G'Day,

So here I am starting to move the distributed stashes of "stuff" into the shed, and I'm struck with how much "shorts" I've accumulated/ stored because it was "a useful piece of material"... I'm talking several hundred kilos of steel, aluminium, brass/bronze ranging from pieces 10mm in length to over 500mm long - in diameters from 4mm up to 180mm.

I'm hoping I'm not alone in this predicament, and I'm really hoping that someone has a proven storage method/ system which caters for the storage of short pieces of metal so it's accessible, and contained.
I know one option is to give it to the scrappy and then buy new material once I need it, but I also know this option will cost me money, and is quite inconvenient.
So.. how do you store your short (less than 1000mm) lengths of material in your shed?
what systems work? what would you do better based on your experience?

Currently it's under cover in a series of plastic buckets, and millk crates. I cannot leave it like this because the buckets will collapse under the weight, and the crates are difficult to move, and small pieces fall through the holes. Once summer is over, the weather will blow in under that roof, and the steel will start rusting and be a lot less useful.

Thanks,
Des


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