ingenious workshop solutions?

[CornishPete]

Seem to recall someone posting a picture of their workbench with a pillar drill and saw table recessed in it that looked like a good idea.

 

[addjunkie]

These work well in tool box drawers

 

[lornemalvo]

I've got several of them, they are all right but the shelves sag over time.

They come with mdf shelves, which are useless. I replaced mine with chipboard, the cheapest source of which was the loft boards they sell in packs, cut to size

 

[bigegg]

View attachment 154721 These work well in tool box drawers

I was looking at a pile of those (in plastic, but flat sided) at the car boot sale.
was thinking of making a cabinet with runners to make some tool drawers with them.
good for drill bits, punches, repousse chisels, screwdrivers, scrapers.

 

[bigegg]

I think I've posted these before:

use a magnetic door catch to hold a pin punch to a tool board.

cut your power tool cables really short, and fit a commando plug. then use an extension cable of the size you need. makes them less attractive to "borrowers", and less chance of them unplugging half way up a ladder.

get some 6mm neodymium magnets off the bay - about 20 for a fiver - epoxy one into your hex-bit adaptor, and you'll never lose a bit again and it'll hold screws securely on the end

 

[Olderisbetter]

Seem to recall someone posting a picture of their workbench with a pillar drill and saw table recessed in it that looked like a good idea.

I posted my one of my chop saw a while back recessed into the bench, it just made it easy to cut timber in long runs and the bench folds away if i need more space for a car

 

[Tangledfeet]

Drum roll please... brace yourselves;

 

[Ashley Burton]

@Olderisbetter & @Tangledfeet great ideas guys!

 

[angellonewolf]

Drum roll please... brace yourselves;

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Your lacking I got 4 grinders now I sure 1 person on here got 7

 

[bigegg]

Your lacking I got 4 grinders now I sure 1 person on here got 7

I've counted mine today:
6off 4.5":
three Aldi corded
a Screwfix titan
a Lidl air powered.
another unknown make air powered.

2x air powered 3" grinder/cut off - one straight, one right angle.

2x 9":
a kinzo cheapie I use for stone work.
a draper soft start.

I don't have a problem.
at least, not any that can be fixed with an angle grinder.

 

[Tangledfeet]

Your lacking I got 4 grinders now I sure 1 person on here got 7

Only those two hanging up, shameful I know!!! I do have one of the recent Aldi special buy grinders still in its box elsewhere...

 

[MattF]

I've counted mine today:
6off 4.5":
three Aldi corded
a Screwfix titan
a Lidl air powered.
another unknown make air powered.

2x air powered 3" grinder/cut off - one straight, one right angle.

2x 9":
a kinzo cheapie I use for stone work.
a draper soft start.

I don't have a problem.
at least, not any that can be fixed with an angle grinder.

Folk get on about vices & I ....

 

[bigegg]

Folk get on about vices & I ....

I'm currently cataloguing vices:

I eat too much.
I like the odd glass of rum.
but, I only gamble with exmrsegg's patience.
and the only smoking I do is when I'm welding too close to my jumper.


oh...
you mean "vises"


I'm cataloguing them, too:

I know I've got a somsonia perfect j
a couple of smaller (good make, old) engineering ones.

three or four woodworking vises: a record 52 1/2, a Woden, acouple of smaller ones.

a couple of Stanley clamp ons.

I also have three or four (possibly) "apprentice pieces".

a very large leg vise, and two pipe vises: one that fastens to a bench, and one on legs.

and two b&d workmates

I have a "moxon" style twin thread on my "to finish" project list.

I sold the saw sharpening vise I had...


that's so far...


.

 

[Gareth J]

I asked similar a while ago - some good suggestions

https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/space-saving-tricks-ideas.72924/

 

[MattF]

Vices. We're English old chap.

 

[bigegg]

regarding drill bit storage.

last place I worked had short lengths of pvc waste pipe glued together to make a "honeycomb" for different size bits.



could also be screwed under a shelf (horizontally) to hold drills



glue/screw short lengths (rings I suppose) to a board to hold hammers/pliers.



or as a screwdriver/chisel rack

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I know I've got a somsonia perfect j
a couple of smaller (good make, old) engineering ones.

three or four woodworking vises: a record 52 1/2, a Woden, acouple of smaller ones.

a couple of Stanley clamp ons.

I also have three or four (possibly) "apprentice pieces".

a very large leg vise, and two pipe vises: one that fastens to a bench, and one on legs.

and two b&d workmates

I have a "moxon" style twin thread on my "to finish" project list.

I sold the saw sharpening vise I had...

What you have, is a problem.....

 

[slim_boy_fat]

regarding drill bit storage.

last place I worked had short lengths of pvc waste pipe glued together to make a "honeycomb" for different size bits.

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could also be screwed under a shelf (horizontally) to hold drills

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glue/screw short lengths (rings I suppose) to a board to hold hammers/pliers.

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or as a screwdriver/chisel rack

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Now those I like!

 

[8ob]

I suppose I had better throw this liddle invenshun into the mix. Its a mag mounted angle grinder rest that you can slap on anything reasonably flat, really useful working off a ladder or plant outside where you dont want to be tripping over the thing or rolling it in mud. Knocked one up and have played about with various magnets and designs , bolted two magnets back to back on the lower fixing for the peg spanner. Takes some tugging to get them unstuck so no chance of the grinder just falling, have ended up making them for everyone that sees it so thought I had better get a few laser cut and start knocking them out.

 

[Tangledfeet]

@8ob That is genius! You should sell them... let me know how much! ;-)