on today's makers mashup we're throwing out the old ways of storing parts and components
welcome back makers i hope you had a great summer i know that i did and over the summer i spent some
time doing all sorts of upgrades around the shop here like many of you i now have a large number
of spare parts cables connectors not necessarily because i needed them because i can never seem
to find a package of just one component on amazon.com it always seems to be three or five
or some other number and up until recently i've been storing those spares in something like this
which is a small cabinet for small parts and works great for things like resistors capacitors leds
however it doesn't work really well for something like this arduino or
something like this wire right here so i started switching to these where they had a bigger bin
and it holds some oversized components but ultimately i wanted something that could
hold just about anything so today i'm going to be showing you a great solution that costs less than
one of these cabinets and can store just about anything so with all that said let's get to work
our use case is that we need to store odd shaped and oversized objects static sensitive components
wires cables adapters and it has to be space saving with quick and easy access to find what
i need so i came up with this yup it's a plastic bag and ninety percent of the stuff i've been
buying from amazon.com comes in one of these so instead of fighting the plastic bag i embraced it
and came up with this this is a bag hanger it's 3d printed and takes less than an hour to print
and this hanger works by sliding the plastic bag through the opening there's a small 0.5 millimeter
groove right here that lets the bag go through but it doesn't let the zipper fall through so
just about any resealable bag can now be hung up on a pegboard now i did try the simplest method of
punching a hole into the flap of the bag however the problem with that is that eventually it wears
out and tears a bigger hole in the bags and you're also limited on weight whereas a bag like this
that has this larger slider and a larger seal area can hold this
four pounds of sand which is about two kilos and it would certainly rip a hole right through
if i had just punched a hole in the top flap so let's print some of these and put them to work
so as you can see these bag hangers work really well i've got an anti-static bag here and you
can easily see the component inside of it and the zipper here i didn't even have to re-bag this i
was able to just use the static bag as it was and slide a bag hook on it and the great thing about
these is that they don't take up a lot of space and it's easy to find what you want without having
to label everything like the cabinets i also put together these pegboard mounts that hold wire and
solder reels they work really well for holding the bag hangers too but if you need something stronger
this might work a lot better for you than a wire pegboard hook and links for all of these models
are down in the description i would love to hear your ideas for what you might store with one of
these bag hangers so with that it's going to bring the end of today's video if you enjoyed it mash
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videos now i also want to thank all of my patrons for their continued support over the summer
i've got a lot of great new content coming up this year and patrons of course get early access
to models and all of the other content in the discord channel i have links in the description
so you can always check out our discord community where we help each other with a wide variety of
projects so with that i want to say thanks again for watching and we'll see you next time
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