Rate my Rack - Show and Tell 🙂

Is that a butter knife?

Have you actually found a nut that can use that combo spanner thing that used to come with every Raleigh??

Yep. Butter knife. Good spot.

Raleigh tool has come handy for really narrow access on 15mm nut. It was last used on the eeb. Yamaha motor.

Nice rack!
I need to add a butter knife to mine.....

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Thanks for making me laugh, it looks almost as good as my father's attempt. You need more nescafe jars full of screws and/or bolts.

Jam jars. Lids screwed to the underneath of the shelf. 🙂

@the00
Good laugh, it aint that bad 😉

I think it might be... Multiple tools on one hook, similar tools spread all over, duplicates of some tools, but some clear deficiencies too 🤦‍♂️😂

Butter knife. Excellent. On holiday a couple or three years ago in a cottage in rural northern France with all sorts of odds and ends in the cellar we found a blancmange knife. Imagine a butter knife only longer and bendier. Weird.
I can only dream of tool racks so it looks good to me.

Or rather than a blancmange knife it could be one for grapefuits. When they're halved, the knife goes between the skin & fruit and is flexible to follow the curve.

@the00

There is a tool box as well, you know 🙂

I guess the deficiences are in there 🙂

So whats missing ?

Jam jars. Lids screwed to the underneath of the shelf.

Jam jars, lids lost, full of pens that don't work, flat batteries, an important part of something you don't own any more and a key that you'll only work out what its for after you eventually throw it away

The normal tool board logic is that the most used tools should be on the board, easy to see and grab when you need.

Of course that throws up a difficulty when you want to work away from the toolboard, for example a weekend away. At that point you either have to move the tools into a toolbox, or you have to invest in a second set of the most common tools.

It looks like you have the common tools, like hex keys, in your tool box, easy to grab and take with you. That is laudable. However it means that the toolboard has all the cast offs... All the tools too big for the toolbox, or the ones infrequently used for which you have no need carrying about all the time. That just means that the toolboard becomes a dusty dumping ground for the infrequently used tools, and the blunt instruments. These are not the tools you want to be presenting or storing like this. Really they need a different storage solution.

But everyone is different, so you do you.

Jam jars. Lids screwed to the underneath of the shelf. 🙂

I have these.

Everyone turns into their dad, don't they...?

Bag has main tools in so can be taken of shelf and put in camper or van. Plastic drawers are the same so can be moved across to vehicles.

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@tracey

Nice!

@the00

Looking forward to seeing yours 🙂

I'd love to share, but I've given up trying to post photos on here.

@the00, I was the same until yesterday when I decided to give it one last go. https://postimages.org/
This was simple even for a numpty like me, just choose the direct link option when sharing on here and boom! A photo arrives in your post

please ignore

@the00, I was the same until yesterday when I decided to give it one last go.> https://postimages.org/

Thanks. I get a security warning from that site. I will see if I have a photo I can stick on Insta.

So much jauntiness there should be a warning for OCD sufferers🤣

I've got a filling cabinet drawer for commonly used tools. A not exactly portable toolbox for cycle tools at opposite end of shed. Then various hooks and shelves strategically placed all over the shed. I know where everything is. Mostly.

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That was my initial set up when I moved in to my girlfriend's place last year. I've added a couple of items since then. The layout is done in a way I don't need to label anything, I just know that it progresses from grabby things, cutty things, sticky things, lengthy things, to hitty things.

I have a fully stocked toolbox that I use for weekends away, so these are mostly duplicates. Under the bench is a box of big tools. And a box for spares. And a box for oily rags. Consumables are on a shelf along the adjoining wall

I never put anything away after use, so I just have an ice cream tub full of tools sat on my workbench. I say "workbench", its just a knackered Workmate. Things are always falling down the gap in the middle.

No rack, just a roll.

https://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/mock-my-tool-roll-humblebag-brag/

I suspect when you come to use your Dunlop tyre repair kit you may find the glue has gone off...

@jca

I was waiting for someone to spot that 🙂

The tools inside are useful.

Hoping Henry Cole might make an offer 🙂