jonsangel
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How do you guys store your extra material? I have buckets and crates full of scrap but it's not a very effective way to organize it
Material Organization
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Dirtfiend602
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I had shelves I made for my cut table for anything longer than 2’. All other rems I put in buckets based on round square etc.
smokeysevin
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I have some of the yellow and black totes for my small stuff that should really just go out on the curb, one for steel and one for al/ss.
My bigger stock pretty much just gets in the way or lives under my pallet rack style shelves where I forget about it or have to move 69% of my garage out of the way to get. Too much shit in a 2 car garage.
Sean
My bigger stock pretty much just gets in the way or lives under my pallet rack style shelves where I forget about it or have to move 69% of my garage out of the way to get. Too much shit in a 2 car garage.
Sean
Tubing is in buckets. Plate is on a cart I have. Larger pieces on bottom and smaller ones on top under a wooden lid so I can still use it to set things on I haven't ground on my ameribrade. I mainly use the scrap tabs and such for making fixtures or stuff I need with a hole since they're usually old tabs that didn't work.
Motiracer38
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I need to do something else as what I have isn't working. Long tube is outside rusting, sheets are leaned up against a wall making the back sheets near impossible to get to, tube cuts are hung on the wall or standing in a metal cart, short tubes in a bucket and a box, plate stacked on a shelf that constantly slips off, and everything else spread around.
These have been working out well for tube cuts
Amazon product
Modified one of these to stand up 2-3ft material and remain mobile. Actually doesn't work too bad
Amazon product
I think the biggest problem was I used what I had sitting around and didn't really have a plan. I have a shed dedicated to the plasma table so the sheet will likely be relocated out there and give me a chance to change it all up. Definitely looking for ideas to minimize footprint.
These have been working out well for tube cuts
Amazon product
Modified one of these to stand up 2-3ft material and remain mobile. Actually doesn't work too bad
Amazon product
I think the biggest problem was I used what I had sitting around and didn't really have a plan. I have a shed dedicated to the plasma table so the sheet will likely be relocated out there and give me a chance to change it all up. Definitely looking for ideas to minimize footprint.
For sheets I made a 1" box tubing piece similar to the first wall mount BUT with the legs going vertical so I could put small pieces in furthest channel from the wall, then 3/16" plate in one channel, 1/8" in another and 1/4" or thicker in the one against the wall. Then above that you could have a smaller shelf or shelves for smaller tabs you cut and didn't use.
