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    Default Wall hung Tool storage ideas needed

    Looking for ideas- who doesn't love a wall hung tool?

    I've got a small shed, and have a 1200x1200 wall area which is open for storage options.

    I saw a french cleat style wall system which looked Ok, it was made from ply, but not sure if this will be overkill for what I need it for. I'm not really tooled up for wood working (I actually really dislike working it with it as a material- I must have some sort of un-diagnosed phobia), so a simple option will be more achievable for me.

    Looking for storage options for things like hammers, pliers, screwdrivers, spanners, punches, hacksaws etc, with the idea of having them accessible as opposed to in their boxes or rolls in one of the many filing cabinets I have stuffed in my space.

    Maybe some sort of 21'st century adaption of the old 'hammer a nail in, and trace the tool silhouette with a marker' ... if such a thing exists

    What are others using that seems to work for them?

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    You could use Pegboard, basically a perforated masonite sheet https://www.bunnings.com.au/masonite...board_p0244199
    with holes to suit these hooks. https://www.bunnings.com.au/search/p...er&pageSize=60
    This is ideal as it allows you to alter the places for tools easily. There'll be several changes before you settle on where they should be, DAMHIKT.
    You'll need about 10mm clearance between the back of the pegboard and your shed to allow the hooks to go in.
    Once you have the tools set out how you want them, apply some silicon or similar to the hooks to stop them from coming out when grabbing a tool. Silastic peels off reasonably easy to allow changes.
    For screwdrivers and the likes, use some slotted angle https://www.bunnings.com.au/search/p...99-819c-12c0c7
    as the holes are already in there. By enlarging the slots, pliers etc. can be mounted also. You could mount your spanners with this method too.

    To hold your Sockets spring loaded Socket rails are available in all sizes. https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/New-Mixe...-/253029033876

    If you have access to a sheet metal folder, you could make a lot of this by folding a U shape and cutting out the sections between where you want to put your tools.
    Can get a pic tomorrow for you to show what I'm on about, as I made some for my trolley at work to hold insulation tapes and a roll of solder. Still working on other designs for various tools. To hold screwdrivers if you didn't want the slotted angle, use some small PVC tubes as used in electrical/water etc.
    HTH.
    Kryn
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    Have a look at Just Pro Tools, their Stealth stuff is rebadged Ernst Manufacturing from the US, or Olsa Tools, available locally through Amazon AU.
    Both have a heap of different options for reasonable prices.

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    Hi Commander Keen

    I tended to use a lot of steel and ali materials that I had on hand and screwed them to the plywood sheets on the wall of my steel shed.
    Bunnings metal hooks, clip and brackets soon add up and I won't have plastic as it eventually breaks.

    Hammers. - 2 x 6mm diam rods tack welded to 25 x 3 mm black steel flat and self tap screwed to wall ply. rods angled slightly up and spaced for hammer handles.

    Pliers - Left over aluminium piece of roller door channel, flanges drilled to suit plier handles and self tapped to wall-maybe a dozen pair of various types.
    You could use A/section or alternately drop plier handles between 2 parallel 6mm rods and tacked to the angle section.

    Screwdrivers - Same as above plus another S Driver rack of 25 x25 RHS tube ,drilled for varying screw river shank diameters- 25 x 25 mm a/sect tacked to end, drill and self tapped to wall ply.

    Punches - 50 x 25mm RHS as above. Holes drilled vary top to bottom to accommodate the tapers of the punches which just drop in.

    Hacksaws- 32 x 32 x 3mm angle sections with 3 Hacksaw hanging vertically by cuts in the flange of A/Sect.- I have 4 hacksaws, each fitted with a different tooth pitch .

    Spanners are in a tool box, sorry no help there.

    Files - Angle section 50 x 50 x3mm. Holes drilled to fit shanks and cut outs with thin blade angle grinder- self tapped screws to wall. Lotsa ,files so some are in a wooden bracket.

    Weld shields and other visors-- 25mm builders strap I was given (its got holes punched in it) . I made curved frame so shield head harnesses do not get deformed by hanging on hooks.Pop riveted and insulation taped over sharp rivet ends.

    Welding gloves. I bought a jumbo spring loaded paper clamp at the newsagents and hang it, with gloves clamped in it, on a screw in the wall.

    The strapping was also used for brackets for adjustable square and 150mm block square.

    25x 25 flat and angle section brackets made for 3 x 115 and 125mm a/grinders and screwed to wall ply. Grinders hang by their guards.
    I am sick of not having a decent camera and may buy one during the week and do some pics .

    Hope this helps you.

    Grahame

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    I went with a quick method for most of my wall tools to just 'get the tools out of the way'

    I got some small aluminium tube and wood screws. I was able to cut the tubes to the required length and drive a screw through it. It's more elegant than hanging on just a screw. The only downside is it requires a bigger hole. I just drilled out the tools where required

    And tracing the tool is a good idea so that everything has a place

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    Hi Guys,

    When I needed some extra wall storage, I went and bought some kitchen style wall mounted cabinets. Plenty of room to hang tools on both the back and the doors. Plus you have a shelf or even two if you need them. I've got a pair of two door units, 500 mm wide, 600 mm in hight and 300 mm deep. they are 250 mm below the ceiling so I've got room on top as well.
    Best Regards:
    Baron J.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Commander_Keen View Post
    Maybe some sort of 21'st century adaption of the old 'hammer a nail in, and trace the tool silhouette with a marker' ... if such a thing exists
    tool nail board.jpg


    Don't bother with a shadow board, they don't work well in a typical home workshop.

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    I was keen on pegboard in my old shed but most of the wall disappeared when it was connected to the new shed and the pegboard on the RHS was replaced by a door to the back of the shed.
    OldPBshed.jpg

    In the refurbished and new part of my shed I was not going to have any pegboard but as I already had the spare boards from the old shed and I needed something I threw one of the boards up.
    Pegboard1.jpg
    That was in 2011 and that board is still there although it differently organised.

    I now keep a set of all-sort spanners on the pegboARD
    Pegboard2.jpg

    Sockets and ratchet spanners are in a drawers as is most tooling, fixings and tool sets like taps and dies.
    Drawer3.jpg

    Everything needs reorganising as I recently acquired at set of Whitworth spanners and they cluttering up one of the bench tops.

    In my electronics area I have no wall space and all the tools are in a six drawer Sidchrome cabite.

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    This is good timing for me - I've just started to clean up the very messy and somewhat chaotic bench at a farm where I work with a view to doing it "right". A better way of organising tools so they always go back in the right place is one of the main things I want to sort out. I'll take some pics next time I'm out there and see what people think.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RustyArc View Post
    This is good timing for me - I've just started to clean up the very messy and somewhat chaotic bench at a farm where I work with a view to doing it "right". A better way of organising tools so they always go back in the right place is one of the main things I want to sort out. I'll take some pics next time I'm out there and see what people think.
    Even without tool outlines I have no trouble putting the tools back into their "right" places on the pegboard, and as already has been said it allows for the board to be easily reorganised without much work. Some of the replacement pozies are well defined by the specific hooks/holders, or the available space on the board. I already had a few pegboard specify hooks from the old shed and just added to these plus I got a bunch more hooks from the mens shed that they didn't want.

    The mens shed went with nails or screws into ply sheets and drawn outlines of tools on the sheet.
    That didn't help as there were often a number of tools in use in the shed at any one time and many members ignored the outlines and just hung then tools back on the nearest available hook . The most irritating thing was the screwdriver rack which was a 600 mm long board attached edgewise onto the ply with about 20 vertical holes along the middle of the board (large holes for large and small holes for screwdrivers etc) and behind on the ply was an outline of the size of each of the screwdrivers. Invariably the smaller screw drivers would be replaced into the holes for the larger ones etc - this drove me nuts.

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    I`d be lost without my pegboard.

    DSC07152.jpg

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    I have never got into the shadow board marking as the system is in a constant state of flux.

    Tony

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    Quote Originally Posted by Commander_Keen View Post
    I've got a small shed, and have a 1200x1200 wall area which is open for storage options.
    A point to consider, is that Commander Keen is limited 1.2 SQMs of wall area, available.

    Using shadow board only, means that only a certain amount of tools can be shadow boarded in that small area. Call it 2 Dimensional
    as opposed to horizontal stacking which we could call 3 dimensional.

    If you use a horizontal stacking - multiple tools say on horizontal hooks, the down side can be having to unload the hook/s to get access to the rear tool.

    Invariably the rear tool is always the very one you need at that particular moment.

    Another con on the horizontal method is that projecting tools out from the wall eats up your bench top space.

    As far choosing a tool selection to hang up goes, I suppose it gets down to what tools do you use the most.

    Also I would add this to the conversation. For me as a short tase a wide bench and 1.2 high board doesn't work terribly well for reach without a step ladder.

    If you are tall, well and good, but if ya not the reach over height should be considered.

    My board for welding gear alone -with no bench in front -A roughly 1200 x 1200 plywood board hangs:

    3 x 4/5"angle Grinders,
    A 600mm foot steel layout square, -the ubiquitous 2 foot square
    A 300" steel square,
    Aluminium 200mm TRi Square
    A 1200mm level.
    1 x 900 mm level,
    1 x 600mm Rigid Magnetic based level
    1x torpedo level
    Trammel heads
    Set of home made dividers-500 radius
    200mm spring head dividers
    Chipping hammer
    Wire brush
    Home made flux scraping tool
    Protractor level
    A hanging tray from 50mm PVC pipe split end way for hard chalk screwed to plywood wall
    A magnetic bar on top with a dozen different sized cold chisels and diffrent shape types ie diamond, u chisel.That sort of stuff

    For a metal orientated hobbyist ,I don't think that is a lot of tools, but they all are squeezed onto the 1.2 SQM area.

    Grahame

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    Quote Originally Posted by BobL View Post
    Invariably the smaller screw drivers would be replaced into the holes for the larger ones etc - this drove me nuts.
    There's only two other people who will be using this particular area, unfortunately one of them is pathologically messy.

    I've seen a few ideas ideas here that I will definitely be stealing - there's a bunch of odd spanners or partially-complete spanner sets - having them hanging by size with multiples where appropriate would be a good solution to consolidating them. Only catch is some of them are open-end on both ends, so deciding which size to hang them on could be an issue...

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    Just because it’s a wet miserable day here in Melbourne.
    Some of you may have heard of Mr Studley and his tool chest.

    It’s a very inspiring thing, I actually think it’s a work of art.

    So it really depends how far you want to go.

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    That is one impressive tool chest.

    At the bottom of my pegboard I have a 200mm shelf. Handy for all sorts of things.
    DSC08534.jpg

    Some little shelf type things that can be moved if needed.

    Seal picks

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    Magnetic base dial gauges next to the lathe.

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    Hang two spanners on one hook if they have a ring.
    The double open enders are a pain and sit in the tool box under the bench.

    DSC07306.jpg

    Tony

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