Not a new tool, but this seemed like the best place to post this in case it is of interest to anybody else
Most of my sitting down work is done on my Murphy bed style table saw table. It’s hinged at the wall with two legs away from the wall. When you fold it up, the legs are sticking out about 9 feet high so they’re not in the way.
I don’t use the table saw much anymore, but I sit down there because the height is good when I sit in a chair and work on smaller stuff
Well, I have one of those Harbor Freight magnetic bars, right across where I sit, and then I have a couple of soup cans drilled into the legs. The soup cans are on the inside side of the leg, and attached loosely with a screw, so when I fold the table up, they just swing down and dump everything..
Well, obviously, I keep that dozen screwdrivers and whatever that I use all the time right there on that magnetic bar. And obviously, I knock the bigger ones down with my knee when I’m sitting down and standing up. So here’s what I did.
I just took a piece of 2 x 4 scrap about 18” long, and I screwed it below and inside the cross brace that holds the magnetic bar. Then I drilled holes downward at a 30° angle more or less so I can insert the screwdrivers there and they won’t wobble out, but they’re still at my fingertips.
Yeah, no comments on the mess are needed. I got in a very bad habit of just dropping things when I was done with them when my legs were messed up and I couldn’t walk. That went on for five or six years. The only reason it’s so picked up and clean now in the picture is because I’ve had my mobility back for two or three years now, and I’ve cleaned up the big mess….
