Who has some good shop hacks!

[Full Size Jeeper]

Screwed the 12 inch foam pieces to the boards and hung the tools. Might be able to find something similar,like the round swim noodles.

[Carnuck]

I have used the water line foam over the handles before to avoid splinters. The pre split with built in tape works best. Keeps my jackall handle from rattling too!

[SJTD]

I see you have a band saw. I don't but I have a Sawzall some plywood and a clamp.

[Full Size Jeeper]

I have a Sawzall some plywood and a clamp.

Nice shop hack.

[Ghinmi]

Not sure if it qualifies as a shop hack but I got a bunch of rolling computer tables the school was throwing away. They make great rolling work stations, paint racks, etc. But my crown jewel so far is this welding cart. Holds my welder, tanks, clamps, gloves, helmets, stud gun, etc. And the top surface is a nice height to plop stuff on and weld.

[Ristow]

i'm envious of the welding cart.

[Full Size Jeeper]

Nice welding cart. I love to re purpose things.

[Fearless]

Perhaps not a "hack" per se, but one of my favorite garage items:



Not the beer machine (although its high on the list) but the Koozie dispenser to the left... That one is PVC, the one on the other side is a cardboard carpet tube.

[Full Size Jeeper]

Koozie dispenser out of an old piece of PVC, Expletive Deleted!Expletive Deleted!Expletive Deleted!Expletive Deleted! right its a shop hack. But how do you just dismiss an old Coke machine converted to slinging cold beers? What flavors in that bad boy. Got any Abita Amber.

[Fearless]

Koozie dispenser out of an old piece of PVC, Expletive Deleted!Expletive Deleted!Expletive Deleted!Expletive Deleted! right its a shop hack. But how do you just dismiss an old Coke machine converted to slinging cold beers? What flavors in that bad boy. Got any Abita Amber.

No conversion, found the machine in an old bar I cleaned out once. Doesn't take money. Is set up for a remote.... you'd pay the bartender and she'd hit the remote to dispense one choice. Best part is I reprogrammed it to my 3 button garage remote on the bike when I got it home. Now:
Button #1 opens the garage door,
Button #2 dispenses a cold one, and
Button #3 opens the garage door and dispenses a cold one.... Nice after a long ride.
Now that I think about it, maybe Thats the Hack I should have posted...
Unfortunately, it only takes 12 oz cans and very few good beers are packaged as such.... thats why I keep a Dorm fridge in the other corner....

[WHSII]

I have a small shop, no garage, 13' by 24'. My wood shop in the main use, but I also have my mechanic tools in there and restored my J10 using this shop.

Drill holder from 3" stainless exhaust pipe.



My wife has worked as book keeper at our local NAPA since 1986, they gave me several racks that they displayed tools on.



The rack is mounted to pivot as it did at NAPA so I have more space to put the most used tools for mechanics and layout.



I also hung one of the racks by the drill press to have all needed tools as needed. Just starting to fill up the backside of this one.



I found some dense foam rubber, that came with a commercial camera, it is more dense than the usual foam rubber, but still can be collapsed. I left about 1/8" between the foam blocks on this one, and am pleased as to how it holds the tools.



They stay put but are very easy to remove, and put back. Same here with my metric and standard deep well sockets, I had a Rubbermaid set of drawer organizers that fit the sockets in length, I laid out the sockets and allowed about 1/8" crush at each slot. They can be held upside down and not fall out, cut the side open to the bolt side of the socket, to make it easy to remove the appropriate socket.




I have a set of eight exact o knife handles with different carving blades that I did this for also.

I glued the foam pieces on the first couple of projects with contact cement, and it worked well, a bit messy but they stay in place. For the sockets, I used hot glue, and it also worked very well.

Hope this helps!

[Full Size Jeeper]

Those are all great hacks! Question, what is the brake rotor thingy do, I need to know.

[WHSII]

LOL!

The rotor is mounted to a cheap wood lathe headstock. Plans are to make a disk sander.

I cannot throw anything away...

[KilroyJC]

Instead of using a wheeled creeper, sheets of cardboard on the floor give you a couple extra inches of clearance, and help absorb the inevitable spill. Go to your local appliance store, and you can get all the large sheets of cardboard you could ever want. Plus, they insulate you from cold concrete floors or paving.

[KilroyJC]

When making card adjustments

It is far easier to keep track of your screw turns/haf turns/quarter turns if you use a square-shaft screwdriver instead of a round one. It is even easier if you number the flats.