And much, much more! It's very useful to be able to pull out what is needed in a minute to keep up project momentum. That's what gets things done.

Yeah, this was a great project. I did it a few years back and had acquired three coffee cans full of fasteners and smaller stuff. I disassembled a car last year so plenty of really good stuff to go through.

First off, it's all gotta be cleaned up and picked through. Some just gets washed in home-made cleaner and then lacquer thinner and some needed hand scrubbing as well. I use a mix of, roughly, 1-part laundry detergent, 2-parts water and 3-parts mineral spirits. Rinses off well in hot water. That's hours of fun.

Then sorting it all. Lots of nuts and bolts and washers to pick through. Then there's all the clamps and plugs and miscellaneous small doodads that I'd tossed into the cans.

The big cabinet is for 8mm and larger stuff. Screws and 6mm and smaller in the smallest cabinet and then odd stuff in the middle-sized one.

There are some new fasteners in there as well. Especially those all-metal lock-nuts that Porsche favors as they wear out over time. I find that I can run low on 8mm nuts and washers and the bolts for the exhaust flanges, as examples.

 

Now that is nice...

 

Bravo Glen.

That's a sight to behold.
I may try that mix to clean next time....unless it's trademarked

 

Nope. A public domain formulation. Use nitrile gloves as the latex and vinyl soften.

 

Damn, I wish I could find time to get all my small parts sorted.
Åke

 

Yeah... It's nice to have all those bits ready to go and was a good reminder of what I've got on-hand.

I wanted it done before I start my next serious project. There's a dirty engine on the stand.

 

Great time to get them all professionally cleaned and plated