How do you organize all this turntable paraphernalia??

I have a beautiful antique side board that resides within a few feet of my equipment rack; all that crap is in drawers of the side board. One drawer has fuses, spare ICs for repair of vintage DD turntables, and the like. Another bigger drawer has the 20 or so cartridges not currently in use. Another has the bigger heavier stuff, like power cords, meters, spare tonearm mount boards, protractors, etc. Another has owners manuals for each TT and my CDP. In plane view on top of the side board, I keep certain select LPs and box sets, especially the Mosaic sets. Of course, I know where everything is. Of course.

This would give you something to listen to while performing maintenance.

My gear is located in a converted hallway linen closet and I left the top 3 shelves intact for storage (one shelf for HiFi stuff and the other two for folded clothing).

DeKay

What about a tackle "style" box (just an example from a quick Google)?

DeKay

@dekay 

I've been using that format for years, just difficult to find new releases for it.

I have a smallish box of approx' L10" x W8" x H3" local to the TT to house and protect items being referred to from dust.

The Box is a Far Eastern Carved Design and has been owned for as long as I have had children, so it is a Box that will be making very old bones with myself, as are the LP's. Sentiment gives the box a whole new value.

In another location on a shelving system, I have a very basic set of matched plastic clip lid boxes that are a formed with a variety of dimensions and a stackable design and are of a colour match to blend in with the room treatments. These do not look out of place and house all the bits to be buried but not forgotten, Cartridges, Valves, Connectors, footers. Since using this nice little selection of boxes, there is no need to rummage through cupboards looking for misplaced items with a value.

I wish I put an earliest built Phonostage in to one of these, that has not been found for a long time, the Blackgates are quite valuable and lost.

If one would like to be uber organised a list of parts contained could be taped to the concealed on the underside of a Box or Box Lid.

I have mirrors, record clamps, stylus brushes, record anti-static and multiple headshells/cartridges, level, screwdriver, tweezers etc. I also wouldn't mind having a rack to display what is currently playing.

You should count yourself lucky - my turntable power supply alone uses sine and cosine wave generators and a stereo power amp to drive the motor. The TT power supply includes MIT Oracle interconnects between the generators and power amp and MIT speaker cable power amp to motor controller and then a custom loom to motor.. Both generator and power amp also use MIT power cables. Try storing that tidily. Unfortunately the phase coherent cables can be clearly heard in the TT power supply -  you can't go back. The TT itself with supplied platform weighs around 140kg - at one stage I had it wall mounted - had to open the wall up and install internal laminated vertical beams to take the load. The original owner used a pair of Stax DA100M monoblocks to drive the TT motor so I did manage to lose one box.

The small stuff lives in an adjacent drawer - I only keep an antistatic brush and small dry paint brush ( for stylus ) on the TT plinth.

I'm using a decommissioned vintage wooden cigar humidor. Looks nice and blends in to the environment. There are a lot of different kind of humidors on the market, used ones as well. From small to big, from cheap to expensive.

Have a good day!

I keep everything I use routinely right on the counter next to the turntable. The set up gear is stored away in another room. I am debating if I should mount some of it an the wall. The SmarTractor is cool looking and would make an interesting conversation piece. I am going to make a walnut desk to match the décor and will probably but draws in it for turntable gear.  

@dover , I am speechless. What do you drive, a tractor? 

Mine are all over the place near the turntables. Best I could come up with😀

I installed a floating shelf with integral pull out drawer under my turntable wall shelf, seems to work well for all that stuff....on top of floating shelf rests my phono preamp. Unlike other formats, turntables/LP’s etc require quite a bit of extras...here are some links to a few, I own the one in the second link....

http://HBHJUAO Floating Shelve with Drawer,Rustic Wood Wall Shelves Floating Nightstand for Bedroom,Bedside Shelf Wall Mount Hanging Nightstand Brown https://a.co/d/7v1cl62

http://Floating Shelf with Drawer, Floating Nightstand for Bedroom - 16” Wall Shelf, Floating Shelf with Storage, Floating Shelf for Office Bathroom Kitchen Floating Bedside Table (Grey Wood) https://a.co/d/69tLheK

This one I also have....larger that the above.....

@mijostyn 

No just an all wheel drive Subaru - its great on wet roads. I use to have the original  Audi Quattro Turbo Coupe & S3 - can't go back to 2 wheel drive.

Nobody on this forum will ever understand how good my TT is because there was only ever 1 in the US. They were built to order in the late 70's and the critical material used is no longer available. The material used  (SPZ) was developed by Takai Labs in Japan for earthquake proofing buildings, but ultimately was too expensive to manufacture. Sugano ( Koetsu ) had one in his private home and Jonathan Carr has one. It makes the Micro Seiki 8000 & Techdas AF1 sound vague and murky with no pitch stability. If you google superplasticity and other properties of SPZ you will get an idea. The company also commissioned MC cartridges with one piece diamond  ( real not synthetic ) cantilevers and stylus each cut from a 2 carat diamond - designed by Yoshihisa Mori of Sony sound Tech. If you think the TT is crazy the matching speakers weigh 800kg each, and the recommended installation was to build your room after putting the speakers into position - last known price price US$450,000 in 2013.

@dover It would be a real treat to see all this in a Virtual Systems post.

@noromance 

I only own the TT. Cant afford the speakers.

i use a cool looking old tackle box from goodwill for extra/old carts, headshells, alignment tools, extra hardware etc. it sits on the shelf and looks pretty til i need it 

Everything I use goes into a drawer when not in use. Thank goodness I don’t have a record cleaning machine.  It would never fit into the drawer! 😃

+1 the Subaru, we are on our second outback and wouldn’t own anything else. Love my other cars (have 4). But drive the sube the most. 
  I to have the same problem with all the odds and ends of this audio hobby. Currently undergoing renovations on my house and I can’t find anything!!! I working on designing and building my own audio stand. It will have storage for all the little things we need. One good thing about renovating, I found cool things I thought I lost years ago. 

I use a cigar box for daily cleaning paraphernalia next to my turntable. Then I have a standing workstation set up at the “bar” with record cleaning machine with a couple draws dedicated to less frequently used stuff.

I also have been very pleased with using beautifully decorated used cigar boxes from high-end cigars. They are easily found online or sometimes used/vintage shops. Most have wonderful small clasping mechanisms.

The only two things I keep near the turntable is a stylus brush and an anti static record brush. Everything else is in a closet 4 ft away. My rack is already full of equipment, I don’t need another “box”. No place to put it…