Related to that thread. If you're curious about what I'm talking about with the tobacco tins. Here's part of my storage setup. I need to make some more of the wooden shelf unit. This was the prototype to prove the concept.
@quixoticgeek I got 3 sets of these and they're GREAT because you can take out a whole drawer of (for example) potentiometers or bagged ICs and then find the bag with the right value...
@twigathy i tried that sort of thing. But can't easily put a drawer load in a backpack to cycle across town to a workshop...
But if it works for you. Go for it!
@quixoticgeek@social.v.st @twigathy@hachyderm.io I found that 4/9-litre Really Useful Boxes™ work quite well for larger component/tool storage (to say nothing of camping equipment storage and paper magazine storage). Stackable to a reasonable height makes them Generation Rent friendly, and you can shuffle them round depending on what you're working on.
Not especially bikeable, but quite good for chucking in the footwell of a hire car as the need arises.
@kim @quixoticgeek @twigathy I have box envy.
@ravenbait @kim @twigathy i highly recommend the 4/9/19l really useful boxes. Esp if you can get them in different colours, so you can have sewing stuff in purple, tools in black, stationary in clear, etc... they also fit perfectly on IVAR shelves from IKEA. Which are also excellent.
@quixoticgeek@social.v.st @ravenbait@mastodon.scot @twigathy@hachyderm.io My sewing stuff got relegated to the remaining not-Really-Useful (slightly useful?) plastic boxes, which are much less robust, but wedge neatly in a corner of the bedroom. I don't do a lot of sewing, so this is fine.