CountyComm Food Grade Tins and Silicone Parts Trays: Small Parts Organization Done Right

Introduction

Small parts have a way of taking over a drawer, a tool bag, or a workbench. The usual fix is an empty candy tin, and that works up to a point. CountyComm has built a more serious version of that idea: food grade metal tins with a much sturdier build, plus a growing system of color-coded inserts. Alongside them sits a simpler product, a low-profile silicone parts tray that solves a different but related problem. Both are inexpensive, practical, and easy to recommend once you know what each one is for.

CountyComm Food Grade Metal Tins

The obvious question is why not just use an Altoids tin. The answer is build quality. These tins are noticeably heavier duty, with a solid hinge design and a firmer closure than the thin, easily bent lid you get on a candy tin. They are also slightly deeper, and CountyComm makes a larger size if you need more capacity. The small tins sell for around $4.50 and the larger ones for around $6.50 when not on sale.

What turns the tin from a simple container into a system is the range of inserts. These foam-like spacers come in glow-in-the-dark, bright orange, and zombie green, and some versions are designed to hold small bits. Because there is plenty of clearance in the compartments, you can also drop a small bit ratchet inside and build your own compact kit.

The inserts cost between $3.50 and $4.50 depending on size and color, with the glow-in-the-dark options at the higher end.

Choosing an Insert

The glow-in-the-dark insert makes it easy to find small parts in the dark, which sounds like a gimmick until you are working under a desk or in a dim gear bag. The bright orange and zombie green options are easy to spot in a cluttered drawer, and the bit-holding orange insert turns the whole thing into a genuinely useful micro tool kit.

If you already use candy tins for backups and small items, the inserts alone will not fit properly in them; the lid will not close. Once you commit to the system, the proper CountyComm tin is the sensible base, and it even comes with a cage number if that matters to you.

CountyComm Silicone Parts Trays

The silicone parts tray is the simpler product but arguably the more universally useful one. It is small, low profile, and has a decently grippy texture, so it sticks to surfaces and keeps parts from rolling away. CountyComm offers them in several colors including khaki, orange, zombie green, glow-in-the-dark, and battleship gray, priced at around six dollars on sale, down from nine.

The use case is any project you will not finish in one sitting. Waiting on ordered parts, letting paint dry or glue set, mid-repair: drop everything into one tray, put it on a shelf, and pick up exactly where you left off. It works like a roll cart in a shop, just scaled down to desktop size.

Building a Small-Scale Organization System

Because the trays are low profile, they stack neatly, and color coding lets you dedicate a tray to each project or parts category. Combined with the tins and their inserts, you end up with a coherent small-scale organization setup rather than a pile of mismatched containers.

Conclusion

If you already carry a candy tin, the CountyComm food grade tins are the more durable, better-closing upgrade, and the insert system is what makes them worth going all in on. If your problem is unfinished projects and scattered hardware, the silicone parts trays are a cheap, effective fix. Neither is a big investment, and both make small parts noticeably easier to live with.