Thread: Long term parts storage

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For the most part projects on here are apart for awhile.That means you need to store parts for a long term.

Yes,I know the zip lock baggy part of it,but I am looking for the kinds of systems you guys have developed over the yrs.Maybe some pictures would be cool.

I don't have that much experience, but I use the sandwich bag & sharpie labeling method for small parts. Anything bigger usually gets sprayed with WD40 to reduce rusting before being set aside for later. All parts get set on shelves where they cannot be found at the time they are needed without a search of at least an hour, and often much, much longer. Some parts get moved out of the building by 'night gremlins', never to be seen again, or to re-appear in plain sight the day the replacement part is delivered.

My go to pile

Wow.. you've got shelves! OH, and lighting! I love it! My stuff ends up in a cabinet and seems to fall off the end of the earth!

I still can't find the keys for the coupes doors! I've been searchin' for a year! OUCH!!!

I built the shelves from steel chanels I bought at a garage sale $5.00 each I bought all he had. I have had engines on them very strong. I put tread plate behind so not to knock holes in the wall

Originally Posted by 34_40

Wow.. you've got shelves! OH, and lighting! I love it! My stuff ends up in a cabinet and seems to fall off the end of the earth!

I still can't find the keys for the coupes doors! I've been searchin' for a year! OUCH!!!

Night gremlins!

i drink tasters choice coffee and save the plastic jars. they are semi transparent. i put all my little pieces in them. i use them for my SS nuts and bolts also. easy to see what is in them . i also have some totes i got from a napa store that i can put stuff in and stack.

Originally Posted by shine

i drink tasters choice coffee and save the plastic jars. they are semi transparent. i put all my little pieces in them. i use them for my SS nuts and bolts also. easy to see what is in them . i also have some totes i got from a napa store that i can put stuff in and stack.

I do the same with the "Jiffy Peanut Butter" jars. It's easy to select which SS bolt I'm after this way!

nuts and bolts plus library

Sexy.

Nice organization

Parts I dont want to rust like cams, blocks, heads, rods, pistons/ wrist pins, use it for undercoating, any thing that could rust or tarnish coat them with CHAINSAW BAR LUBE. It is almost like cosmoline. Eventually it dries. I have had stuff like machined blocks coated with it stored for decades with no rusting.

Charlie, that's an impressive setup for sure! But just like my place, every flat surface ends up with "stuff" on it...

we know who the go to guy is now. no google bs just straight from the book ! at one time i had many manuals from my body shop days. worth gold.

Charlie - you do realize that you are a sick pup with that organization. The spare parts 'pile', I can understand, but those manuals .........

My shop is usually reasonably neat and clean but not to that point.

Typically, I stack crap on the shelves, letting it collect dust for several years.

THEN, a week before I need the parts, I get on a cleaning kick and junk it.