I'm thinking about making a hangar for the 4-5 cordless tools I usually use in the shop and perhaps a charging station.
Anyone have any good designs, comments about usability that they have encountered, experiences?
One example from the internet. Seems un-necessarily complex to me. Why does it need the separators? to keep the tools from twisting? If stored up high and out of the way it will be hard to see the lights on the charger which are aimed at the ceiling. And even to put the batteries into the charger,
Should you make the bays to store tools with battery attached or with the battery removed?
All my tools share the same battery packs but I have them in two different height/capacities. I'm thinking of a shelf for loose batteries (instead of attached as in the example), to save some vertical height. Does that make sense? Or not?
Tilting the charger so that you can see the lights? Or Charger vertically mounted on a backboard (it has keyhole slots) so you can see the lights; the batteries would then plug in horizontally but there's enough friction to keep them in.
Some plans have the motor on top, some have the tool hang by the battery base. This one shows them hanging both ways. Since my tools all share the same battery and therefore battery base design I'm thinking hang by the base. Esp. since one is a right angle slim drill that can't hang from the motor side.
More examples attached
Anyone have any good designs, comments about usability that they have encountered, experiences?
One example from the internet. Seems un-necessarily complex to me. Why does it need the separators? to keep the tools from twisting? If stored up high and out of the way it will be hard to see the lights on the charger which are aimed at the ceiling. And even to put the batteries into the charger,
Should you make the bays to store tools with battery attached or with the battery removed?
All my tools share the same battery packs but I have them in two different height/capacities. I'm thinking of a shelf for loose batteries (instead of attached as in the example), to save some vertical height. Does that make sense? Or not?
Tilting the charger so that you can see the lights? Or Charger vertically mounted on a backboard (it has keyhole slots) so you can see the lights; the batteries would then plug in horizontally but there's enough friction to keep them in.
Some plans have the motor on top, some have the tool hang by the battery base. This one shows them hanging both ways. Since my tools all share the same battery and therefore battery base design I'm thinking hang by the base. Esp. since one is a right angle slim drill that can't hang from the motor side.
More examples attached
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