Socket Rail
A flat rail with a peg for every socket, in rows you lay out. Hangs flush on keyhole slots and lifts off to take to the job.
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What it makes
A flat rail with one peg per socket, laid out as a grid you choose: one long row, or a few shorter rows. Each column is as wide as its biggest socket, so a mixed set packs tight.
The pegs tilt up 10° so gravity seats each socket. A flex tab on every peg clicks into the socket's own detent, and an optional disc magnet in the tip holds it when you carry the rail.
Hanging it
Keyhole slots go through the rail: push it over the screw heads, let it drop, and the heads sit in a recess below the front face. Lift and pull to take it off. Print the drill template to mark the wall.
There is a keyhole at each end and more evenly spaced between, no more than 150 mm apart, sitting between pegs behind the sockets. Want a plain front? Switch to blind keyholes, cut from the back only.
Printing it
- Print the fit test first: one peg and one keyhole.
- Socket too tight: raise the peg fit by 0.05 mm. Too loose: lower it.
- Print the rail back down, pegs up. No supports.
- PLA or PETG. Glue a disc magnet into each peg tip if you use them.
Questions
Which magnets?
Disc magnets: 4 × 2 mm for 1/4 inch, 6 × 2 mm for 3/8 inch, 8 × 2 mm for 1/2 inch drive. Either way up.
My sockets are bigger than the preset sizes
Measure the widest part of each socket and type the diameters in. The grid respaces itself.