SIM
Titanium
- Joined
- Feb 19, 2004
- Location
- Staten Island NewYork USA
We are a small shop...but we have a ton of tooling.
I started with a tool box as a table for machine with storage space...a small cabinet for basic cutting tools specific to machine. Worked okay for one and then two machines...but a few more machines, couple more boxes...add to that I'm no longer on the floor and my old system (or lack of) is falling apart. Multiples of some tools, not enough of others... Specialized items in different cabinets...new consumables in office. In short...its a mess.
Big tool cabinets sounded great...but $$, take up alot of room...and even then...how does one sort the tooling ie-I have at least 8 kinds of 3/8" carbide endmills...same for 1/4, 1/8 1/2"...then indexables, new tech, old tech that we still like...update to toss out the ones we no longer use.
Something expandable...retractable in terms of amount of each item or create spaces for "in between". Seems overwhelming so I leave it as it is...
Anybody have a system that works, that they like.
Thanks
I started with a tool box as a table for machine with storage space...a small cabinet for basic cutting tools specific to machine. Worked okay for one and then two machines...but a few more machines, couple more boxes...add to that I'm no longer on the floor and my old system (or lack of) is falling apart. Multiples of some tools, not enough of others... Specialized items in different cabinets...new consumables in office. In short...its a mess.
Big tool cabinets sounded great...but $$, take up alot of room...and even then...how does one sort the tooling ie-I have at least 8 kinds of 3/8" carbide endmills...same for 1/4, 1/8 1/2"...then indexables, new tech, old tech that we still like...update to toss out the ones we no longer use.
Something expandable...retractable in terms of amount of each item or create spaces for "in between". Seems overwhelming so I leave it as it is...
Anybody have a system that works, that they like.
Thanks