Where do you guys store your parts?

[kabdriver]

Not THOSE parts 😆

So, I live in a pretty small apartment and I store most of my unused kit parts in plain old kit boxes, and I've got a plastic folder for keeping my decals nice and flat and dry and safe.  It's not the best system though - I have to dig through big boxes of loose random parts to find anything and then I'm like "ohh look, a doodad" and nothing ever gets built because I get distracted.

So, what do you guys do about storing your spares?  I'd LOVE to see some storage solution ideas, if anyone has any cool ideas or setups to share

[Deleted]

I have about 3-4 of those shoe box size plastic storage boxes for the parts plan to use or are very rare. (a Uncertain T body) The common stuff is in one of those 20 gal storage tubs.

[donculley]

I build in my basement , so parts end up EVERYWHERE! I have parts in old kit boxes ,two large cardboard boxes, a couple of small boxes with drawers etc. I always have the same problem ; you know you have a certain part, go looking for it and get distracted

[grumpy]

many are in a large tote but I I do use smaller ones for wheels tires custom stuff wife grabs them from a dollar store but they work great and there clear so I can see in them also use small zip locks so hot rods in some muscle cars in others and the scratch building stuff or conversions in another

[hobbybobby]

Previously, I had a chaos system, more or less everything in a crate, then there were two, then three and so on...

Over the years there have been more and more parts, I spent much time looking for with, and never find the right one, so I decided to arrange everything, and believe me, it's still not all sorted!

A small selection of my parts storage...

[kabdriver]

Ok, so I decided instead of organising my stuff I'm just going to move into Bobby's place 😂😂😍

[kabdriver]

GREAT pics Bobby! Thanks SO MUCH for sharing. TOO cool!!!

[Brandon]

Yeah, Bobby needs to adopt all of us!

I have a small nuts and bolts bin I work out of, with a separate drawer for things like headers, superchargers, non-supercharger parts, rims, seats, front suspensions, rear suspensions, etc.
I also have one model kit box that is nothing but chrome trees. and another that is just tires... the rest is lumped into other model kit boxes. I have a Model T and A boneyard box that is nothing but those, a showrod bits box with trimmings and body scraps hacked off of others, and everything else just kind of lives in a model box in the stack. Once I complete a project I toss the box, and this makes room for more.

I also have three other square nuts and bolts bins that were given to me by an older guy, they were his when he was a kid in the '60s, and out of respect, I've left all his parts in there, though I do pull from them for stuff, they are just there. I have a toooon of AMT trophies and doo-dads. He and I did the same thing with models, only a few decades apart.