Archive for July 24th, 2016
Tool Drawers: Cheap Foam Liner
Posted by Ed in Home Ec, Machine Shop on 2016-07-24
You can get fancy closed-cell foam sheets for the bottom of your tool chest drawers and tote, but it seems awfully spendy, even with Harbor Freight quality plastic, for something that you must cut-to-fit. The drawers are just under 22×11 and 22×17 inches, so a 18×72 inch roll would line maybe three drawers; call it three bucks per drawer and, with nearly three dozen drawers to line, I’d rather drop a hundred bucks on tools.
Rather than do that, the usual eBay supplier provided 150 feet of 1/8 inch x 24 inch white polyethylene closed-cell foam sheet for $27 delivered:
Polyethylene foam sheet – roll
It’s intended for packaging small items for shipping, but I’ll never tell.
I mooched Mary’s 2×3 foot rotary cutting mat (this reenactment shows the awkwardly sized 17×23 inch mat), her longest quilting rulers, and dullest rotary blades:
Rotary cutting foam sheets
After a few mis-steps, I got the hang of it:
Foam-lined tool tray
It’s not as contrast-y as black foam, but I can still find the tools:
Foam-lined tool drawer
And I have plenty of foam left over for shipping small things, if I ever do any of that…
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