Necessity is the mother of invention....in my shop. :)

[John Schmidt]

I have a collection of hacksaw blades and all were laying loose in one of my tool chest drawers. Every time I opened that drawer, they slide all over and the drawer contents would get all tangled up in them. I finally decided to do what I'd done with my shrink tubing collection and made the blade holder as seen in the picture. When done, I used some Flex Seal glue and stuck it to the side of my grease gun holder and it's all right there mounted on the tool box. Just used a scrap piece of 3/4" PVC with an end cap glued on, cut the PVC a bit shorter than the shortest blade.

First picture shows the final work.


With the end cap, I had to cut a notch on one side so it will lay flat on the side of the gun holder.


My shrink tube holders. The left one is for smaller sizes, the top half sits loosely on the joint you see midway down. If a piece gets too short to stick out the top I just lift off that top half to access it. When a piece is too short for the bottom half, I have a trough I lay short pieces in. The trough is simply another piece of 2" PVC cut in half with the ends capped, all are wired to the steel shelving frame as you see. The duct tape protects my legs from deep scratches where the safety wire was twisted to fasten the holders in place....done after the fact I'm sorry to say.

[Avanti]

That works great for TIG welding rod too.

[cookiedough]

I use white PVC with 2 screws thru each with a 5 gallon bucket to hold straight up my ice fishing poles, works well and usually avoids more tangled lines, not all the time though, but helps.   My old high school biology teacher who ice fished gave me the idea building an ice fishing bucket pole holder more intricate way back in the 1980s.  He built a rod holder out of wood for his poles and put them on the outside of the 5 gallon bucket but prefer the inside of the bucket just in case the poles POP out of the PVC will not get lost.

[Patrick]

You can just drill a hole thru one side of the pipe large enough for the head of carriage to fit thru. Then drill a hole opposite that holds the carriage bolt head tight.  Then bolt the pipe/holder to something.