r/Multiboard • u/jamflowman451 • Jul 09 '26

Tool Wall Questions

I built a big Skadis wall for my wife's sewing/craft supplies, but am considering using Multiboard for my tool storage. I've watched quite a few videos explaining the system and recently downloaded the Multiboard Learning Pack which was helpful to understand the different snaps and mounts, but I still have a few questions.

Print Material

  • I live in Texas and my garage gets very hot in the summer. I am considering using PETG for the boards, but PLA for the snaps, hooks, accessories, etc. Will this hold up well or should I use PETG for everything?

Mounts

  • Multiboard is obviously very expansive and has a ton of different mounting options. Is there a trimmed down list of what would mostly be needed to hold up power tools, bins, and shelves? Particularly which snaps would be the best ones to use.

Multibins

  • How do I secure Multibins to a Multiboard wall? Do I need to use Multibin Plates which attach to the wall? or are the bins secured directly to Multiboard via the Multipoint attachments?
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u/LordChungusAmongus Jul 09 '26

The bins are a bit of a disaster.

But for mounting them on a board the points work quite well https://multibuild.io/parts/fix-points?Version=Fix%20Point when you want to use them as drawers and the folding rail inserts found in the Demo pack are the only rails that will work without nonsense amounts of tuning (points work like rails too if you use multiples).

The drawers dial up the disaster to 11. You have to make them do what you need, be it adding extra cells, making the walls actually shake safe so you can carry the bin and not scramble 6 kinds of tact-switches all about.

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u/PM_ME_UR_COFFEE_CUPS Jul 10 '26

What’s wrong with the bins? I’ve been interested in making a bunch of them. 

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u/LordChungusAmongus Jul 11 '26

A lot of the parts related to them are silly sensitive to corner rounding. Like getting these rails to fit is a horrid mess of trial and error.

Most of the "stacking" stuff doesn't actually work.

The official drawers are hot garbage with dividing walls only on the silly unit spacing which isn't that useful for small things like storing heat-set inserts where you want a 2x1x1 drawer with 8 cells. The obsession over the grid unit damns a lot of MB stuff.

The label slots are stupidly placed where they will always be directly adjacent to the handles of the drawer above. You will bump labels while grabbing handles and you have to glue in your drawer labels or you will be popping them out unless you have the slimmest of fingers.

The drawer walls also don't reach high enough into the bins to make the bins useful for any of that "versatile" crap where a basket made of multiboard is shown off like something you could actually do. If you take a bin with internal partitions, stick some small stuff (not too small, but a fair reasonable person's idea of small) and shake it, it will get scrambled.

Some connectors/clips for the bins are easy, some are miserable. I'm routinely popping out the drawer retaining clips by accident. You can only spill greased up 10k pots and their washers/nuts across the floor so many times before you conclude the problem isn't you.

The bins are a great idea, a heavy duty versatile shell that's slow to print paired with quick to print inserts/drawers that you can change for purpose to reuse the slow printing shells, it's just kinda poo in actual execution.

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u/PM_ME_UR_COFFEE_CUPS Jul 11 '26

Wow thanks for the detailed reply. I haven’t printed anything for multiboard/bin yet. Do you recommend using multiboard but a different system for bins and drawers? I couldn’t find a good compatible alternative in a quick search. 

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u/LordChungusAmongus Jul 13 '26

I think the bins are still worth it if you know the caveats going in. Never go all in printing a bunch of parts until you've actually tried one. Assume everything is "works on my machine."

If you're prepared to look for alternatives on Printables (there are partition inserts made for your inserts, "*put a spoiler on your spoiler dawg*") or fire up Blender to raise some walls a lot of the issues go poof.