Over the last few days I've managed to move many small things from the garage over to the trailer, small things like relays and small electrical items, hardware, other miscellaneous crap. Of course there's the matter of finding a place for all this stuff on the shelves too. Friday we did pick up a wall organizer set that consists of hangers that mount on a wall and the associated trays that hang on them. We also got a small table top box with drawers that will also be used for storing small hardware in a more organized manner. When you get to the point that we're in you come to realize just how much little shit can actually accumulate over the years.
With the new organizers in our hands I was able to place the drawer unit on the shelf where I left a large space open. The wall organizers were hung on a spot on the wall between the two automotive parts shelves in the right hand corner. Some more were hung on the other side of the bathroom nook wall, on the toilet side. In these extra trays a lot of small hardware was divided up according to the category it falls in. A lot of small hardware also went into the drawer box as well, all kinds of small stuff - fuses, screw/nut combos, automotive relays, etc. Not every compartment or tray was filled but at the same time extra trays and drawers are needed in order to better divide the hardware. Right now some trays may have bolts of different sizes stored but they're the same diameter, or they're metric, or whatever. The end result is to have trays set up where we have say, 1/4"x1", 1/4"x1.5", 1/4"x 2", same for 3/8", same for 5/16". Another batch of trays and drawers will allow me to have a nicely organized inventory of different hardware for all of our applications whether car related or "other". Another thing I did was take some spare shelf panels and installed them on a couple of the shelving units. There was enough space above the drawer box that I was able to put a shelf panel right above it and still have room to store more crap. The other two shelf panels went on the shelving unit that's up against the back wall of the trailer, in the area where the tub was. These extra shelf panels will allow me to put even more crap up. Once I get the remaining nuts and bolts and other crap sorted out I can then fully move on to the next phase which is further dividing the hardware based on the individual sizes to fulfill my plan of having a highly organized parts/hardware storage system.
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