I know people like Gridfinity, but it doesn’t really fit how I work. I have piles of stuff and I need boxes that close, rather than open bins that can spill.
The translucent boxes that come when I buy Dupont connectors or cheap M3 screws from Amazon seem okay at first, but they are awful at keeping items separated. When closed, the lid leaves a large gap above the inner walls, and the removable separator tabs are easily bumped and suddenly two bins are mixed together. UGH.
I designed a box where the top of each wall has a little extension and there is a matching groove in the lid that is just a bit wider. Even if the lid is not completely flat or if it flexes from being tossed around, I can 100% depend on the parts to stay in the correct bin.
I’ve been looking at things all wrong!!
As if my solution to the needing to dig through the stack was build a set of really low height shelves, instead of rotating.
I am surprised at how common this line of thinking is. Although it’s a natural consequence if you can’t trust the subdivisions to keep parts in the correct bin. Then the only solution is a greater amount of horizontal area.
A mix of vertical/rotated containers would be nice to reduce number of horizontal shelves needed. Cheap easy closing box(es) that can store Jamie’s gridfinity containers and rotated any angle would be neat (like Milwaukee pack out and others). Am not content with high-cost/low-density of using horizontal shelves I use to make things accessible…
Who else would you embarrass him in front of? I mean, we know his family probably isn’t here… Very few of us have that level of familial support (and if we do, the embarrassment is doubly deserved/expected/tolerated).
I went with bigger bins. Then I tossed out the removable buckets from one of them and put the little plastic containers that the amazon multi-pack bolts came in into the same bin.
I like to have them horizontal because I don’t always put the bins back where they go. I don’t label the bins because their contents can sometimes be adjusted as I run out of one size bolt and get something else the next time I do a project. Having the bins horizontal, I can pull it out halfway, see what’s in it, and then slide it back in if it’s the wrong bucket.
