I'm nuts about clever boxes, but lack any affinity whatever for carpentry. It would be great if I had an acquaintance who would make a sorting box like this one, a one-off that apparently he didn't put into production.
To work at all, it would have to be installed at a tilt, otherwise only the first two drawers would be useful. I'm not even sure the tilt would work all that well.
I would assume that the vertical dividers just hang there, dadoed and glued to the top, and the drawers pull out all the way as needed. At least that is the way I would build it.
The partitions need to be much closer together, squeezed toward the left. Too much wasted space, resulting in nuts, washers & bolts getting short shrift with tiny drawers (these would be the 3 that I use the most - threaded fasteners being much more costly and worthy of salvage/reuse accordingly).
wood and sheet metal screws- Flat head, oval head, pan head,truss head, #4,6,8,10,12,14, Phillips, square drive,slotted , torx. Steel, stainless steel, brass. 1/2",5/8",3/4",1"up to about 4".
Machine screws we don't even want to go here.
The trick to screw storage by ones and twos is either- don't, or keep a "hell box". The hellbox is not something one digs into from the top- empty it on a smooth tabletop, spread the screws around to scan them, slowly funnel them back into the container by sweeping them off the table back into the box. This procedure allows a quick separation of obviously extraneous screws, leads to a drinking problem, and violates the laws of chance, because no matter how many screws you need, you will always be one short.
Boxes- I just inherited a nice machine tool from a friend- one of the parts to it is in a nice maple box with a dovetailed sliding cover- not fancy, protective, and simple, and beautiful- every time I see it, it speaks of his personality and quality. He was one of the few. Sometimes in life you meet someone who was a privilege to know. Someone who would have your back no matter what, and not be afraid to chew your ass if needed.
I used to have a five gallon bucket that I threw extraneous screws and fasteners into. Pretty soon, it became too much and I ended up throwing out about five or six years worth of screws and other junk. Hell, I'm still finding hardware from twenty years ago.
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Woodworking is my hobby. I was a carpenter for 40+ years until retirement a little over a year or so ago.
To work at all, it would have to be installed at a tilt, otherwise only the first two drawers would be useful. I'm not even sure the tilt would work all that well.
Looks like an Adam Savage project.
Yes on the tilted drawer enhancement.
Excellent. Picking up the box and shaking it to the right of the photograph before opening the drawers would work.
I would assume that the vertical dividers just hang there, dadoed and glued to the top, and the drawers pull out all the way as needed. At least that is the way I would build it.
The partitions need to be much closer together, squeezed toward the left. Too much wasted space, resulting in nuts, washers & bolts getting short shrift with tiny drawers (these would be the 3 that I use the most - threaded fasteners being much more costly and worthy of salvage/reuse accordingly).
I think the "shaking" isn't optional. Mr Murphy makes bolts stand up to block the drawers from opening.
wood and sheet metal screws-
Flat head, oval head, pan head,truss head, #4,6,8,10,12,14, Phillips, square drive,slotted , torx. Steel, stainless steel, brass. 1/2",5/8",3/4",1"up to about 4".
Machine screws
we don't even want to go here.
The trick to screw storage by ones and twos is either- don't, or keep a "hell box".
The hellbox is not something one digs into from the top- empty it on a smooth tabletop, spread the screws around to scan them, slowly funnel them back into the container by sweeping them off the table back into the box.
This procedure allows a quick separation of obviously extraneous screws, leads to a drinking problem, and violates the laws of chance, because no matter how many screws you need, you will always be one short.
Boxes- I just inherited a nice machine tool from a friend- one of the parts to it is in a nice maple box with a dovetailed sliding cover- not fancy, protective, and simple, and beautiful- every time I see it, it speaks of his personality and quality. He was one of the few. Sometimes in life you meet someone who was a privilege to know. Someone who would have your back no matter what, and not be afraid to chew your ass if needed.
I used to have a five gallon bucket that I threw extraneous screws and fasteners into. Pretty soon, it became too much and I ended up throwing out about five or six years worth of screws and other junk. Hell, I'm still finding hardware from twenty years ago.
He could have adjusted the depth of the drawers so that they had a more equal volume. Instead of a straight diagonal there would have been a curve.
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