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A couple Christmases ago, my wife and brother-in-law gave me this Sears "homeowner" tool chest. The chest on top is screwed into the riser, which is screwed into the rollaway, and the screws aren't that big. Anyhow, my tool collection in the garage has outgrown this chest thing, and I'm thinking of getting a bigger rollaway and chest for the garage, then using the one I have now in the gun room to hold my gun tools and the accessories for the guns that didn't hit the lake bottom during that horrible boating accident. I figure the things I have for repair and cleaning the gun(s) I have left would fit nicely in the old one. I do have a Gorilla workbench in there with two drawers but I need more room than that and bottles and cans are cluttering up the bench top.
So after all that, I'd like your thoughts on my ideas and I'm also wondering how you guys and gals store your tools and accessories for our favorite way to turn money into noise. The gun room is a mess and overflowing with things and any ideas are appreciated.
Pegboard and shelving on the walls can hold a lot of "stuff". I have a 6'x2 1/2' workbench in my shop/gun room. It has a 2'-deep lower shelf to hold the bulky liquid stuff - quarts of stock cleaning/refinishing products and Ed's Red bore cleaner (I mix it up in gallon batches). I cobbled together a three-shelf unit out of 1x4s to mount above the bench - that holds smaller bottles, boxed sets of small tools, etc., and pegboards on either side are handy for hanging all sorts of goodies. My one-piece cleaning rods are hang in a rack mounted on the side of a two-level gun rack. Shelves above another gun rack do for books and boxes of spare parts. It ain't elegant, but it works for me. (The gun racks are empty, of course .)
Jim Dozier - Straight, but not narrow... “A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.” - Rudyard Kipling.
We use a couple of plastic tackle boxes for the cleaning supplies. Everything else is in an old desk that has been modified into a coffee table in the living room. Amazing how much stuff will go in a file drawer.
I think most of us are merely "normal" gun nuts, Chris. If we had your setup, we'd think we had died and gone to heaven, (or wherever John Moses Browning is now).
May I borrow about five linear feet of workbench?
Jim Dozier - Straight, but not narrow... “A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.” - Rudyard Kipling.
Jennifer wrote:We use a couple of plastic tackle boxes for the cleaning supplies. Everything else is in an old desk that has been modified into a coffee table in the living room. Amazing how much stuff will go in a file drawer.
Been there, and it worked well too. We pro-constitution folks are a creative and inventive lot, aren't we?
I've replaced the tackle box with a Plano Shooting Case - I got mine at Cabella's link here. I always fill it with cleaning gear and toss it into the truck when I'm going shooting. The "staggered yokes" pop off and fit into the case. I also use it on the workbench when cleaning rifles, with a rubber mat underneath to keep it from moving. One of the best thirty bucks I ever spent. (Ask Santa for one.........)
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Jim Dozier - Straight, but not narrow... “A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.” - Rudyard Kipling.
In my experience, we never have enough. That said, I'll bet Jennifer's and Frankengun's firearms are just as well-maintained as Chris's or CC's or mine. Let's get over ourselves and give Frankengun some suggestions and ideas. We can do this..........
Jim Dozier - Straight, but not narrow... “A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.” - Rudyard Kipling.
I miss having a gun room... Again, not for the guns as much a for keeping everything organized. (Moon clip loaders, straighteners, cleaning brushes, etc etc etc.)
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I'm definitely completely overshadowed. Most of my guns can be taken apart with only their own pieces, and those that can't, a typical back of the garage toolbox will take care of. Aside from cleaning supplies, which reside in a large cardboard box in the closet, the only real "gun tool" I have is my Garand combo tool, which handily enough fits inside the buttstock of the rifle.
I figure the things I have for repair and cleaning the gun(s) I have left would fit nicely in the old one. I do have a Gorilla workbench in there with two drawers but I need more room than that and bottles and cans are cluttering up the bench top.
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We can do this..........
