Find the Right Tool Storage Box for Your Requirement

Not only mechanics and production workers face the problem of disorganized tools, an average person has to face this problem quite often as well. The only answer to this problem is to start organizing your tools. This will save valuable time and your tools from getting lost. Proper storage will also keep them rust and dust free. In the present situation, toolboxes are designed to hold different kinds of objects; it is not limited for hardware use only. If you work with your hands, then you already know finding the right tool when you need it is critical. When you have the right tool for the job, you can complete your task quickly with minimal wasted time.

Using the right toolbox will also keep your work area neat and clean. While transporting or moving from one place to another, you will be able to manage your tools properly.

Aluminum Toolbox

These kinds of toolboxes are used for light duty work and they are reliable for any kind of job. These toolboxes will safeguard everything which is inside the toolbox by using Tool Foam Sheets. You may have seen photographers and computer technicians using aluminum boxes to keep their equipment safe from any kind of damage. Inside these toolboxes you can use toolbox foam, making these boxes a perfect place for your valuable gadgets.

Toolbox for Kids

This may sound strange, but there are different types of toolboxes available for kids to store their toys. It happens with every child that they change their mind while playing, when they change their mind they leave everything lying on the ground and move out for another game. This is annoying for most of the parents especially when they are living in a small place or they are in enclosed spaces like cars. Using a lightweight plastic toolbox will solve the problem and you can carry it wherever you go. These toolboxes are available in bright colors and after purchasing them, you can cut the Custom Tool Box Foam as needed. 

If you want to get the information as how to cut the Tool Kits Foam to size please contact us or google foam cutting.

How to cut tool control foam. A step by step guide for cutting tool foam and the individual tool cut outs within your foam

Doing your own tool control foam cut outs may seem intimidating, although it shouldn’t be. We have prepared these instructions to help you cut your tool foam. You’ll be cutting tool foam like a pro in no time if you follow these instructions!

You will need the following tools: straight edge, tape measure, heat gun, utility knife. Optional tools that will make the process of cutting tool control foam faster include: plunge router, circular saw, hot knife, and carpenters square.

Step one: Take your measurements of your toolbox or workbench that you would like the tool foam to fit on or in. The goal is to not have space on the sides so measure to within 1/8”. 

Step two: Cut your tool control foam to the drawer size. You have three choices:

1)      The first is using your straight edge or square you can cut a template out of cardboard, plexiglass, or some other easy to work with material. Drill a hole in it and use a pin or other noninvasive item to hold the template in place while you cut the tool foam to your drawer size.

2)      Your second choice is to mark the tool foam with your desired drawer size and using your circular saw with guide cut a straight line. This is really only feasible if you have a good work surface. If your work surface is the ground, go with #1 or #3.

3)      Your third choice is to mark the tool foam with your desired drawer size and using your utility knife or hot knife cut a straight line with your straight edge or square aiding you in keeping the drawer square. 

Step three: You can cut your shapes out in a couple different ways, its up to you as what works best for you.

1)      You can use a sharpie and trace the tools on the tool control foam in their desired locations, once in their location use the hot knife, plunge router or utility knife to cut out the tools shape.

2)      You can use tracing paper to trace the tools, once traced you may lay the paper on the foam drawer, secure with tape, and cut through the paper and foam using your utility knife or hot knife. 

Step four: You will need to laminate the tool foam ½” layer onto the ¼” layer with no cut outs. You will want to practice on some scrap foam first. Heat the foam with the heat gun until it is tacky. Once tacky, quickly place against another piece of foam and hold momentarily. Within seconds the foam will be bonded. The principle is the same for laminating drawers only in this case you will be placing the top layer on the bottom layer and starting at one side heating up the foam in a sweeping motion from side to side while applying pressure to the top layer of foam creating a “sandwich” effect on the foam. Continue until you have laminated the drawer from side to side, apply pressure as you heat the top layer and smooth on the bottom.  

Step five: Place the tool foam in your drawer or in your tool control kit and insert tools. Your tool foam is now ready to use.

Organize your tools by creating custom foam tool inserts

People in maintenance environments depend on a wide variety of tools and products to get their job completed on time. This array of tools required coupled with the increasing requirements and reduced manpower in today’s workplace pushes a necessary gain in productivity per maintenance employee.

The challenge is finding ways to increase productivity, purchasing the right tools for the job is one way of increasing productivity, another is utilizing custom tool foam inserts.

Every minute a maintenance worker spends searching for a misplaced tool is a wasted minute. It is not uncommon for a worker to spend five or more minutes trying to find a tool, it is also not uncommon for a worker to travel to a jobsite on the facility to discover a tool he thought he had was not actually on his cart.

By using tool foam purchased in tool foam sheets or having it custom cut to his specific requirements enables the worker to have “at a glance” assurance that he has the tools needed to complete his task.

Consider this analysis, if the employee’s burden labor rate is $50 dollars per hour and he spends $5 minutes looking for tools for each task, that equates to $4.16 in additional cost. If that employee completes five tasks per day, the total daily cost of searching for tools is $20.83. In a five day work week it costs $104.16 which equates to $416.66 per month per employee and $5000 dollars per year per employee in lost productivity. 

The question this begs is, can you afford not to streamline your maintenance activities with tool foam?