In my workshop we have one pretty cool way of storing little, easy to lose parts like bolts, nuts, and washers. We have a board which is mounted to the wall length-wise and is protruding out from the wall at about a 45 degree angle (The top of the board is connected to the wall about 6 inches away from the wall itself). We have twist on jar lids screwed to this board with the jars full of the little bits screwed in. When we need something you just unscrew the jar, get the part and when you're done you find the matching lid to the jar and screw it back in. I've attached a picture to help understand, you can ignore the funny man ;)

Jim

-----Original Message----- From: veganboyjosh veganboyjosh@gmail.com To: The Think Tank thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Sent: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 22:14 Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] Good parts storage?

Derailer in Denver had at least one parts bin that was a repurposed "nail" bin donated from a local hardware store, i believe. like this one: http://www.generalsupply.tv/images/StorePics/BoltsEtc/NailBin.jpg

obviously they're built to handle some weight and still rotate.

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Gordon Hamachi gordon.hamachi@gmail.com wrote:

Some good ideas for bike storage are here: http://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/1221/diy-wooden-bike-rack-lookin...

On Jul 3, 2014 1:35 PM, DCoppley@intercitytransit.com wrote:

Hey bike folks,

I am trying to whip the bike and parts storage space for our program into shape. I scored some nice industrial shelving hand-me-downs, but I need smaller storage containers (boxes, crates, etc) to store parts in. I don’t particularly want to use plastic, as I’ve found most of it breaks. Does anyone have any good solutions for sturdy, stackable storage? Thanks for reading,

David

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