Hardware storage and organization

[Cory]

How do teams store their spart parts and such at competitions?

We've use tackleboxes in the past for bolts, shaft collars, bearings, pneumatic fittings, etc. We've always had problems with the lids breaking off, among other things.

We tend to put small spare parts in little plastic tubs, or just dump everything into KOP bins.

This year we're trying to find a better way to do things. We've currently got a doublesided clear (clear makes things so much easier) tacklebox with nice solid latches on it that we keep all our most common small fasteners, snaprings, molex connectors, quick disconnect terminals, etc in.

We're looking at buying some nice steel tackleboxes from McMaster that will never fall apart for small stuff, but we've still not found a good way to store big things like motors, electronics parts, spare robot parts, etc.

Right now we're looking at buying a rolling toolchest that'll fit into an unused space in the middle of our toolcrate that we could organize all our larger spare parts in.

Anyone do anything that they think works well that hasn't been mentioned yet?