Solved a minor storage annoyance for Hammers

**skot** · 8th July 2017, 06:50 PM

I have a board at the back of one of my work benches that stores lots of tools, screw storage cabinets and much more. Recently I noticed that I was running out of room on the tool board and a large part of that wasted real estate was down to the individual Hammer holders that I made many years ago and have been looking for a simple solution in the last couple of weeks.

This morning SWMBO and myself went along to our Reverse Garbage outlet.....people in the Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne will have one. They are an outlet that gathers in all the items deemed "useless" or offcuts or surplus to requirements from businesses and are sold at greatly reduced prices to the public which saves this stuff going into landfill.

I found my Hammer storage solution......In a barrel at the back of the store were hundreds of clothes hanging arms...the type that attach to a slotted wall storage system.

$2 each for the heavy duty arms (50c each for light duty)

I manufactured a french cleat out of scrap and here is my Hammer storage solution

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I also got a couple of the light duty ones to store my batch of 8 Tee handled allen spanners

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Just a quick, cheap & easy solution to storage that now frees up space on my back board.

**KBs PensNmore** · 8th July 2017, 08:33 PM

Great idea, only problem I can see, is that the hammer I want to use, will always be at the back of the rack.

I might copy the idea, not so much for hammers but for other tools. Thanks.
Kryn

**skot** · 8th July 2017, 09:21 PM

Thanks Kryn,

I did think about that and the hammer I use the most is at the front. I don't use hammers a lot of times so it won't be a major problem..I'm not a blacksmith or metal worker so I only use them infrequently. This is another reason they were taking up too much room and not utilised every day.

**BobL** · 9th July 2017, 12:23 AM

I use a set of overhead wine glass racks like these.
Mine doesn't fit all sizes of hammer - just my smaller ones
It also means you can get at the ones right at the back

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**Mobyturns** · 9th July 2017, 08:58 AM

I simply made a "coat rack" style hanger system for hammers using pairs of 5"/125mm & 6"/150mm x 1/4" zinc plated hex head bolts through a section of 19mm ply. Used a suitable sized forstner bit to create a small recess on the back to take the washer and nut, and a washer and nut on front side to lock it all together. Stores three hammers per pair of bolts. Simply space the bolts to suit hammer shaft sizes plus clearance for the bolt heads.

**richmond68** · 12th July 2017, 05:32 PM

Those slatwall fittings aren't the usual ones I see, which hook into the top of the channel not the bottom. The ones you have don't look like they fit in commercial slatwall.
For hammers, I'd be tempted to use a pair of waterfall arms like this:
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Makes it easier to pick out the one you want and lift out. Or screw an eyelet hook into the end of the handle and hang them from one of these:
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One of the reasons I lined my shed with slatwall is there's about a hundred different fittings for it, you can usually find a fitting to do what you need.

**Christos** · 13th July 2017, 07:58 AM

I think it is a very cleaver idea.

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