The OCD Tool Organization Project

I wanted to give a bit of an update on the OCD tool organization project and update everyone on what I have done to my toolbox since first shadowing it. 

As an airframe & powerplant mechanic by education, hobby auto mechanic and as an electrician by education and trade, I have come to learn the importance of keeping an well organized work environment, both for work efficiency and for safety and for taking care of my investment in tools. I shadowed my toolbox to allow for quick inventory of the toolbox and to insure that tools do not go missing. 

Since first beginning the project and since moving out of education and into industry, I have transferred out a lot of my electrical focused tooling to use on my everyday job and have tailored my toolbox more toward the purely mechanical field. 

Socket drawer 

I still have to get a few sockets here and there to fill in the gaps before I start working in the field, but I am pretty happy with how it looks so far.

Ratchets, breaker bars, speed wrenches, micro-wrenches and torque wrenches

Wrench drawer 

I picked up an 18mm ratcheting wrench right after taking this picture so I finally have a complete set of both SAE and metric wrenches. 

Screwdriver drawer

Pliers drawer

Soldering iron, micrometers and prybars

The prybars pictured are cheap harbor freight and after only using them a couple of times on smaller jobs I have determined that they definitely need to go and be upgraded with a nicer quality set that WONT BEND when you actually use them for their intended purpose. 

My ultimate plan is to get a Sunex 8011 Screwdriver & Prybar Holder to add onto the side of the tool cart and get allow the bottom drawer to be used for storage of a digital torque wrench set, compression tester and vacuum tester when I eventually get them. 

Junk drawer

This is my catch all drawer but I wanted to make sure that everything had its place and had extra foam so I decided to shadow this drawer.

Pick, punch and scraper drawer

Magneto timing tools, test probe and a cheap OBDII reader

Mac tap & die set, Mac snap ring pliers set, oil filter cutter & axle nut socket set

Layout and measuring tools drawer

File drawer

Allen key drawer

This drawer is pretty barren, especially since taking the majority of my t-handles and allen sockets out to use on electrical projects. I do plan on eventually filling this in with a set of SAE t-handles. 

Wrench drawer

Hammer & striking tool drawer 

Future drill bit drawer 

Bit driver drawer

PPE drawer

My homemade powerbank drawer for my power tools, chargers and batteries 

Check out the complete project overview on Imgur, GarageJournal or here on Hackaday. 

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If you have any suggestions of tooling I should add or how to better organize the box, I would love to hear from you.