. They work well for that.

We have a large chest of drawers that are about 2 feet wide and 2 inches deep that we use for storing fasteners. We got it from a dentist's office. I spent a couple days this summer organizing it such that each drawer is a different thread size and all of the screws are organized in columns by head type and in rows by size. We also then have our road totes that we can take a little bit of each fastener in and the totes all slide into a nice small box for ease of carying.
Spare parts are stored in a cabinet of plastic drawers. They are currently sorted such that 1 or 2 types of motors each have a drawer, electrical hardware has a drawer, wire has 3 drawers depending on gauge. Its still kind of a mess, but it is getting better.
The metal stock has yet to be stored efficeintly, but we are working on that too .

Eric

[Nitroxextreme]

Originally Posted by ebmonon36

Our team has some of those grey bins. We use them to store our non-robot bolts. They work well for that.

We have a large chest of drawers that are about 2 feet wide and 2 inches deep that we use for storing fasteners. We got it from a dentist's office. I spent a couple days this summer organizing it such that each drawer is a different thread size and all of the screws are organized in columns by head type and in rows by size. We also then have our road totes that we can take a little bit of each fastener in and the totes all slide into a nice small box for ease of carying.
Spare parts are stored in a cabinet of plastic drawers. They are currently sorted such that 1 or 2 types of motors each have a drawer, electrical hardware has a drawer, wire has 3 drawers depending on gauge. Its still kind of a mess, but it is getting better.
The metal stock has yet to be stored efficeintly, but we are working on that too .

Eric

Just have to make sure that no one knocks any of those things down. We had a problem when our recently organized draws got pushed over.