Harbor Freight Bin Rack

I have a million screws, bolts etc. These bins are about as cheap as they get! Found this on Printables and went to town. [edit: Updated link for the one I actually used: ] https://makerworld.com/en/models/1895043-the-ultimate-harbor-freight-sortimo-rack-cabinet

Drilling the holes for the drawer slides was magic and felt like cheating! Came together with ease. I put it on a HF furniture dolly for casters, for now

I’ve since added a top “shelf” and the next one will probably be just square so it’s easier to stack. The carry handles are definitely needed, this thing gets heavy fast!

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I like it, nice project.

Bonus, I had no idea how nice the HF bins are, they look pretty close to a gridfinity system.

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I like the HF bins, but I like the Bauer organizers too. Unfortunately, they don’t make a bin set like what you made.

Imagine if this:

Instead had drawers of bins.

One of these days I need to start knocking my own versions of these out. Including one with a rack mount ear set, and one with integrated power distribution.

Love the work done to make that bin set of drawers.

Your Bauer set was real nice!

There are different parts I like about all the systems.

The ToughStacks have nice metal side rails and a cooler(!) you can pair with them.

The Rigid ones have nicer drawers.

The Milwaukee PackOuts are really nice but way expensive.

A few of the Kobalt and DeWalt boxes have some nice features.

They’re all wildly incompatible. I might start making cross-brand adapters also.

It’s really nice to have everything you need for a job or a show all in one set of boxes and just roll in with them.

There are a ton of files you can print for the HF organizers on printables/makerworld as well.

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I definitely say the HF bins aren’t nearly as nice as the expensive ones, but they do the job for under $10 apiece! Also, I filled all 6 drawers pretty quick and am definitely going to make at least 2 more of these… man I have a lot of stuff!

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Added another rack, this one is just square. But the top one makes a nice laptop stand! I totally meant to make the long carry handle slots for laptop cables!

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And if Harbor Freight is a bit rich for your tastes… I present a scrap plywood Dollar Tree ($1.50 tree these days?) bin rack “sidekick!”

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I spent hours trying to figure out which gridfinity set of grids I should print, and then customizing the text of the bin labels to match my screws, and then 9.5 hours to print the bins for just M2 and M3 items… I said screw it and went to HF, spent like $15 on bins and was done and organized in an hour or two lol.

this thread is fantastic, great work and thanks for sharing @coinbird!

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I made something like this a couple of years ago. I should call it the “action” rack according to the topic title.

My oh my, my workspace floor was still empty back then…..

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