Organising my Workshop using 3D Printing

this episode is brought to you by squarespace the only one platform where you can create your own website now who would have guessed there i've gone ahead and printed even more boxes this time around though with a ton of new features and a lot of new built-in functionality that will help me and maybe you keep organized with all of my tools and equipment in my workshop now up until now in my previous projects i've been printing a ton of these small assortment bins these are fantastic if you want to organize small nuts and bolts and other small things or even large things with the bigger ones but the ones we're going to show you today are a lot more specialized to help me organize everything from sandpaper to chisels and even drill bits so let's jump right into it and i'll show you all the cool stuff i made so this is the current situation in my drawers as you can see it's really not that bad but there's a few key things that i really want to improve on as you can see i've already started organizing a lot of the stuff in here but i started doing this a long time ago that was back when i initially designed these boxes so these are the old version that doesn't have the locking feature built in if you don't know what i'm talking about i've since then designed this grid system with boxes that have a similar feature on the bottom of them these two pieces will lock in place and keep everything from shifting around in the drawers when you open and close them so one obvious upgrade is just to switch out all the boxes with the new system but there's one more thing that i really want to improve and that is the way i store my drill bits and other small bits and pieces that i use quite often right now i just have them in these terrible boxes that they come in and they're just piled on top of each other without any sort of system so we're gonna greatly improve on that to start let's clean out this drawer and then glue in a bunch of these grid pieces and yes i've yet again printed the whole box for these grid pieces oh and talking about printing stuff i've been printing a lot of these parts on this prusa mini which prusa kindly sent me for this video i'm actually going to give away one of these so stick around to the end of the video if you want a chance to win one oh mission accomplished i can now have one lonely box in the middle without it moving around if i move around the drawer let's start filling this whole thing back up again all right so a lot of these things will just go back in where they came from i'm just switching out the boxes with the new style all these will just go into the same thing and same thing with these now that stuff is nothing new you've seen all that before now i want to show you what i've come up with to sort all of my drill bits which i've currently got stored in all of the different boxes they came in so what i've made is this thing might not look like much but this thing will hold every single drill bit in half a millimeter increments everything from one to 13 millimeters just so happens that i have a really nice drill bit right here that as you can see is just all over the place that we're gonna load up into this [Music] [Music] now isn't this just super satisfying to look at and so much better than this case that you have to take out of the drawer and open up to access your drill bits so now as soon as i open my drawer i can super easily access all my different size drill bits and i've even made a little space at the bottom here so that i can label what size drill bit is in the slot so there's a couple of really nice features built into this holder one of which is that each slot is the exact right width and length for its drill bit so a size up won't fit in the one that is too low and if you misplace a smaller one into a bigger slot it will have much more space and sit lower than the other ones so it's super easy to catch if you misplaced one also all the pockets have a little indent in the back here if you press down on it it's super easy to grab a drill bit that works with the bigger ones all the way down to the really small ones now all that stuff is great but we're still taking up a lot of space just for these drill bits that's why there's a little handle here so that i can remove this thing and the bottom half of this box can now be used for extra storage now i can store my extra drill bits in there for when i want to use something else than the really nice ones or i've even made special inserts that will fit inside of here so that i can store a bunch of other stuff that i don't use that often or even spare drill bits for that set and that way i have even more storage but i still have all of my most important things right on top now we're gonna do the same exact thing with all these torx bits and specialized drill bits for wood and countersunking drill bits for that we've got this thing now this works in basically the same way as for the drill bits it's just a little bit smaller and a bit more general so instead of having specific length slots for each individual drill bit they're all the full length but different depths and different widths now these will fit everything from the countersinking bits to these a lot more specialized wood bits and even my torx bits so again same idea all the bits that i use most often are at the very top it has the same feature that if i press down in the back it flips up so i can easily grab it and so that we can utilize the space even more efficiently we've got again two inserts that will go in like this that way we can store all our spare bits and drills in underneath here and then everything easily accessible at the top so now this can go in here and we are already starting to see that we're a lot more organized now there's a lot more stuff to come but if you're already thinking that you would like to have one of these in your own workshop i just wanted to let you know that everything in this video and a lot more stuff will be able to download from my website which is alch.shop that is also a perfect segue to today's sponsor which is squarespace so for as long as i've been making stuff here on youtube i've had my own website where i'm able to share my designs and projects with you guys now i built that website using squarespace squarespace enabled me to quickly and easily set up my own website it's really easy to get started you don't need to have any technical knowledge just choose from any of your award-winning templates and get started creating your own website right away there's also not only how many products you can list on your site so i've just updated my website with all these new cool sizes that you're going to see in this video in addition to a bunch more sizes of the regular assortment bins all which you'll be able to download squarespace is an all-in-one platform that you can use to create your own website there are great built-in tools to handle everything from sales and inventory to shipping and analytics head to squarespace.com for free trial and when you're ready to launch go to squarespace.com alch for 10 off your first purchase of a website or domain all right let's continue organizing these drawers so for smaller things like individual bits of various sizes it can often be a bit annoying to have to reach into one of these big pups to grab them out so i made this thing same principle with one of these top pieces that are much shallower so it's easier to reach and the bottom half where you can store some extra stuff so here i can store everything from my posse drive to phillips to flathead and allen and of course we've got a little spot here where we can label them so now everything is a lot more easily accessible and in case you have more of these i also made a bigger version and if you have smaller ones i made a smaller version and these fit with the same grid system so that you can interchange between different tops and they all fit with the same bottoms [Applause] but sometimes you have a bit larger things so why not make a couple of these to have more space so now we can do things like having a couple of easily accessible sticks of glue stick on top and having all of my spare glue in the bottom or i can have a tool that i use a lot in the top and in the bottom i can have something that i hopefully won't need as much but it's really nice to have if you need it like band-aids and for all of my measuring tools rulers and squares and combination squares and that sort of stuff i could make a very customized specific holder to fit my exact tools but that would one be a ton of work and to not be very useful to anyone else than me or people that have the exact combination of tools that i have so i've instead just made one of these really really big ones that i can stick in here and then i at least have a dedicated spot for where all this goes and no i don't have a printer that is this big this thing is actually made up of two individual pieces and you'll find a lot more of these styles of boxes available on my website because i made a lot more of them available for you to download i've split them up so that you don't need such big printers to print them and with every download i'm now also including both versions of these boxes with either the label in the middle here or on the top there [Music] first word on and i'm really happy with the way all this is turning out i feel like everything is really easily accessible even though i have way more stuff in here and since all this is modular if i in the future want to switch out one of these with something else i can let's move on to the drawer underneath now there's really nothing crazy that we're going to do here all i want to do here is switch out these old style boxes with the new ones glue in the grid in the bottom and then i've also printed a couple new boxes to fit the stuff that is now just laying loosely in here now i also wanted to point out an issue i've had with these older style boxes when they've loaded up with a lot of heavy stuff because they can slide around over time all of these have started to bend from being pushed up against each other which hopefully should be eliminated once we switch them out with the new ones quick and easy not a whole lot of change but everything is at least the new style of boxes and should stay in place when i open and close the drawers and again i could have made more customized and specialized versions to store all of my tools perfectly but i think this is plenty organized and that way it can also be more useful for you guys we've got one drawer left which is this one over here where i store my sandpaper a couple of chisels a saw and some other things now funny enough i just said that i didn't want to spend a ton of time customizing these inserts to perfectly fit one specific tool for this drawer though i kind of end up doing just that we'll talk about that in a second first off clean this out so that we can glue in the base grid because in this one especially everything really really moves around now these two types of holders i designed a long time ago and you might have seen them on my website already for these the only thing i've done differently is that they now have the same grid pattern in the bottom so i'm just going to switch out the old ones with these new ones [Music] so that drawer is looking pretty nice but let's be honest it's basically just the same thing that we had before just with the new boxes now the real issue with that drawer was this thing these are all my nice saws and chisels which i store in this litter thingy which is nice if you want to take it with you but in a drawer this becomes crumbled up and it's just a mess so now onto my solution for this now we still need to glue them together but these two parts are going to make a specialized holder for my three sizes of drill bits so all we got to do is glue this thing together hopefully pretty straight like this and now this thing will perfectly hold my three chisels pretty neat huh now why not take advantage of the space underneath so we've got this guy with just enough space for the sharpening stone and all the other stuff that we need to sharpen these chisels this thing goes on there and now i've got everything super easily accessible i got a big two by eight box in the back here into which i can pull all of my saw blades and other stuff i realized that this probably only fits my specific chisels but in case you have the same ones it will be available for download on my website and for the very last product i'm going to show you in this video i've also modified my glove dispenser holder which you can fill with disposable gloves to fit with the same grid system as well that one is available as well man i'm so happy that i finally got all these drawers organized i've been wanting to do that ever since i moved into this workshop and i built this work table now remember if you want to print any of these boxes they will all be available to download from my website i've also just gone through and updated all the files so that i'll now have a ton more new sizes as well as a lot more variations on each individual box so that you cannot choose if you want the label on the top or on the side and also i've got a lot of new boxes that are split in two so that you can print really big ones on a smaller printer talking about a smaller printer this is the prusa mini it's basically just a smaller version of the big mark iii that perusal sent me a while back and although it's a little bit smaller it's also a lot cheaper and the print quality is actually really great it's not actually that small you can comfortably fit a 3x3 box on the print surface now at the beginning of the video i said i was going to give away one of these and all you got to do to get a chance to win one is like this video click subscribe and then comment down below let me know what the first thing is that you would print with one of these i mean after you print a couple of these assortment boxes of course i'll pick a random and the terms and conditions are in the description below alright so that will be it for this video thanks so much for watching i didn't exactly make a ton of stuff in this video but there was a lot of work that went into designing modeling and printing these behind the scenes so i hope you enjoyed watching me get my drawers a lot more organized and hopefully these can be useful for you as well thank you so much for watching and i'll see you guys in the next one bye you

Channel: Alexandre Chappel

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Length: 14min 20sec (860 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 28 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/Beyond_Life]

Alexander prints a lot of fun stuff. And he makes great vids. But he talks like he has to laugh every word he speaks.

[u/Command-Forsaken]

Pretty neat system he has got going on there.

[u/thomooo]

That looks amazing, as well as his workbench. This might actually be worth buying at $45.