Just counted 47 different tiny screwdrivers in my main kit drawer.

It matters because I found the one I needed for a Pentax K1000 under a pile of 46 others. How do you guys keep your small tools sorted?

4 comments

4 Comments

wyatt1352mo ago

My old system was a coffee can full of random drivers. Then I spent twenty minutes looking for a T5 to fix my glasses. Now I use a plastic organizer tray from the hardware store, the kind with little square bins. Each size gets its own slot, and I keep the weird ones like that tiny flathead for camera battery doors in the back. It looks neat but the real win is just grabbing the right tool fast.

west.casey2mo ago

Yeah, that's the move. Good call, @wyatt135. The coffee can method is just a test of patience.

michaelgrant2mo ago

Yeah, the twenty minute search for one driver is the worst. I feel that pain.

viola_lopez301mo ago

Twenty minutes though? That coffee can system is more like a half hour gamble, not twenty. I timed myself once, digging through a coffee can for a specific torx bit, and it was forty five minutes before I found out I'd loaned it to my neighbor three months prior. The organizer tray is definitely the way to go, but labeling the bins is the real secret. Take it from someone who learned the hard way that clear plastic bins just let you see a jumble of silver.