Gridfinity and the Icon Tool Box, Likes and Dislikes 

Emily wanted to plug her brother 3D printing. He’s been very helpful getting the tool box organized. This is one of the projects that they are working on.

Hilarious!

Sure Peanut, I will come help you and Megan on our next visit. 🙂

We’ll try to put that together.

Hi Spartacus... This is Emily (the girl in the video) I will have my brother help answer your cost question as he is the one that printed them out for me. He has also been making different organizers for other Harbor Freight tool boxes and storage bins. I will have a video soon on my Vulcan welding cart and what we have done to organize that better as well. 🙂As you can see I am a big Harbor Freight and DeWalt fan. What are your favorite organizers from HF? I use to have several of the US General drawer organizers in our old tool box.

Spartacus, Thanks for the question. This is Emily’s brother, I 3d printed all the Neon Green organization she used in this video. The short answer to your question is “just under $54 in plastic.” I looked through my notes and I used 1.9 kilograms of material at about $28 for a 1 kilo roll. ($28 dollars includes the filament, tax, and shipping.) This cost estimate is the entire batch of stuff that I printed for her. There is not really a single shot in the video that captures the entire print run. For example, you can notice that she had some organizers in the Dremel drawer and some with the sockets. The long answer involves printer cost, electricity rates, FDM 3d printing learning curves, .STL file creation/locating, and machine run time. For example, the “Metric Deep Socket” tray she loads with sockets in the video at 3:45 is about $3.38 of filament (raw plastic). However, by the time I calculate electricity, run time, printer consumables, and my time. I would need to commercially sell this part for around $22.

@@EmilyPepperman harbor freight organizers… not many now actually. I use their Bauer packouts for some specific bolt assortments, they’re pretty good. I think there’s 2 drawer organizers and a pliers rack in use around the garage. I spent so much on organizing, tried several different options and brands from OEM Tools, Olsa Tools, Mechanics Time Savers, etc. I’ve actually settled on Ernst for sockets and pliers and Toolbox widgets for my wrenches.

@@woodspepperman9344 That’s an incredibly detailed breakdown, Thank you for taking the time to do that! I was excited when I saw just less then $54 in materials then the further breakdown leading up to $22 retail for the one unit you described tied it all together for me. I must’ve spent close to $800 on my organization endeavors for my toolbox. I’d really be interested to see what you come up with for wrenches, did you have plans to commercially offer gridfinity?

@@MrSpartanicus, We would love to help you out with any 3D printed projects (including Gridfinity). We can assist in the location of currently available files or potentially modify and custom make organization products for you. I just placed an order today for some filament to (more closely) match the Harbor Freight 20 bin storage organizers. I have designed a few products to help organize those as well. Let us know what you are looking for (other than the previously mentioned wrenches) and we are happy to help. Look out for Emily's Volcan Welding Cart review and the organizers I have designed for that as well.

Hey! You can probably find them on thangs or thingiverse. I believe you'll find the most variety on thangs, since that's where the original creator of Gridfinity put his files up. If you don't have access to a 3D printer, you might be able to use one at a library.

Very happy with the organizers. There were a couple small issues with missing sizes but I pretty sure that has been resolved.

@marcushudson8209 we have a website in development. I would be happy to put together a custom quote for you in the mean time. Let me know what you are looking for specifically or shoot me a PM.

We are finally part of the 1%. Thanks for the info. Ha!

Yeah that was a lame April fools joke