Grahame Collins
21st Jun 2018, 10:51 PM
Hi guys,
Nothing as grand as the projects that you fellows are working on but just a little something I have been playing with for a while.
As some here already know, I dislike goods made of cheap nasty plastic and defer to metal whenever I can.
I dislike the plastic parts drawers as they are guaranteed to degrade, crack, break and spill the contents to all regions of the garage floor.
In this case, I long wanted a smallish set of parts drawers to house my small diameter threaded stainless steel screws and their accompanying washers and nuts. Commercial sheet metal parts drawers are worth a mint and I could not justify the cost.
It all came to me when I was eating some canned smoked oysters and playing with the can realized that the sizing of the cans would be perfect for a small set of parts drawers. Hopefully, someone else can use the idea and save money.
I have used the can ring pulls as handles to pull the cans /drawers out of their pigeonhole.
Once the lid is removed from the can and it is washed, the remaining upper edges are dressed, The wider edge (at one end) is not dressed until later. I cut the slots with a hobby knife-be sure to punch each end with a prick punch. It helps stop over runs with the hobby knife
The parallel slots are opened to receive the ring pull. Lastly, do a bit of dressing to fold the remaining rim edge down to help lock in the ring pull, dress that down and a dab of hot melt glue as a belt and braces fix.
I hope someone may find it useful.
Grahame
I am not showing the pigeon hole frame as it looks like crap.:doh:373907373908373909373910373911
Nothing as grand as the projects that you fellows are working on but just a little something I have been playing with for a while.
As some here already know, I dislike goods made of cheap nasty plastic and defer to metal whenever I can.
I dislike the plastic parts drawers as they are guaranteed to degrade, crack, break and spill the contents to all regions of the garage floor.
In this case, I long wanted a smallish set of parts drawers to house my small diameter threaded stainless steel screws and their accompanying washers and nuts. Commercial sheet metal parts drawers are worth a mint and I could not justify the cost.
It all came to me when I was eating some canned smoked oysters and playing with the can realized that the sizing of the cans would be perfect for a small set of parts drawers. Hopefully, someone else can use the idea and save money.
I have used the can ring pulls as handles to pull the cans /drawers out of their pigeonhole.
Once the lid is removed from the can and it is washed, the remaining upper edges are dressed, The wider edge (at one end) is not dressed until later. I cut the slots with a hobby knife-be sure to punch each end with a prick punch. It helps stop over runs with the hobby knife
The parallel slots are opened to receive the ring pull. Lastly, do a bit of dressing to fold the remaining rim edge down to help lock in the ring pull, dress that down and a dab of hot melt glue as a belt and braces fix.
I hope someone may find it useful.
Grahame
I am not showing the pigeon hole frame as it looks like crap.:doh:373907373908373909373910373911