Tool Storage with French Cleats (1 Wall = 35 Tools) #Workshop #sujmenon

in this video I'm bringing you an exciting episode on tool storage on the walls using French plates the plan is to build a French cleat based system on that empty wall there and make it look much more interesting like this so let's get on with the build the first course of action is to cut some patents and that's going to be made from two by fours and I'm going to use my flip miter saw station for that before I go any further let me try and explain what I'm trying to do with the sketch of animation essentially that's my blank wall and these patterns which I caught are going to go on to that wall on top of the battens there will be a half an inch MDF sheet and on that MDF sheet the actual French cleat systems will be screwed in in my case the cleats are going to be made by two by fours and as you can see over here it's going to be cut at 45 degrees the bottom part of it is going to be screwed on to the wall and the top part is what gets attached to your storage system and now let's come back to the battens these battens are going to be secured on the wall using anchor bolts so for that I'm going to use this fastener bit to take off around half an inch on the wood and then I'll use a 10mm drill which is the width of the actual bolt itself to go directly through the 2x4 so using this pre-drilled holes on the battens are used in SDS trim and drove straight through the wood onto the wall and I used two 10mm bit for that once I got that I hammered in the anchor bolt and then whacked it all in and then I used a ratchet spanner to tighten it all up and with that all the five bathrooms are now secured onto the wall and each batten is held by three separate anchor bolts which are spaced across it next I used an anchor grinder and grind it off the excess bolt so that there's nothing sticking out of it and for the backing I'm going to reuse this old wardrobe doors which I have salvaged for some time they're like half an inch or so and I guess it's MDF so these are going to get screwed onto the battens now it's going to be held by three screws of the and three at the bottom and all the screws are going to get driven directly into the battens and this should ensure that all the load is spread across the five battens with a total of around thirty screws holding it together and now for the actual cleat so as mentioned before these are just going to be two rifles my case is going to be around 2.15 metres wide which is roughly a little over seven feet down since I've got two by fours from different batches my very first step is to plane them down all to the same thickness after this on the table saw I just took a little bit from the edges from both the sides then I tilted a blade to 45 degrees and did some test cuts and then with that I nail down the distance from the fence to the blade which approximately in my case comes to Iran two point one five centimeters and with that I started cutting the tree [Music] now back at the garage I gave it a quick sand at 80 grit paper this was down to just smooth them down the edges and then I used some paste wax to give it a really smooth finish now back on the miter saw I cut all the keys to linked and over here I'm just marking positions to pre-drill the holes and from the edge of the board I mocked five centimeter as a spacing and draw a temporary screwing this is so that I could get the cleats aligned to start building up the system and with the help of some clamps I caught it all level and then drawers cruising through the board into the bottom now that we got the first row in place it's time to build a system up it always makes sense to start from the bottom and then build your way up in this case I'm going to have 130 mm spacing between the second cleat and the first key the process of building it is kind of similar that is you drive in one screw in the middle level it up and then start screwing in from one end to the other and that all the kids are now in place now we'll start building the actual storage boxes and all that stuff so I'll be reusing a lot of materials that I already have now Chris below has asked an interesting question on how you decide the box structures and what goes back so my thought process was to write it down all in an excel sheet and list out all the tools that you have in column C I also highlight if you need to store any accessories with the actual tools itself column D is kind of the shape or the model of the box whether you want a box or whether if you want a shelf or whether you want a dedicated system on its own and the next column indicates whether you need a handle for it so that you can carry it down to your project and the last column is just some general comments where I've written down sources of inspiration or the design that I should do to build it up with the lack of finding a better word I'm just going to call them storage designs in the first one I'm going to make a compartment that's going to store three of my tools multi-tool the angle grinder and the electric file along with your accessories the first step in this process is to cut down plywood into sheets and then on the table saw cut them all to the actual width the boxes are going to be held together using dedos and these are going to be cut with the router bit which is around 19 mm now the plywood is 18 mm thick but they fit perfectly well as you see here and when you use my router sled to cut the dados and I did that using two passes and after cutting the dados I ripped it into two equal parts on the table saw with all the pieces cut to size I started assembling it it's a pretty straightforward setup that is glue spread the glue around countersink the holes with a drill and then drive in the screws each fan gets two screws on the side and I repeated it on both the sides as well here you can see that the data fit in perfectly well now it's trying to assemble the back panel so these are scraps or other offcuts of plywood every one of them gets pre-drilled countersunk and the screws are driveling now for the actual cleat this is the remaining piece from the 2x4 and they just get screwed in from the top now it's time to fix it on the French cleat and this is how it looks all right let's talk about story design number two now this is for my reciprocating saw jigsaw and a few other stuff like that all the pieces have been cut like before that is the data have been cut on the router and all the pieces have been trimmed on the table saw as well now the only difference in this one is that it's got a center shelf in between to hold it and that's why you see me mocking over here and chopping it on the miter saw the assembly is straightforward glue white pre-drill the holes screw it in fix a backing plate and screw the cleat in now for screen the cleat in I created it using a foster bit and then use 50 mm screws and just draw it in and the cleats are hung on to the frame at five different positions and that should be plenty strong enough the next storage unit is going to be for my Sanders so I got an orbital sander random orbital sander and all the accessory sanding discs so the same format dedos with a router and then just screw the whole lot in here and just reusing some old piece of plywood as backing for it and everything gets pre-drilled counter song and screws are driven in and there's also space on the top to put some other tools like this handles and all that next I cut a few sheets of plywood and that's just because I was running out of my scrap piece of plywood which are usable the next storage shelf is going to be from Y 1/2 inch and quarter inch routers and if necessary in this I'm going to show the data cutting process in a bit more detail so I first take a piece of plywood and mark the place where I need the data to be cut and then using the router sled I place it on top clamp it up tightly on both the sides and take a light pass from left to right after this I I just stop and decrease the depth by a little bit more and take the second pass and then a rough run using the sanding block and the datas are done and now I repeat the process down the panel so once I get this big sheet the next step is to take that to the table saw thank cut them into equal parts a quick sanding and then it's trying to pre-drill it so for that I mark positions using a combination square and I drilled from the grooved side to the outside so that you know where the screw holes has to be and then it's similar to what we are done before that is you pre-drill it again so that there's a pretty little hole on the other piece of the plywood and then just trying to screw in my half-inch router comes with this ginormous straightedge guide and I figured it's a good place to hang it on the side and now it's trying to put the cleats in after doing a dry run of all the accessories I just kept all the small pieces the router call it the spanners the straightedge guides and everything on the side and then use some IKEA hooks to just throw them away and then I just placed it all back on the French cleat system storage design fire is going to be for my drills my impact driver and for my nail gun plus some brides and all that stuff this build is going to be pretty simple it's got a friend a bag two triangle sides and a small lip in the friend as well the assembly is again straightforward glue spread drew countersink and then just screw it all in and now the cleats are attached to it there's a few small things which I couldn't record which are adding that angle triangle in between and the small lip for the nail gun so that it holds it vertically with all the bigger boxes now being built it's trying to flush trim the edges so with a fresh trim bed I went over all the backside of all the other boxes and then with this corner inch router I gave it a small round over as well so that it's good to the touch and there's no splinters on it so I went over all the exterior side as well as on the shelf spot offices I cleared out my sander and sanded it down with 80 grit while I was with the sander I also sanded the entire French cleat again clean it up and vacuumed it in as well [Music] the next one is going to be from a track so this is again a simple bill that is you got a bottom a back and two sides and they're all joined together with the same format that is glue pre-drill countersink and screws a quick round oval and sanding and it's done now for the cracks on my track saw I just drilled a hole with a metal bit and then draw a screw into one of the joists and just hung it up there the next storage unit is for my old circular saw so I chopped the pieces using the track saw and made a 45-degree bevel over here and then chopping in with the 45 degrees or the track saw I must say it's a bit nerve-wracking to cut it on a track so and I have to do it again I'd probably use the table saw anyway once I got all the different pieces cut I use my router again to cut Gaydos and to accommodate the safety guard of the circular saw I again use a router to cut out that data [Music] all the pieces are now glued pre-drilled countersunk and Cruden I cut off the excess on the table saw and then attached the cleats on to it now even though it looks nice and I've seen a whole lot of youtubers use this kind of a system for me personally I don't use a searcher saw that often now since I got a crack selfie so this is version 2 of the circular saw stand and this basically what I've done is I've taken four pieces of deck boards chop them into pieces and made a big chunk like a butcher block I used to hold 40 grip the sandpaper and glue it on the bottom now when you push it with a finger you can see that it's not that easy to move if required I can always screw it down from underneath as well and now for some clam storage designs so the first one is going to be for my F clamps which are 300 mm long it's got three parts to it the front part the backing plate and the top long strip on which you actually put your F clamps on the long strips are designed in such a way that you can actually carry the entered cleat all together take that to your workpiece do your project and then you can put it back in on the cleats again I like the design a lot so I made two of them the next one is for my 450 MMF clamps they are similar in design the only additional thing is accounted for the bevel of the F clamp so I transferred the bevel on to the miter saw and cut the bottom piece in that angle so that makes it like a sort of like a compound angle and then I glued and screwed it tight and it's called the same principle that is the friend long part is actually services like a handle as well so you can't put your clamps on it put it back on the cleat take you to your project along with the whole unit work on it and then you can put it back on the cleats again the next set of clamp storage is for my earl wing quick release clamp again this has got only like three confidence to it the first piece is a travemünde double and now what you're seeing is a block which holds the double in place so you drill at random hole in an angle to it and that's also a backing plate with a trial mm hole which is like semi resist so after applying a lot of glue you just squeeze a double back into it and then you drive in a screw from the back and another screw from the side and that's about it the good thing about this design is that it's pretty simple and you can just slide your quick releases just on top of it [Music] next in the design our shelves so I basically got two kind of shells in this whole project one of them is a hinged one which you're seeing over here and another one is just a flat one now the idea of the hinged one is to store smaller objects like drill bits and all other things which are laying all around the garage so with the hinge you get a positive stop and you have all the bits lying inside so basically the whole thing is assembled straight forward the only tricky thing is getting the hinges in place and securing the magnetic catch as well to secure the magnetic catch I just used a smaller 10mm screws so now if you want to grab a particular kind of a drill bit you just open it reach in use it and just put it back now for some reason I didn't like the exposed edges of this so I had a few off cuts off two rifles which I cut into thin strips of 18 mm and I just screwed that here and now it looks a lot better and now for the open shelf so it's just called a back a bottom and two sides so this shelf is predominantly going to be used to hold other bits which comes in its own boxes and cases so I have a few mallets and hammers lying around so the plan is to just create grooves on a plywood and just add that onto the cleat now the same design I had used it last year or my garden shed organization to store some other tools so basically you use a table saw and cut the grooves in it and then using a phosphor bit you just join the cuts it's actively making a big u-shaped groove on which the handles will slide in the next one is going to be a small shelf for my chisels and rasps so I place all the chisels and us next to each other and then measure the width of their necks and then using an appropriate foster bit which ranges from 15mm all the way to 30 mm I drilled all the holes in it then it's just a question of attaching the cleat and I applied a thin edge banding all around it and the job's done and last but not the least a small space to keep all my squares and other measuring tools what I've done over here is I just marked all the cutouts and created small templates all of it for the combination square I cut a data on the table saw where the curve of the blade is the same width as a combination square then I used an off cut off palette and ran it through my planer now this chain is going to be my next video it's going to be a flip planer which goes straight underneath this bench all these cutouts are spaced glued and then Brad nailed in and then this assembly is just screwed on to the wall now this essentially is not a French cleat system but I thought since I built it I just add that in this video and with that this massive wall is done now before you run off to the next video or do something else I like to say if you like this video please consider giving me a like you can also subscribe please subscribe and I would really be interested to listen to your thoughts about this whole bill if there's something which you would like me to add or something we just done wrong or something which could have been made even better please let me know down below alright thanks for watching and see you in the next one [Music] [Music] you [Music]

Channel: Suj Menon DIY Builds

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Id: jJNQgrBNXo8

Length: 25min 58sec (1558 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 07 2020