How Adam Savage Keeps Track of All of His Shop Hardware

From Adam Savage’s Tested.

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Photo gallery of Adam’s Sortimo contents: https://www.tested.com/adams-sortimos-2026

Every few years, Adam retakes stock of the over half million pieces of hardware stored in his workshop’s "battery": the 72 bins of Sortimo boxes that line one of the walls of the cave. In sorting through all of this hardware, he walks us through his inventory system that can work for anyone’s shop organization.

Shot by Adam Savage and edited by Norman Chan
Music by Jinglepunks

What’s in Adam Savage’s Sortimos:
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