collet storage ideas?

What about being wooden prevents painting a ring around the ones that get used 10x as much as the others?

Other than needing to avoid chip embedding I haven’t had any issues with wooden holders causing me rusting like others here have mentioned, but most of those end up soaked with cutting oil.

I do really like that wooden collet holders are quieter than sheet metal ones. Seems silly, but if I’m the only one working it’s actually pretty quiet if the spindle isn’t on.

Wood? Nothing, in fact that offers easier choices. That set was felt pen. My remark highlighted combining two hacks. Wood also is lesser (used to be) investment of material.
Chips, not so much an issue. Use big upolstery tacks as feet, replace the cover, and place a safer distance away.

use a drying oil like boiled linseed or danish oil and cutting oil wipes off wood. as to color coding, I used the little round stickers you can get at the dollar store to mark my S&D pattern reduced shank twist drills, guess it wouldn't hurt to include a pic of that...

FWIW. I'm fond of storing them in drawers, just to keep them clean.

My first effort at 5C storage had parallel rows, but it's possible to pack more in with staggered rows. Room to get ones fingers in to pick them up is all that's needed.

Also pix of Wade collet racks. The factory racks were cast aluminum and didn't hold many, even though there was much more room on the door(s). I like a full set at each machine, so fabbed a few out of Al angle with endplates and a lot of cleanup.

My absolute favorite is the racks for the 98 which uses 22J collets, otherwise known as f****ing monsters. Full extension drawer slides make these very handy.

And racks for various collets, milled from some phenolic that came almost free at an auction.

But of course, I still have those flimsy MSC (and worse) sheetmetal 5C stands for overflow. I never, ever have enough collet storage...

stainless chilli popper racks from Amazon work really well for ER32 collets

It looks like the outter 2 rows would bottom out on the "foot".
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Our bailers use large sheets of Nyloil, oil impregnated Nylon. When we replace them I save the old sheets and make all kinds of stuff. Here is an example of a compact collet holder. Holds just about all I ever use. Inch,metric ,hex ,squares and R8 metric. No rust to worry about.

Here's a compact holder made out of Nyloil, oil impregnated nylon. Our bailers use large sheets as wear blocks. When we replace them I save the old ones and make all kinds of stuff out of them. 5C round ,hex, square ,metric and R8 metric. Just about all the common sizes I use. The upper drawer has an ER40 set with R8 ,hex and square holders.