My wife gave me a nice set of a dozen screwdrivers for Christmas. I'd
like to hang them properly in my workshop. Any suggestions on how best
to hang them? I have a pegboard for my tools, but the 3/4" rings I
currently have for screwdrivers don't hold them securely.

-Fleemo

wrote:

My wife gave me a nice set of a dozen screwdrivers for Christmas. I'd
like to hang them properly in my workshop. Any suggestions on how best
to hang them? I have a pegboard for my tools, but the 3/4" rings I
currently have for screwdrivers don't hold them securely.

-Fleemo


"Proper" is in the eye of the beholder.

How about a piece of 3/4 x 3 x as required, poplar, cross drilled with
either a brad point or forstner bit for each screwdriver blade.

Attach to wall with shelf brackets.

Leave space for future expansion.


Lew

Lew Hodgett wrote in news:KEkmh.6370$yx6.328
@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net:

"Proper" is in the eye of the beholder.

How about a piece of 3/4 x 3 x as required, poplar, cross drilled with
either a brad point or forstner bit for each screwdriver blade.

Attach to wall with shelf brackets.

Leave space for future expansion.


Lew


I'll second that, and raise you this observation. Tool belt screwdriver
holders are often just a piece of material that wraps around the shank of
the screw driver. Some aren't very big at all, but they do the job well.

Your screw holes don't need to be tight, either. Just small enough so
the handle doesn't slide through. (I'd say about 3/8" should be
sufficient.)

Puckdropper
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On Jan 1, 9:39 pm, wrote:
My wife gave me a nice set of a dozen screwdrivers for Christmas. I'd
like to hang them properly in my workshop. Any suggestions on how best
to hang them? I have a pegboard for my tools, but the 3/4" rings I
currently have for screwdrivers don't hold them securely.

-Fleemo

I'm curious. How secure do they have to be? Is the room moving at such
a speed
that the screwdrivers just fly out of the holders? What is wrong with
the peg
board holders?
Lou

On 1 Jan 2007 19:39:39 -0800, wrote:

My wife gave me a nice set of a dozen screwdrivers for Christmas. I'd
like to hang them properly in my workshop. Any suggestions on how best
to hang them? I have a pegboard for my tools, but the 3/4" rings I
currently have for screwdrivers don't hold them securely.

-Fleemo


My dad used a strip of leather, stapled to the wall to make pockets
for the screwdriver shafts. Very simple and it worked well.

On 1 Jan 2007 19:39:39 -0800, wrote:

My wife gave me a nice set of a dozen screwdrivers for Christmas. I'd
like to hang them properly in my workshop. Any suggestions on how best
to hang them? I have a pegboard for my tools, but the 3/4" rings I
currently have for screwdrivers don't hold them securely.

-Fleemo

Except occasionally to help remove the lid on a paint can, I can't
remember the last time I used a screwdriver.

wrote in message
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My wife gave me a nice set of a dozen screwdrivers for Christmas. I'd
like to hang them properly in my workshop. Any suggestions on how best
to hang them? I have a pegboard for my tools, but the 3/4" rings I
currently have for screwdrivers don't hold them securely.

-Fleemo


I put mine in a tool box, I never felt compelled to display my hand tools.

Leon wrote:
wrote in message
oups.com...
My wife gave me a nice set of a dozen screwdrivers for Christmas. I'd
like to hang them properly in my workshop. Any suggestions on how best
to hang them? I have a pegboard for my tools, but the 3/4" rings I
currently have for screwdrivers don't hold them securely.

-Fleemo


I put mine in a tool box, I never felt compelled to display my hand tools.

I attached an old woofer to the side of a cabinet. That magnet hold all
kinds of screwdrivers and bits and things. (I was going to write: I
screwed an old woofer to the side of a cabinet. But in here, who knows
how that would have been interpreted.)

Yeah, if you take a look at what a mechanic does... they've got
thousands of screwdriver-like things. Everything is kept in metal
drawers. It also helps keeps the dust out.

Leon wrote:

wrote in message
oups.com...
My wife gave me a nice set of a dozen screwdrivers for Christmas. I'd
like to hang them properly in my workshop. Any suggestions on how best
to hang them? I have a pegboard for my tools, but the 3/4" rings I
currently have for screwdrivers don't hold them securely.

-Fleemo


I put mine in a tool box, I never felt compelled to display my hand tools.

I'm curious. How secure do they have to be? Is the room moving at
such a speed
that the screwdrivers just fly out of the holders? What is wrong with the peg
board holders?

The moving room seemed to be the case New Year's morning, that's for
sure.

The 3/4" metal rings on my pegboard allow the thinnest-handled
screwdrivers to slide right through, and the shortest-shafted
precariously teeter, as they're not long enough to be supported by the
second ring which hangs two inches below.

Thanks for the input here folks. I do appreciate it.

-Fleemo

On 2 Jan 2007 11:58:31 -0800, wrote:

I'm curious. How secure do they have to be? Is the room moving at
such a speed
that the screwdrivers just fly out of the holders? What is wrong with the peg
board holders?

The moving room seemed to be the case New Year's morning, that's for
sure.

The 3/4" metal rings on my pegboard allow the thinnest-handled
screwdrivers to slide right through, and the shortest-shafted
precariously teeter, as they're not long enough to be supported by the
second ring which hangs two inches below.

Thanks for the input here folks. I do appreciate it.

-Fleemo

I have a couple of pegboard "racks" or attachments kind of like the
rings, but they are just a series of "fingers" that the screwdrivers
slide into with the handles holding them up. Still might be a bit wide
for really thin handled screwdrivers (i.e. detail drivers like for
eyeglasses, etc.) but eliminates the "teetering" that you mention. I
think each holds about 8 or 10 screwdrivers. I believe that I picked
that up at a Builders Square (an old out-of-business BORG) a number of
years ago. I assume the same type of thing is sold wherever peg board
attachments are sold.

Dave Hall

wrote
Yeah, if you take a look at what a mechanic does... they've got
thousands of screwdriver-like things. Everything is kept in metal
drawers. It also helps keeps the dust out.

Leon wrote:

I put mine in a tool box, I never felt compelled to display my hand
tools.

Like this?
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/thesam...cd.jpg&.src=ph

Max

On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 16:00:27 -0500, Dave Hall wrote:

On 2 Jan 2007 11:58:31 -0800, wrote:

I'm curious. How secure do they have to be? Is the room moving at
such a speed
that the screwdrivers just fly out of the holders? What is wrong with the peg
board holders?

The moving room seemed to be the case New Year's morning, that's for
sure.

The 3/4" metal rings on my pegboard allow the thinnest-handled
screwdrivers to slide right through, and the shortest-shafted
precariously teeter, as they're not long enough to be supported by the
second ring which hangs two inches below.

Thanks for the input here folks. I do appreciate it.

-Fleemo

I have a couple of pegboard "racks" or attachments kind of like the
rings, but they are just a series of "fingers" that the screwdrivers
slide into with the handles holding them up. Still might be a bit wide
for really thin handled screwdrivers (i.e. detail drivers like for
eyeglasses, etc.) but eliminates the "teetering" that you mention. I
think each holds about 8 or 10 screwdrivers. I believe that I picked
that up at a Builders Square (an old out-of-business BORG) a number of
years ago. I assume the same type of thing is sold wherever peg board
attachments are sold.

Take a piece of jummywood or whatever you have, take a Forstner or spade
bit or whatever equal to the diameter of the handle of the screwdriver
and drill a recess into it for each screwdriver, then cut a slot from the
edge in to the center of the recess equal in width to the diameter of the
shaft. Fasten that to the pegboard with whatever seems appropriate.

If anybody wants to see a picture let me know.

Dave Hall

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"Max" wrote in message
et...

wrote
Yeah, if you take a look at what a mechanic does... they've got
thousands of screwdriver-like things. Everything is kept in metal
drawers. It also helps keeps the dust out.

Leon wrote:

I put mine in a tool box, I never felt compelled to display my hand
tools.

Like this?
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/thesam...cd.jpg&.src=ph

Max



Exactly, they do not get dusty and do not take up valuable wall space.

On 1 Jan 2007 19:39:39 -0800, wrote:

My wife gave me a nice set of a dozen screwdrivers for Christmas. I'd
like to hang them properly in my workshop. Any suggestions on how best
to hang them? I have a pegboard for my tools, but the 3/4" rings I
currently have for screwdrivers don't hold them securely.

-Fleemo

I like to build little platforms with trap doors for them, and then
tie the little noose very very tight around their little...

oh..wait, that's not what you meant. Never mind.

"J. Clarke" wrote in message
...


Take a piece of jummywood or whatever you have, take a Forstner or spade
bit or whatever equal to the diameter of the handle of the screwdriver
and drill a recess into it for each screwdriver, then cut a slot from the
edge in to the center of the recess equal in width to the diameter of the
shaft. Fasten that to the pegboard with whatever seems appropriate.

If anybody wants to see a picture let me know.

Dave Hall

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Ya got any plans for that?
Drawn to scale, properly dimensioned?
Greg

On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 19:48:43 -0600, Greg O wrote:

"J. Clarke" wrote in message
...


Take a piece of jummywood or whatever you have, take a Forstner or spade
bit or whatever equal to the diameter of the handle of the screwdriver
and drill a recess into it for each screwdriver, then cut a slot from the
edge in to the center of the recess equal in width to the diameter of the
shaft. Fasten that to the pegboard with whatever seems appropriate.

If anybody wants to see a picture let me know.

Dave Hall

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to email, dial "usenet" and validate
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)


Ya got any plans for that?
Drawn to scale, properly dimensioned?

Get the plans for the "Hanging Cabinet" from Lee Valley. It includes a
screwdriver/chisel rack.

Greg

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I reckon a bullet holster may do what you need, pilgrim.

In article om,
wrote:

The 3/4" metal rings on my pegboard allow the thinnest-handled
screwdrivers to slide right through

My tiny screwdrivers go _into_ a pegboard hole, below and between the
shafts of the bigger ones hanging from the wire rack. My scribing awl
also stabs into one pegboard hole.

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"Keep your ass behind you."

A lot of good suggestions here. Many thanks!

-Fleemo

Mon, Jan 1, 2007, 7:39pm (EST-3) doth query:
My wife gave me a nice set of a dozen screwdrivers for Christmas. I'd
like to hang them properly in my workshop. Any suggestions on how best
to hang them? I have a pegboard for my tools, but the 3/4" rings I
currently have for screwdrivers don't hold them securely.

Some things I'll hang. Screwdrivers? I don't think so. I'd say a
drawer, like in a tool chest. However, the things I do hang, I drill a
hole in the handle, if not already one, then a loop of leather, or cord,
and hang on a nail or hook. All my mallets ar hung that way, along with
the files, hatchets, and misc other tools. I'm the only one I've got to
please in my shop, so works for me.



JOAT
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears
also.
- Igor Stravinsky

I can't help it, every time I've seen this posting the same thing goes thru
my mind...


"Best way to hang screwdrivers?"

....a very small noose...?

John E.

wrote in message
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A lot of good suggestions here. Many thanks!

-Fleemo

"Larry Kraus" wrote in message

This works well for me: http://home.att.net/~lkraus/holder.htm

Nifty! ... AAMOF, the best looking I've seen. Just wished I had the time to
do fine furniture screwdriver holders.



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Swingman wrote:

"Larry Kraus" wrote in message

This works well for me: http://home.att.net/~lkraus/holder.htm

Nifty! ... AAMOF, the best looking I've seen. Just wished I had
the time to do fine furniture screwdriver holders.



You could do what I did: I took a 2x2, drilled some holes all the
way through (no fancy slots here) at intervals, then took one of
those ugly wire screwdriver holders, broke off the loops, and
attached it to the back of the 2x2. (The wire thingie that hooks on
the pegboard is inset into the 2x2, then held on with some cheap
sheet aluminum and screws.) Now it hangs on my pegboard with a dozen
or so screwdrivers in it. It ain't pretty, but it works.

darkon wrote:

Swingman wrote:

"Larry Kraus" wrote in message

This works well for me: http://home.att.net/~lkraus/holder.htm

Nifty! ... AAMOF, the best looking I've seen. Just wished I had
the time to do fine furniture screwdriver holders.



You could do what I did: I took a 2x2, drilled some holes all
the way through (no fancy slots here) at intervals, then took
one of those ugly wire screwdriver holders, broke off the loops,
and attached it to the back of the 2x2. (The wire thingie that
hooks on the pegboard is inset into the 2x2, then held on with
some cheap sheet aluminum and screws.) Now it hangs on my
pegboard with a dozen or so screwdrivers in it. It ain't
pretty, but it works.

Oops. Was browsing old posts, and didn't notice that I was
responding to something ~6 weeks old. Oh well.