Tap & Die Storage Box

This is a storage box I made for taps and dies. I've seen various tap storage things around but they tend to only have space for a taper tap, a second (aka plug) tap and a bottoming (aka plug) tap. That leaves nowhere for spiral flute, spiral point, serial taps, fluteless taps and long series taps. To deal with that, I made my own. It only holds metric coarse taps, but the metric fine ones come out rarely enough that I don't mind rummaging in one big drawer. Antediluvian nonsense like BSF or UNC come out even more rarely so the same applies.

The outer was knocked together out of plywood and is a bit shabby really, but it does the job. The drawers were 3D printed to suit my collection of taps and dies.

This photo shows one of the drawers. The handle and the (embossed & two-colour) drawer label are dovetailed in. The drawer labels weren't a fantastic fit but they do the job - I think it might be because I printed them with a different (0.25 mm) nozzle size.

This photo shows a close-up of one of the drawers. The debossed text showing what's in each pocket is a bit scruffy, but it's readable.

This photo shows a close-up of the front of the drawers and you can see the labels and handles.

The bottom drawers hold tap wrenches and die stocks. Larger tap wrenches and die stocks live in a separate drawer unit, along with the imperial and fine pitch taps and dies.

The top two levels of drawers have smaller drawers to suit the smaller taps and dies. There's also a drawer with some thread gauges etc.

Although the design is rather specific to my collection of taps and dies, I've shared the models on printables.com. Included in the downloadable files are some STEP files of the drawers without the debossed text, so you can label the drawers to suit your tap collection (or tweak the dimensions as required).

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