Joel_BC
Super Self-Sufficient
This is a minor but useful detail in keeping tools orderly and within reach in a shop.
For my shop, I made a hammer rack that now holds several hammers and mallets, as well as two electric drills. It's a simple arrangement of a couple of parallel strips of three-inch wide (3/4-inch thick) boards - in this case, cut to about two feet in length. A wood spacer a little under an inch and a half thick separates the boards at each end. Pieces of the rack are screwed together. The rack is attached by screws to a couple of the frame members of one of my built-in workbenches.
I keep my metal-working hammers in a different corner of my shop. So with this new rack, it was handy that I didn't have all that many hammers to fill the rack up with - because it quickly dawned on me that the chucks of two electric drills would allow the drills to nest in the space remaining. Impacts or vibrations on my bench don't shake the drills out for a fall to the floor, because the rack's slot for the chucks stabilizes them nicely in the rack.
For my shop, I made a hammer rack that now holds several hammers and mallets, as well as two electric drills. It's a simple arrangement of a couple of parallel strips of three-inch wide (3/4-inch thick) boards - in this case, cut to about two feet in length. A wood spacer a little under an inch and a half thick separates the boards at each end. Pieces of the rack are screwed together. The rack is attached by screws to a couple of the frame members of one of my built-in workbenches.
I keep my metal-working hammers in a different corner of my shop. So with this new rack, it was handy that I didn't have all that many hammers to fill the rack up with - because it quickly dawned on me that the chucks of two electric drills would allow the drills to nest in the space remaining. Impacts or vibrations on my bench don't shake the drills out for a fall to the floor, because the rack's slot for the chucks stabilizes them nicely in the rack.
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