Spare parts storage... What's yours

[Scarlett Pistol]

After getting a few CZ's and working on a few for friends I have a stash of spare parts. They were just in CGW bags stuffed into an old Berry's box, but that was not effective. Snagged a two sided little container at the Home Depot and got things organized. After a good 12 hours of this sitting and doing nothing but staying effectively organized I think it passes as acceptable.

What do you all use for storing spare parts? Do you like yours portable or stationary? Any other lessons learned from the vets?



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[pewpew4life]

I just bought the spare parts kit from CZC. It looks pretty much the same as what you've got going on. The parts kit was a little pricey, but I just replace the items as needed now and it's organized and fully stocked.

https://czcustom.com/cz-parts-all/spare-parts-sets/sp01-shadow-spare-parts-kit.html


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[Scarlett Pistol]

I just bought the spare parts kit from CZC. It looks pretty much the same as what you've got going on. The parts kit was a little pricey, but I just replace the items as needed now and it's organized and fully stocked.

https://czcustom.com/cz-parts-all/spare-parts-sets/sp01-shadow-spare-parts-kit.html


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Very nice! I have a few spare parts I actually need to keep stocked... Yours is probably better for that purpose than my actual parts...

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[SlvrDragon50]

  all those hammers

[Scarlett Pistol]

all those hammers

Yeah.... About that... Not sure what to do with the hammer grave yard.

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[SlvrDragon50]

all those hammers

Yeah.... About that... Not sure what to do with the hammer grave yard.

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Give them to your kid to make hammer art? [emoji23]


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[Scarlett Pistol]

all those hammers

Yeah.... About that... Not sure what to do with the hammer grave yard.

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Give them to your kid to make hammer art? [emoji23]


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[emoji48]  Now you have some great ideas! I was thinking of trying to modifying one or two and see of I can tune them. I often hear it is tough to do, but outside of kid art I've got nothing else to do with them!

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[M1A4ME]

I have some stored in an old fishing lure box (sort of like what you show) and more in empty coffee containers.

I've changed out some perfectly good (new) parts to install some CGW parts and I just use the same bag, use a sharpie to write the part description and for what pistol and then stuff them in the coffee containers.  The outside of the containers then have more sharpie writing like "CZ 75", "P07/P09".

I don't know when I'll shoot one pistol enough to wear something out or break it.  I've just got to stop buying these darn things.

[Earl Keese]

I use a similar segmented container for spare parts. OEM take off parts are bagged and labeled with the s/n of the gun they came off of. If I decide to sell the gun later I can return it to almost original.

[Joe L]

SP--that is too organized and logical for me. 

I start with a small baggie, usually the ones that the CGW or CZ parts come in.  Then I add tape labels to the parts I remove from the gun and put the factory parts in the CZ CGW baggies as I replace them or screw them up.  The individual parts baggies go in to quart freezer bags with the gun model written on the outside.  Those baggies go in to a larger baggie, which are thrown in to a large tub on the floor of my shop. 

Finding a 75B detent requires a large table or car hood, good lighting and 30 minutes.  Sometimes I put everything back in the crate when I'm done, sometimes I don't. 

The good thing about this method is that it refreshes my memory on what all parts I really have in the shop.  The bad thing about this method is that most of the time, I don't need the refresher, I need the part! 

Joe 

[whitelotus9]

Have any of you taken the time to enter the part number, description, quantity, firearm model, etc. into a spreadsheet so that you can quickly identify what parts you have for which firearm?  Knowing you have a bunch of parts in a box over in the corner of your shop doesn't help to find a given part you may be needing NOW...

[Joe L]

Have any of you taken the time to enter the part number, description, quantity, firearm model, etc. into a spreadsheet so that you can quickly identify what parts you have for which firearm?  Knowing you have a bunch of parts in a box over in the corner of your shop doesn't help to find a given part you may be needing NOW...

Nope.  Where is an intern when I need one?

If I had time to inventory my stuff, I'd have time to clean my pistols!

Joe

[whitelotus9]

So start with one box and when you've finished with it, mark it to show it's been inventoried then go on to the next box...and the next...  If you have a tablet you could bring the spreadsheet to the shop to make it easier. 

[Scarlett Pistol]

So start with one box and when you've finished with it, mark it to show it's been inventoried then go on to the next box...and the next...  If you have a tablet you could bring the spreadsheet to the shop to make it easier.

While I jumped up a level from Joe's strategy lol, I'm not in need of that level of organization. If I were running a business or had a lot more pistols then I would. My next step is to save up and order spare parts of the OEM,  CGW,  and CZC stuff that is more prone to wear. Hammer springs, firing pin Retaining pins, trigger return springs, etc. But even then, I'm not running a big enough operation for digital inventory.... Yet 

[SlvrDragon50]

Yeaaaaa. I need to organize my parts right now. I just cram everything into a little organizer like yours. The GPS backpack I got was nice to help in that organization for on the go, but I am missing a lot of spare parts that I should carry.