After designing custom bins for ratchets and extensions there was space left over. No problem – I have more tools to go there!
First was a distributor wrench. This is a two piece tool with a roughly “L” shape which was a bit tricky to fit. Using the standard GridFinity bin sizes required a larger bin than I really wanted, but no choice in the matter – you have to work in integer multiples of the grid size. OK, push the distributor wrenches to the outside edges of the bin and use the center for something. What about the oxygen sensor socket that didn’t really go anywhere? Nice – fits almost like it was supposed to go there. A few iterations and this bin was done.
Some of the tools didn’t justify the work of creating custom bins. For these simply create a hollow bin in the GridFinity generator and print them out. With GridFinity you always have options!
Now for the socket drawer itself. I already had all of the sockets mounted on rails. While many people use GridFinity bins for sockets I like the rails – so, keep the rails and use Gridfinity for everything else.
The process I’ve been describing so far focused on designing the individual bins. While I haven’t mentioned it yet, I’ve been working with a set of GridFinity baseplates sized for the drawer space. In addition to holding the tools, the set of bins were designed to fit the available space. This required a fair amount of arranging and re-arranging the bins, plus some of the bins were designed to fit the available space around other bins.
