Organization Methods

[JohnFogarty]

Hello everyone,

I've decided I should ask the community for general good practices and advice on keeping a well organized parts storage system, as well as tool storage system. As well as how to keep your shop in good shape throughout the season. You might think this is common sense sort of stuff, but you'd be surprised. 4901 and other team's I've been a part of have some trouble with it, no matter how I may have attempted to rectify it. (Mainly because I'm bad at it too.)

I've seen some amazingly clean pits and I'm sure that some people manage to keep their home shops in the same shape. For example I know for 4451 that's the case, but I also know their mentors and their facility better than most as well.

How do you do it? I saw some really cool things done by 254 at Championship and how it seemed they had a 1'x6" tub for different parts laid on their shelves in stacks based on components. I thought that maybe I could use that premise to begin upon, but I thought I'd ask around as see what else there is since I still have yet been to a competition in my 8 years where I get to visit with teams in depth.