New Cabinets for Tooling

[brian Rupnow]

And here we are, with a second single full width drawer, which gives me seven more discreet places to store tooling---or "things". Why are the handles different than the first drawer?--Because I bought the last three the hardware store had in stock for the three top drawers. I'm really happy with this. I don't go into "cabinet maker phase" very often, but when I do, I'm generally pleased with the results.----Brian

[BCRider]

Drawers are always better than open shelves. I find that I can not only find things faster but I can typically hold more in a given volume because the drawers force the items to lay more compactly to each other. Plus grouped in smaller "piles" that are easier to sort through. Plus it avoids the major hazard of random piles where pulling one piece out results in dragging something else out and onto the floor or possibly onto our toes.

The drawers look great Brian. And clearly plans are afoot for even more such conversions. You're going to enjoy the positive fallout.

[lynnl]

Holy cow! Brian, you are one fast worker!
A 3:07 (CST) you posted you're considering another drawer, but would have to check your wood supply. Then at 3:09 you show us a picture of the completed job.

I'm amazed.

[brian Rupnow]

Lynnl---don't be that surprised. I designed the second drawer Saturday, bought the material and built and painted it Sunday, and put the handles on and installed the drawer today. That's all the carpenter work I have planned for now.---Brian

[sid pileski]

I was going to bust you about the non-matching handles, but then I went back and read the post.

Sid

[mickeyf]

I pitched out all the aluminum cut-offs

Lots of comments on this already of course. For me there is no such thing as a "too small" aluminum cut-off. Worst case it goes into the stuff-for-the-aluminum-foundry-that-I'll-get-around-to-some-day. Yes, I know much of it won't be the best type of Aluminum for casting, but I can use it to make learning mistakes on, and for non-critical things.

[reggie_obe]

I was going to bust you about the non-matching handles, but then I went back and read the post.

Sid

Matching handles to be made from Billet Al.

[Black Forest]

The problem now Brian is you have to make a SHELF to store the cut-off pieces of left over WOOD that you had to make Drawers to store the metal that was on the shelf. Seems to me you could have just watched a game on TV and been ahead of the game.

[brian Rupnow]

Yesterday I created a dedicated drawer for my new annular cutters and the tool that holds them. These cutters which range in size from 11/16" up to 1" are intended to take a lot of the load off of my milling machine when making larger holes.

[MattiJ]

Newton's unwritten law of physics: "Junk expands to fit the space available."

Every once in a while it's good to take an inventory of things, and an assessment of space. In both pictures the shop looks great. Well stocked with the necessities to occupy an active mind.

Second law of thermodynamics: "all spontaneous processes produce an increase in the entropy of the universe".
“A disordered room has greater entropy than an organized one. So, an organized room will tend to become disordered over time. The only way to reverse this is by continually putting in energy from an outside system (i.e. making the effort to clean your room regularly).”

[Tundra Twin Track]

Yesterday I created a dedicated drawer for my new annular cutters and the tool that holds them. These cutters which range in size from 11/16" up to 1" are intended to take a lot of the load off of my milling machine when making larger holes.

That’s looks great Brian,having used these cutters now are you happy how they perform.

[brian Rupnow]

I have only used one cutter one time, but it did seem to do the job very nicely.