Organize Your Tool Holders in Old Filing Cabinets

Oct 23, 2011 // by page.lysupportadmin // Blog, Projects, Techniques // No Comments

Loved this tip from Rosie’s Shack over on PM:

File cabinets for tool holders

Use old filing cabinets to organize tool holders…

Track down some old filing cabinets at auctions, Craigslist, or wherever and you have a ready made way to organize your tool holders. Add some free software from Tool Wall (it’s free for the first 160 tools) and you’ve added a lot of organization. I haven’t played with the Tool Wall software yet, but I’ve heard good things from various sources. I need to up my own tooling organization as I’ve blown past the capacity of my table top rack by about 2-3x since I built it.

Once you get used to tool presetting and build up a fair collection of holders, it’s nice to have as many tools as possible all set up and ready to go. A few filing cabinets will take care of a lot of holders and you can label each drawer appropriately:

- Indexable Tools

- Twist Drills

- Inch Endmills

- Metric Endmills

- etc.

Give it a shot. Every shop needs a little extra organization.