hey gang we're here and I'm shop to talk about this yes we talked about on the
podcast a few weeks ago people wanted some more information about this yes
again part of its one of the two things one is I have talked about this before
in relation to the tool boxes my ilm tool boxes which the posters up now for
the promo but I came up with a process which I refer to as first order retrieve
ability which is that I like my shop to operate so they don't want to move
anything out of the way to get to other things so when you need to go get a
battery for a cordless cordless you appliance it's just right there you
reach out grab it you know there's a bigger arms not in a box it's not now I
do have my sword of Moe's but that's different because that's smaller
materials and things like they're consumables yes but then there's also
the tool stacks and these are craftsman tool stacks and I tend to find that as
we said on the podcast drawers are where things go to die drawers are evil yeah
tool boxes drawers you put stuff in there something else gets on top of them
and then you never see it again or in the case of drawers it goes back to the
back of the thing and it's just gone and and there are exceptions to this if you
have a racing truck where you you know upkeep the engine and the parts of a
race car you know what tools you need so you can laser cut and foam everything
you need but this my shop is a moving target I can't quite laser cut
everything that needs to go in place it doesn't have six or eight coping saws
right so in the end I decided I called it in the hell with drawers and we
called it the F George George yes you have and I started thinking I would like
all of my pliers nippers grabbers Clippers scissors and it's like a rivet
gun down there it looks like no actually I'll go through some get more esoteric
tools here at a bit but I I started out by laying all of my drawers full of
these out on my tables and sort of taking a look at them for a couple of
weeks then I started taking some of these hardwood slats I had and drilling
holes to fit these in and started to figure out how many I could get and I
realized I could support them all on this triangular sort of angled stand
and have sort of like stadium seating access to everything that I would view
is on a figure out of tools yeah and then I put a sorter up on top for all
the stuff that that doesn't have an easily identifiable place plastic fork
you know I grabbed these plastic forks from a catering thing because I actually
really like that gunmetal chrome and yeah they're little but they chose
plastic chroming that they did one that was really nice so I just wanted that
that was for reference so when you were pulling out tools let's start at the
beginning yeah pulling out tools did you kind of look at the stuff to use most
frequently is that what you're thinking about or mostly it was sorting by
category I wanted to try and get as many things into this as possible so
obviously needlenose pliers these are not a high use item for me but
when I need them and when I need a certain kind I need it right and sorting
through a drawer full of diesels like I can't see where anything is right now
everything has its place and it's like I reach out and I know whether I need the
the serrated grabbers or the straight job right or those long the super long
or the these things bad guys that idea that soldering um you know I use these
Clippers nine pecks cutters these are fantastic and cut piano wire all day
long with these in each one supplies a different use for a different type of
thing that I'm cutting and I use these constantly these are really really
usually new you literally use them for all sorts of things including maybe
things that they've not necessarily designed for oh I have yet to find the
thing that these snipe X Clippers aren't designed for they'll cut through
freaking it okay I have a amazing pair of pliers here this Wow a medical ortho
scopic stapler Wow titanium jaws when you pull the handle they they staple but
here give me your fingernail get a little else no I'm not so I'll show you
if I put my fingernail in here and I grab it I actually Wow I can't let go I
can't let go I can't tell you how many times this is saved my butt I use this
maybe once a year for threading through something grabbing it and pulling it
back out oh yeah all right this imagine like you need to hold a screw someplace
to get it driven in it's perfect for that that's amazing this
is a wonderful wonderful piece of hardware that I've had for years
actually one of the designers of one of the early Lucasfilm designers Neto Melo
rotas Romero his wife is an operating room nurse for surgery surgery she gave
me that this is like medical tools I love dental tools in general like the
scrapers and the mirrors and all that stuff
incredibly useful when you're working in small spaces very very very actually I
also have a whole drawer full of sculpting tools that's that is fine
because of the way that I use those it's fine for those to go into a drawer I
have some cool scissors here this is actually this is the exact make and
model of scissors taken with the Apollo astronauts as part of their medical kit
Wow which is funny to me because it was how heavy it is yeah they're pretty yeah
you'd think you'd go with the lemon I'm wondering when it's when it's $500 per
ounce or whatever it was you need scissors though yeah I think it's good
you know they're they're they're safe edge so you can cut up against the cloth
right exactly exactly now I also realized I had all this extra space so I
put my balls and my gift pen wrench there nice I've got some vice grips your
clamps down tub of ice more vice grips on the side and clamps now on the back
well I most frequently used items cyanoacrylate glue yeah and the kicker
plus all blades exacto blades and stuff in this we haven't talked about the
kicker and I don't think a lot of people don't I don't think a lot of people
don't know about this serious we might have talked about it off and on but it's
worth mentioning again okay um it's called in sassette
it's called yeah and it's a it's effectively an instant set for
cyanoacrylate glue so if I take cyanoacrylate glue and I glue that and
you spray that right there okay so we just let that send for probably 15 or 20
seconds and you can do something similar with baking soda is that right yeah
baking soda is actually my preferred because it provides a little oh oh go
ahead yep okay okay smells nice too yeah there
are some model makers I know who can't stand that smell now this is a lot of
leverage to put on the crazy glue but it
come on come on there you go look at that yeah so it instantly sets Krazy
Glue now I use baking soda as well there are people who don't like the smell of
this solvent and that's totally reasonable because while it's a little
bit sweet its cloying yeah baking soda also instantly kicks cyanoacrylate glue
but it adds material so i've used it extensively in styrene and cyanoacrylate
construction as gusset oh so if you want to have like a little bit of a panicle
yeah mechanical edge and can to help with something that needs a little more
strength for long throws or something like that
and then on the bottom here and you buy glue in bulk because it dries up it does
I used to buy the big bottles of CA glue and that's a terrible way to buy it
almost no one uses enough of it fast enough to justify the two and three and
four ounce bottle size so I buy it in the smallest bottles I can
weirdly hard to find on Amazon it's often sold for fly-tying
right and these quarter ounce bottles is this quarter ounce
yeah half ounce those are lovely size and they have a nice applicator tip
quarter ounce is my favorite yeah that is because again yeah it's a single-use
it's not really gotta last me for a couple of weeks right but it won't dry
out and then on the bottom this comes from coming on
I wanted a renewable power source for the recirculate er for my cooling suit
in the 2001 suits so I went with these Makeda lithium ion 12-volt batteries and
that meant in order to make the suits work I had to buy a couple of cheap
Makita drills and cut off the receiver for the battery when I ordered this
because it's not that expensive there are a hundred bucks for an impact driver
and a drill and two batteries yeah charger I I like the system so much I
ended up investing in the full system I came over here and used them and I ended
up buying the exact same set that that angle-angle batteries that is the
smallest profile right angle drill I've yet found that's super useful this is a
lovely lovely reciprocating saw saw also I will say that this Makita impact
driver not incredibly powerful right it definitely has a limit and I've hit that
limit in this shop a bunch it's not gonna drive a three inch screw into a
2x4 no but if you're putting drywall screws in something that's it's
absolutely perfect for that and they're really nice and lightweight the DeWalt
system i have i mean i'm fully invested in the 18-volt Dewalt system but this is
a really nice sensitive model making set of drills a little more delicate yeah
finer tool for more yeah and then up here yo right this is something that a
lot of people haven't necessarily seen these are made for doing duct work but
it's basically a Clint it's a metal brake but it's a handled metal brake for
Oh neat yeah so you can do the bends no that's super cool I've never seen
that before yeah and they make many different kinds there's I think they've
that's a yes that's straight that's a slight angle there's heavier angles um
how do you control the angle you just eyeball it or you put it up against oh
no no sorry I just mean that like that goes over right yeah so you just you
clamp it in here and then you make the fold at the exact a but it's for for
bending metal and doing again since this little model work yeah this is it's just
nothing better than well and even if you just need to hold something flat like it
seems like it would be good for that yeah these are these are really really
wonderful with Wi SS makes these and I recently invested in in these two and
I've already used them about half dozen times you have some all's up here all's
I have a this it's called a brayer this is further ooh you know no no it's for
rollin blue and yeah exactly okay finally I think if you help you get
bubbles out of things it does absolutely and then lots of my tweezers yes and the
small files do you you yeah it looks like you have a mix of like clockmakers
tweezers and normal grabbing tweezers on all of it having all of it accessible
and one thing this has become incredibly useful to me glass cutter glass cutter
yes a this has already become a valued member of the shop did we talk about the
enormous bin of exact toes backwards you can never have too many exactly not yes
exactly right now just to give a precursor to this yes damn bad
I'll pull this one out so this is again one of my early first-order retrieve
ability carts this is all these saya drill dispensers for my drill bits but
again I put up top all the things that I regularly use calipers Allen wrenches my
jewelers are all the different kinds pin vices small Allen's Forstner bits Yoona
beds countersunk bits this again I'm able to work so much faster because all
the stuff is out instead of having to go to a drawer find it pull it out use it
put it back and you can see it when you can see it all that it means you may be
thinking about the problem a little bit differently so you might think oh I need
the Forstner bit for this then you actually get over here and you can see
something that's gonna work even better totally and and it's also clear when
something's not back in its place it's just the prison rules that what's
prisoner you know they have the yeah exactly yeah so and oh I just knocked
the pen off the glue that we glued on it wasn't permanent yeah so this is this is
this is part of just the ever going project of making the shop more
efficient there's probably gonna end up being another one of these and I've
managed to this building this yeah I was able to eliminate an entire I was five
foot tall stacked that was my next question or so yeah one of those whole
craftsman things it's not all the way empty but almost the point away oh yeah
yeah there was a it was a candle stack and I gave it to my shop assistant oh
there you go they took it home that's fantast are we happy about it so more of
those are coming you think this is the final version of this are you feeling
pretty good about this there's going I think I'm going to end up utilizing some
of that open space in there a little bit more efficiently again I've got to see
how I use it in order to see how to modify it and how to augment and it
looks it doesn't look like something you spent a ton of time putting together I
spent more time thinking about it than I did putting together making it and took
about three or four hours but I spent several weeks sort of staring at all
these on a row on my workbench to kind of get the feel so one thing I noticed
is you didn't leave a lot of room for expansion I assume that means if you're
gonna bring new tools and you'll probably take some out yeah I might and
certainly some of these could go away it's like some of my parallel Joel
pliers are a little bit broken and could be fixed if I do end up replacing
something it's replaced with something of a better kind comparable or better
exactly okay so FF drawers F drawers they can go
to hell that's where stuff goes today when I built this I actually found a
knife that I had been missing for three it's all that it was on the table during
the top of the stolen title for a couple of weeks yeah it's amazing so get rid of
your drawers put these things oh we didn't talk about the casters the
casters he put it on casters right put a lot of stuff on caster I do and one of
the things I've discovered is that you can buy non-marking casters often in
Lots on eBay 16 20 24 at a time for a really great price price per caster yes
yeah if you go to the hardware store they're just gonna have those black
rubber casters there they're fine but I like I you know I want higher quality if
I can get it big industrial ones are gonna be better than the ones you go to
the hardware so widely and so this these red ones were part of a lot I bought of
24 and several things I have in here are on the red casters and they're just
there end up being what like five or ten bucks each when you buy them that is I
think even less than yeah I think maybe four bucks apiece for these which are at
satellite usually 20 bucks if you bought them at mcmaster-carr oh yeah more so
that's it F drawers we will have more untested real students you guys later
thanks guys bye
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