Kaizen foam is WONDERFUL. Thanks for doing a segment on it. I have a ton of HF parts storage cases with Kaizen foam. The cases have a dedicated purpose, such as; wrenches, sockets, Kregg screws, LR32 Sled, router bits, door/ drawer mounting jigs. and many more. Kaizen foam inserts should be a art of every shop. One of the things I d is to buy some of the thin rubber mats that come in 12' x 12' size and in many different colors. The mats sit at the bottom of the box with the Kaizen form cutout on top. That way I get a color reference to the missing tool as well. The other Warren from Caldwell Idaho.
Totally trick out all my systainers. Sliding van door opens, along the back of the partition is a 32” drawer slide, shallow drawer. In the shallow drawer is a xxl 237 festool systainer, 2 layers of the hard pick and pluck epm foam I think it is. Got it from tool nut. 7 of my most used drills perfectly placed in there. No rattles, the thing slides right out and locks in place or slides back and locks back in place. Another drawer 24” wide 76” deep from the back driver side. There is shelving above this, with more systainers. The drawer will cantilever 55” from the back of my van. Got the csc sys there now perpendicular to the drawer.
I was thinking of buying the super large systainer for some of my longer accessories but wasn’t sure how to completely secure them, so this is a great how-to (as usual).
I really want to do this stuff. But I always end up buying the next tool first. But…. I really like the idea of being able to organize stuff and keep it all at hand.
Kaizen Source has some sandwich colors but sadly not green. I picked up a green insert about a year and half ago, hopefully not discontinued... Having the color pop in the cutouts makes the missing stuff even more noticeable!! :)
I don't think that word means what you think it means: Kaizen is a Japanese portmanteau meaning: change good. Kaizen is an approach to creating continuous (quality) improvements based on the idea that small, ongoing positive changes can reap significant improvements. Typically, it is bottom up approach based on cooperation and commitment and stands in contrast to approaches that use radical or top-down changes to achieve transformation.
I've repeatedly looked at using Kaizen over years and have rejected the idea every time. I'll probably continue to do that. To me it seems too expensive, takes too much time to get it just right, and then doesn't really have all that much flexibility if you change your tools in some way. Yeah, if you do it right it's great without a doubt. I'll just stick with drawers with tools which are less organized but where I can change what's in it and how it is arranged - and allow things to overlap if needed. Give me lots of space, time, and money and maybe I'll do Kaizen because it really is great stuff. But even then I might just start going down to Harbor Freight and get their Apache boxes and use those for most stuff. Yup, I don't doubt I have it wrong and should change my attitude as well.
I know what you mean, but for the sake of practicality, if you start going larger you're taking up more room than what is needed. It starts to defeat the purpose of organization. With those cutters tucked inside of the drawers, I don't think they're going anywhere.
