For this tool tray project I do not have my students sketch out their plans. Use whatever method you prefer, as with all the projects I use in my class I work with a fully dimensioned drawing. That plan can be in your head, a quick sketch on the back of a napkin, or a full fledged neatly dimensioned drawing. In the following steps I'm going to walk you through making this sheet metal tool tray.īefore you start constructing any project, you should have some semblance of a plan. If you are really enjoying sheet metal work and want to go a step further after you make a tool tray, try designing a full tool box for this tray to sit in! Of course, you can just use it to hold your tools as well but we have a large tool cabinet in our workshop, so I have to find alternative uses for them. They also work great to hold small bolts and parts when I have to fix one of our machines in the shop. I have several of them around my classrooms to hold pencils, rulers, scissors, or calculators. These tool trays are great to have around the house or workshop. If you are new to simple sheet metal work and are looking for some more beginner projects to start with, check out my other sheet metal Instructables where I detail how to make DOG TAGS, VISE JAW COVERS, AND A SIMPLE BOX. My students enjoy making this tool tray and it is one of the projects that former students always come back and say they still have theirs from when they were in high school. I only give the students just enough metal to make all the parts of the tool tray, which forces them to plan out their entire process before starting. I like this project because it makes the students read multiple sets of plans, use all their knowledge and skills from previous projects. This is the first multiple part project my students work with in class that they will have to assemble together. This is the last sheet metal project I assign in my level one manufacturing class.
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