Any Creative Ways to Store Measuring Instruments?

Love the concept but I am tooooooooo lazy to put the tool back when finished. I consider the time spent looking for misplaced tools as the R&R portion of the project. It also reminds me to slow down and enjoy the hobby side of things.

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Hi Brad;

Since I use the tools you have pictured at different phases of the project, they are not stored together.

I keep them where they are close by as dictated by the use . Some hung on the wall, some in drawers, some mounted to the end of an assembly bench.

Lee

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Brad,

I’m no machinist, so I may be underestimating the strength of it, but I would be wary of storing my starrett square on its blade, with the weight of the square itself leaning constantly in one direction. Seems like it might have the potential to bend slightly, or loosen the square’s binding pin. I have always been a fan of “holster-style” storage for these types of tools, which translates to have a bunch of slits that you simply drop the blades into.

-b

I have one drawer under my workbench dedicated to measuring and marking tools

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Neat idea Brad.

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in my little basement workshop, I have a long bar magnet that I hang from the ceiling from two strings just above the height of my head. when i am in the middle of a project, I just reach up and stick the measuring tool, screw, hinge etc that I am using at the time and let it dangle so I don’t have to rumage around the work bench. If course if I were to clean off my bench top I wouldn’t need this, but it is a cool way to have things when you need them and temporarily out of the way.

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Mine lay around on my benches, where I can grab them easily to use when I need them. They’re lazy. My tape measure and pencil, though, get together and run to the far end of the shop and hide. Anyone know what I mean? What do you do about those guys? bbqKing.

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I also have a dedicated drawer for ‘most” of my measuring devices…however , they can’t always find their way home ! LOL…I also have some measuring devices left at certain machines for immediate use …have a great day : )

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used to just keep them wherever I used them last. I try to hang the carpenter square, and return the tape to the same place, but I recently (nearly) finished a long overdue shop cabinet, and i have dedicated custom holders (kinda like holsters actually, now that you mention it Ben) for them on one of the doors. Literally made out of a small piece of scrap wood (screwed right to the door) with a well placed kerf for the blade of the combination square (for example) to hang down from. easy, convenient and works great – and I know where it is!

as for your pencils running off bbqKing… All I can suggest is scattering pencils all over the shop (they’re territorial when large numbers are present, and try to keep their distance from each other.) If you have enough of them, then there’ll always be one within reach.

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Cool concept!

-- so much wood, so little time. Bradford.