Best small parts organizers

Forty-four drawers in two sizes, with every dimension published: a 19.5 by 7 by 15.5 inch cabinet, large drawers at 6.87 x 4.31 x 2.12 in and small ones at 6.87 x 2.12 x 1.62 in. The mixed sizes are the point — the large drawers take the awkward things a fastener cabinet normally cannot, and the cabinet stacks on molded grooves or hangs on a wall.

No weight capacity is published, which is universal here and still worth knowing. The drawers are plastic and flex when overfilled, the carcass is 7 inches deep so it wants a shelf rather than a bench edge, and opaque drawers mean labeling is not optional.

The small one that does everything properly: 10.5 by 6.5 by 8.5 inches, drawers published at 6 x 2.22 x 1.56 in, dividers molded into the cabinet rather than supplied loose, keyhole slots for wall mounting and rear stop tabs so a fully pulled drawer does not empty onto the floor. Made in the USA from high-impact plastic.

Sixteen drawers will not sort a garage — it is a bench cabinet for the fasteners you reach for weekly, not the whole collection. Drawers are 1.56 inches deep, nothing bulky goes in, and there is no weight figure.

A laser-welded steel cabinet rather than a molded plastic one, 23.2 by 8.5 by 34.4 inches, with 75 ABS drawers published at 8.4 x 3.6 x 2 in and adjustable dividers in each. Those drawer dimensions are the most generous here: 8.4 inches long takes bolts that will not lie flat anywhere else on this page.

It is four times the price of the plastic cabinets, no weight capacity is published despite the listing describing increased load-bearing construction, 34 inches tall needs a dedicated spot rather than a shelf, and 75 drawers is a labeling project before it earns its keep.

Sixty-four identical drawers at a published 6.87 x 2.12 x 1.62 in, in the same footprint as the 44-drawer cabinet. If the job is screws and nuts sorted by size — one thread per drawer, nothing else — more compartments of one size beats a mixed set, and this is the cleanest way to get them.

One size only means nothing taller than 1.62 inches has a home, so the hose clamps and connectors end up somewhere else. It costs more than the mixed 44-drawer cabinet, publishes no weight figure, and 64 labels is a genuine afternoon.