Order Out of Chaos? Get Your Nuts in Order...

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Made a start this afternoon on getting some semblance of order back into the chaos of the studio. Last summer, I scored the above storage unit in a roadside freebie, near the Co-op in Bishop's Castle. It's been sat under a pile of nuts, bolts, washers, etc., all still stored in their original purchase containers and taking up far too much valuable volume and floor space. Aside from those, there were also - still are - myriad random jars and tins of stuff lying around the place, largely unsorted. To give you an idea of the scale of the problem, the studio itself is six metres by four by three metres to the apex, and it's rapidly approaching capacity now.

Into the compact little unit pictured has gone the contents of half-a-dozen plastic boxes and a similar number of jars of various sizes. There is much more to be sorted: I can't locate my little stash of 1/4" Whitworth hex bolts [I need those for the old man's lathe] for instance, and much more besides. I can feel a few round trips to the council recycling depot coming on; more shelving installing, and a good deal of sifting and sorting done before I can truly get to grips with the place. As usual, I'll keep you posted...

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