Parts Rack

I recently revamped the shop by turning the metal bench 90°, moving the miter saw and mortiser to the West Wall, and moving the woodworking bench into the small East Bay.   Now I'm looking at wall space and I have a bench under the AC on the East wall that is rarely used except as a junk pile.   If I shorten the East wall bench, I'll need a place for the 10 X 12 X 24 long storage boxes under it and the bolt storage bins above it.   So I'm making a roll around rack to hold the small parts bins currently on the South bench and the bolt bins.   Next I'm moving the large bins under the East bench to the vacated South bench (West end).   I will also make a roll around table for the router table, with drawers under neath to store routers and accessories.   After removing the router table, I'll cut the bench and remove is't North end under the AC adding 66" of wall space.   The roll around parts rack and a new roll around router table and the loading bench will fit in the new wall space under the AC.  

The parts bins are 15" wide, 18-3/4" high, and 6-1/2" deep.   The large bolt bin is 14" wide, 18-3/4" high, and 6-3/4" deep.   The new roll around parts rack will hold the 5 small parts bins currently on the South bench and new parts bins on french cleats for the bolts.

The way most projects start in our shop, 2x8s laying on the floor.

Lumber after cut to length, ripping, and resawing.   I still need to cut miters on ends of base pieces.

The 2x4 base being glued.   The corners are mitered.

Completed bins.   Please take a look at how these are made.

Main part of the vert frame being glued.

Sides being glued to vframe.

Gluing the base to the vframe.

Note the triangles (sawed off from mitering base) used to improve clamping pressure.

Gluing the top rack cleat.

Gluing one of the middle cleats.

Completed parts rack with bins and plastic bin boxes.   Some of the plastic boxes were really broken so I may need to replace them.   I'll probably build bins instead of buying, a lot of these drawers aren't large enough.

Quarter view, note the empty bench top, in the background, where the plastic drawers came from.

One of the lift-out bolt bins on the table saw.

Back side of the parts rack.

Closer look at storage bins on the parts rack.

Close look at a bin actually hanging on the rack's cleat.