As a suggestion, take a look at plastic cutlery trays in the supermarket. They might not be ideal but they are compartmented in a number of ways

Brian

There's a proper non-slip liner for tool boxes made by Sealey and others – I've seen it on sale in Halfords. It's a thin rubber mesh that you cut to size. Often as not I just put a layer of thin bubble-wrap down. Not as good but much cheaper!

Dave

Edited By SillyOldDuffer on 10/12/2017 13:56:54

Ikea Variera drawer and shelf lining sheet is 50x150cm and costs £3.93.

HTH

Chris

These are quite good for storing taps, milling cutters etc.

http://mikesworkshop.weebly.com/cutter-storage.html

I found these in Portugal but I have since seen them in the uk.

I also found these for storing ER32 collets:

http://mikesworkshop.weebly.com/collet-tray.html

I am astonished that no-one has hinted that Tena Lady and Tena Men make liners for drawers.

Seasonal greetings

Tim

The non-slip rubber mesh liners are good. I've treated myself to one of those bright red multi-drawer tool cabinets on wheels, and only today have started cutting the liners. I'd just say watch the dimensions of the sheets, because the rolls of the stuff I bought led to a lot of strips of waste. For this job you really need material which is 2ft wide.

Carpet underlay is quite good – soft neoprene type material and has ribs to stop things rolling around too much. I’ve also made up liners similar to those Jason has pictured – 6mm mdf bases with narrow mdf strips glued on. Dies can be sorted with another bit of 6mm mdf with suitable holes drilled.

Another possibility is polyurethane expanded foam sheet (Styrofoam) – it would be very easy to run some u shaped grooves in it to hold taps, milling cutters etc.

As I put a plastic meat tray in the recycling I thought the ridges in the bottom would sort of stop random bits rattling around in them, but better still one ought to be able to re-form the shapes with a heat gun to be custom shapes. About 30 years ago there was an article in ME about vacuum forming sheet plastic.

Non slip "rubber" mesh is good. Keep the little plastic boxes that Milling Cutters come in. You will find all sorts of plastic trays, and boxes around the home that can be modified / recycled into tool storage. Just remove all traces of their former use to prevent any corrosion.

In the drawers of a big Roller Cabinet I have used cardboard, folded to make deep ridged "slots to store spanners, so that Whit, A/F and metric do not intermingle. Surprisingly long lived, too!

As Neil says, MDF can be milled / bored to make storage for cutters, Taps, and Dies. (The Tap and Die Company do just this for their boxed sets) Sometimes these can be combined with a soft underlay. Seven day pill boxes may be handy for some small items.

Your ingenuity will find other ways.

Howard