Sunday, June 29, 2025

Pegboard Does Not Spark Joy

This is pegboard.

Pegboard is quite possibly the most frustrating and least efficient way to store tools and other shop gubbins. It's 2-dimensional so you can only fill a planar surface instead of a volume, and the hooks and knobs and whatever else you stick in those holes have the most delightful habit of ejecting themselves out of their holes any time you dare even think about grabbing something off of the wall.

This sheet of pegboard was I believe originally one of those old hinged shop displays, possibly even from the back wall of a Radio Shack that would have closed more than a quarter century ago. But wherever it came from, it ended up screwed into the wall of my car hole, and I inherited it when I purchased this house.

So step one is to disassemble, which means removing these screws from the corners.

Hmm, those aren't torx, are they?

Well, this is where being Canadian comes in handy.

If it works, it works.

Now we can break down the parts and put them where they belong.

In the trash.

Goodbye pegboard, you will be soon forgotten and never be missed.

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