On the right, my old box for tiny drill bits. It's a plastic container from RS Components, which I saved from the bin in the 1990s. At the time I worked for the Ministy of Agriculture, and can't remember why it came my way.
It's done valliant service holding my collection of small drill bits. I usually fish around with a dial caliper to find the size I need rather than keeping them in one of those boxes with the non-sliding cover and marked places for each bit. It's easy to end up with loads of those with half the bits missing. For many of the jobs I do, a "near enough" bit will be fine anyway.
Sadly, the box has worn out. The hinge at the back, only a thinner bit of plastic, has finally given way. Red gaffer tape sort of works, but isn't firm enough to let the vestigal catch on the front do its job.
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I have loads of small drills, some live in the obligatory slidey box and the bigger ones that don't fit live in a tin, each one in it's own little zip-lock bag with the size written on it. The smaller sizes are bought in packs of ten.
There's another tin full of little bags for reamers, and each bag has a reamer together with the appropriate size drill. Saves faffing about looking for the right size drill.
I have a spare of those boxes that store bits by size. I saw it in a hobby shop with a good price on it and found when I got home that there were no drills with it.
I'll pass it on the next time you come to the Great British Train Show.
I remember grandparents in the '70's keeping all sorts of useful and mend-it stuff in empty flat tins like yours. It is such a shame that we haven't gone back to things being sold in metal tins since metal is far more recyclable than plastic boxes - and the boxes last a lot longer for hobbyists!
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