Tool Board Plans/Ideas

[jugheaddave]

Hi

 

Want to build a tool board for my workshop. Any ideas, hints, tips, plans, pictures ect

 

 

thanks

 

[jugheaddave]

no ideas then

[Dirtbreath]

Ideas on what? What to put up ie tools or how to make the pegboard?

[rad006]

Peg Board with hooks

Then put your tools on and outline them with permanant marker then you know which tool goes where and which is missing

[Xenomorph]

I wouldn't go with a peg board-not very durable and looks KUK, use some proper thick board, lay your tools on cardboard on the floor work out where everthing should go-comomly used tools in middle then replicate on wood. for some reason I cant upload images but I have a ggod photo for you, what is yr email?

[Canaris]

throw them all in a heap.  In this way if one or two get lost or stolen, you will not notice until you need it, and then it is too late to get angry.  If you put it up on a board, then every time someone "loans" your tools then you will get  the blixem in when you see the gap.

[Johan Bornman]

I have a different view of pegboard. It think it is great. It gives you the flexibility to change things around and buy new tools and then move everything up to make place for the new member of the family.

 

Some guidelines.

 

1) Buy White pegboard. Brown looks yuck and it takes ages to paint the stuff. Don't do the outline thing. Tomorrow you want to re-arrange and then you have problems.

 

2) Mount it 15mm off the wall so that you have spaces between the board and the wall. The pegs need space.

 

3) Buy commercial/retail pegs that hook into two holes. The single-hole hooks always come off when you remove the tool. Crawling around on a garage floor looking for hooks is not my idea of fun.

 

4) Always put the forge in the centre of the room. It blackens the walls if you go too close to the sides.

 

 

5) Screwdrivers and other long tools need a different plan. Here I've used a piece of angle aluminium with holes in.

 

 

6) Note the magnetic tool rack on the right. That's the handiest thing I've come across in a long time. Mitco makes it. It holds pliers far better than hooks.

7) Fit your vice with aluminium jaws.

 

 

 

[Tumbleweed]

http://www.popularmechanics.com/home_journal/workshop/4261542.html

[Captain Slow]

Johan, I have a problem.

 

Firstly, very nice & neat workshop.

 

Secondly, the shelf on the left, the L bracket in the middle is not at equal distance from the end brackets!!

 

 

 

just a joke!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Johan Bornman]

Johan' date=' I have a problem.

Firstly, very nice & neat workshop.

Secondly, the shelf on the left, the L bracket in the middle is not at equal distance from the end brackets!!


just a joke!!


[/quote']

 

It worried me for days. I couldn't sleep about that bracket. I even considered re-routing the conduit from the plug to the ceiling so that I can put the bracket in the centre. I then compromised.

 

But now that you've noticed, it is bothering me all over again. I think I'm going to rip the electrical wires out and reroute....

 

[wackwack]

JB - i know it's not in the pic but where did u get the 'jobbie' that hold the sockets so neatly?

[Johan Bornman]

JB - i know it's not in the pic but where did u get the 'jobbie' that hold the sockets so neatly?

 

You talking about the one in this view?  Top left hand corner of the ppegboard?

 

Those are available from Makro. Go look at the Mastercraft tool section. They're availble for 3/8th and 1/2 inch sockets.

 

[cyclenut]

Johan' date=' I have a problem.

Firstly, very nice & neat workshop.

Secondly, the shelf on the left, the L bracket in the middle is not at equal distance from the end brackets!!


just a joke!!


[/quote']

 

It worried me for days. I couldn't sleep about that bracket. I even considered re-routing the conduit from the plug to the ceiling so that I can put the bracket in the centre. I then compromised.

 

But now that you've noticed, it is bothering me all over again. I think I'm going to rip the electrical wires out and reroute....

 

 

Attach another bracket to the board only. Don't worry about fixing it to the wall - so long as it looks right.  Form over function !!!

[wackwack]

Is it a steel peg board or a wooden one?

 

Where exactly did you get that magnetic strip from?

wackwack2008-11-20 03:02:43

[jugheaddave]

thanks for all the ideas.

 

My address is david@dekotech.co.za

 

[pastapouch]

get a board, use  nails for sockets, and ringspanners. and as JB said, steel/aluminium angleline for screwdrivers. And I don't wanna know what angleline cost these days. For drills, a rectangular piece fo wood, drill holes in, whether you wanna put it on the wallboard is up to you!