Organizing my tools
I’ve been looking around for a while for a solution to organize most of my tools. The biggest issue is that it needed to be portable because I bring my tools at the race track.
I don’t have a ton of tools, but I have enough that its hard to be portable without having them organized. Last years we rolled a bigger tool chest on the trailer every weekend, I wanted to try to avoid that but still have the essential tools with me at the track.
I bought a smaller 4 drawer tool chest. And the mission now was to jam all the essential tools in there and sort them out.
A lot of people recommended Ernst tool organizers. Its a very flexible solution and quality is pretty good. They have solutions for sockets, wrenches, screwdrivers, etc. I was mostly interested in sorting out all my sockets.
This allowed me to not only organize the sockets, but they also take up a lot less space in the drawer. I think the setup turned out pretty good.
I used a combination of the Ernst socket organizers and the cheap socket rails that you can find at Princess Auto.
A good resource for this type of stuff is the Tools Forum at Garage Journal. There’s a lot of people on there that are crazy about tools and that can provide you with good info.
