Family Handyman: Keep your drills and those must-have drill attachments organized and close at hand to make your DIY projects run smoothly. By investing just two hours, you can build this wall-mounted drill dock to house everything you need. There’s a top shelf for accessories, a wider lower shelf for larger items such as battery packs, and the clever use of 3-inch PVC piping makes hanging holsters for different drill attachments.
I love a good tool/hardware storage wall so I was really excited about this article. I’ve never seen this trick for holding drills with PVC! At my camp counselor job we had custom-cut pieces of wood for holding our ~20 drills. I think we just didn’t have any of this huge PVC laying around anyway, but it certainly would have taken less work to use it (only two hours !!) The use case of moving heavy objects with PVC is also cool, I think that’s one theory for how Stonehenge was built. I also like the sanding file idea which is simple and seems very effective. Sadly a lot of the use cases proposed in this article feel a bit silly to me, like the hammer holder which seems like it cannot possibly be real. The overhead storage also seems like it could probably be achieved with wood rather than buying special PVC connectors, and similarly I don’t know why you would spend time cutting wood into slots that could fit into PVC rather than just building a caddy for screws entirely out of wood. BUT I would definitely have appreciated the idea of storing a long item such as a T square in a PVC pipe earlier in this year.
ReplyDeleteThe hammer holder was a insane idea. If only I had a ton of PVC pipes laying around. I did find one PVC pipe which I used for Rube. So maybe I have bad associations with PVC pipes now. However, I can acknowledge they are pretty useful. I would like to use them as holders for small objects. Another thing is that this website is calle the family handyman, which is unfortunate that handyman is associated with the male gender. I could be a handyman too. Anyways, I think the overhead garage storage is super cool. My dad does something similar with the structural I-beams in our garage. He stores wood and surfboards up there, as well as some scaffolding. The "quick draw" storage hangar is so funny--it makes it sound like some sort of weapon (does this appeal to the male fantasy? it kind of appeals to me)
ReplyDeleteI really love PVC pipes. Like, I just have some sort of obsession with them. They’ve always brought me so much joy. Pieces that fit together? That’s awesome. I love an assortment of different connectors and corners, and the massive variety of different shapes that can be formed is something that I find incredibly satisfying. That being said, this was a rather disappointing article for things to create with PVC pipes. I really think that basically everything in this article could have been better made with something else. None of the “life hacks” for things to do with PVC pipes really utilized the main appeal of PVC pipes, which is an easy way to connect things together. They were mainly just “cut it in half and use it as a dish” which at that point, I think it’s better to get a dish that won’t roll away from you because it’s a semicircle.
ReplyDeleteThis is such a good list of PVC hacks, to be honest I wasn’t expecting the range and versatility that this article ended up offering. Though it did lack a range into the smaller categories of PVC pipe. The options for large PVC pipes are really clever. I like the drill holder, though I worry the PVC will bend at that size, but then again I haven’t really seen 4” PVC pipe before so I wouldn’t know. The fishing rod organizer is rather unique and later on there was another way to organize rods, so there are options to choose from. The hammer holder is especially cool in the way it reuses materials from things that would normally be lying around a shop into something useful in a shop and in general, I haven’t got a hammer holder yet, but this seems promising. The small PVC pipe sizes seem to be mainly useful as cup holders for smaller tools, though the sanding stick is a pretty cool idea so one doesn’t have to hold loose sand paper, I should probably use that PVC pipe I’ve got to make one.
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