What are you guys using for nut and bolt bins?

I keep buting plastic ones and my crew keeps destroying them...

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Plastic baby formula containers....

http://www.amazon.com/Stanley-Removable-Compartment-Professional-Organizer/dp/B001G1CUK0

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just throw all the nuts and bolts in one 5 gallon bucket. Make them dig.

Tom, what size range are you talking about? For smaller fasteners, it is really hard to beat tackle boxes like the ones that Joch linked to. You can have have each one designated to a certain dia, so the nuts and washers will work with anything in that tackle.
We take it one step further with the Formula car. Each subteam (suspension, drivetrain, engine, brakes, etc.) uses a rubber made tote, with all spares and specific fasteners in that bin. It makes it really easy when you need X part and you can tell your service crew exactly what bin it will be in.

The van came with a stack of drawers, 2-3" high each. I think it was a plumbing van. The drawers have three troughs, and came with a bunch of plastic dividers so you can split them up even more.

The only downside is they're always in the van.

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just throw all the nuts and bolts in one 5 gallon bucket. Make them dig.

Yeah! That's the way most shops do it and they in it for business, save valuable time sorting so with the 120/hr clock ticking makes perfect sense that guys rake thru bucks for 10 minutes for a 6 cent bolt!

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I have a couple of ZAG storage boxes that look like they come out of the same factory as those Stanley ones (mine are Hecho in Israel). I used them for screws and nails, they were used daily in a carpentry business for about five years, the owner gave them to me when he liquidated most of his tools and I've used them around the house since then. They are very nice, they take a beating, the individual removable bins are nice for when you just want to take out the GRK 10x3 1/8" screws out to work on the chicken coop.

They work great for carpentry fastener storage, so I imagine they'd also make nice car nut and bolt storage.

Around the house, I have a 4x8 wall of AkroBins. I would like to thank the fine folks at Danaher Precision for having some Kaisen Six Six Six Sigma meeting and determining the color red signified waste and in turn seeking to minimize waste by throwing out all their red bins (only to be rescued from the steps next to the Dumpster by one of their engineers and then given to me..I'm not sure why about 30% of my bins are blue, but the price was right and I don't ask questions regarding free stuff).

Bigger stuff for the LeMons car (why am I here? I'm out of rally until it implodes and you can run on a LeMons budget) goes in Rubbermaid or [probably stealthily acquired] retail big box store plastic bins that were again headed for the Dumpster. Drug stores are notorious for tossing these bins after one use...yet they have Property of (national drug store chain) embossed all over them. I guess when you're shipping Oxycontin and Viagra, the profit margins allow the bins to go straight to landfill.

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Andrew Steere
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alkun
just throw all the nuts and bolts in one 5 gallon bucket. Make them dig.

Yeah! That's the way most shops do it and they in it for business, save valuable time sorting so with the 120/hr clock ticking makes perfect sense that guys rake thru bucks for 10 minutes for a 6 cent bolt!

John, you used to be an advocate of the five gallon jug of bolts going to the electroplating shop! Pretty sure you had 50 or 60 gallons of them stashed in crates to go back to Sleazattle!!!

I kid, I kid.

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Andrew Steere
Lyndeborough, NH
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Yeah, we used to have those big folgers coffee cans filled with bolts sorted by metric or US.

Now we have smaller folgers coffee cans sorted by size and type... sort of. For anything important, they're in plastic divider shelf things. With the pull out drawers.

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http://www.amazon.com/Stanley-Removable-Compartment-Professional-Organizer/dp/B001G1CUK0

I use something similar. I am not sure if the bin are removable so it might be shallower.

For longer stuff I use one of these. The dividers are removable so you have a bolt that is the entire length of the box.

http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3997779&gsidynamic=GooglePLA-_-TACKLE-_-TACKLE-_-SKU-7239431&camp=CSE:GooglePLA:3997779:7239431:TACKLE-

I also carry some plastic baggies with a full bolt set for different sections of the car. Like a full rear suspension bolt sent, front suspension, etc. The baggies are labeled and in a shallow box so they can be found easier. The bags fail from time to time and need to be replaced

I use these from Harbor Freight. Between the 8 bin for large bolts/nuts and the small bin for random other small bits. I also use them to sort my electrical "bucket" into a nice organized bin. Right now I haven't sorted them by thread pitch yet, so need to work on that.

If you wait on them, they go on sale quite often for half off.


http://www.harborfreight.com/hand-tools/bins-containers/19-bin-portable-parts-storage-case-93928.html



http://www.harborfreight.com/hand-tools/bins-containers/8-bin-portable-parts-storage-case-93927.html

I didn't even think about harbor freight.....

I was using tuperware containers for a while but they were cracking and breaking. I finally got a decent stanley box and sorted everything out.....then somebody leaves the box on the trailer and the box drops off the trailer on a stage road. Luckily sweep picked it up, but not before the box broke and my day of sorting went out the window!

I suppose HF to the rescue again; now to see if I can get these brutes to keep the boxes in the truck...

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Fastenall. I use the metal latching hardware cases, they have them in many configurations, and they are about $30 each.

http://www.fastenal.com/web/products/details/63005?searchMode=productSearch&rfqXref=&rfqKeyword=&rfqId=&rfqLineId=

We have the things Sean linked to, 4-6 of them in a slide out drawer thing. I only put new stuff in that though, all used stuff I put in drawers, I have a system, it just is non-linear so no one but me understands it.

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