How to Organise Your Milwaukee Packout: Insert Ideas for Every Setup

The Milwaukee Packout system is brilliant — until you open a drawer and everything has slid into one corner. Loose tools rattle, batteries roll around, and you spend the first ten minutes on site digging for a bit driver. The fix is simple: custom inserts that give every tool a home.

Start with the box you actually use most

Most tradies get the best return organising these three first:

• Compact Organiser (48-22-8435): the workhorse. Inserts exist for nearly every M12 and M18 tool — drills, impacts, soldering irons, rotary tools, jigsaws, grinders and more. Browse our Compact Organiser inserts.
• 2 & 3 Drawer Tool Boxes (48-22-8442 / 48-22-8443): drawers are where tools slide the most. Drawer inserts hold each tool snug, so nothing shifts when you wheel the stack over rough ground. See 2 drawer and 3 drawer inserts.
• Full Size Organiser (48-22-8430): ideal for battery storage and drill/driver combos. See Full Size Organiser inserts.

Sort your batteries first — it's the biggest win

Batteries are the thing every tradie loses track of. A dedicated battery insert turns a jumble into a power station: our 20-slot M12 hub, 5-slot M18 holders and combined battery-and-charger inserts mean you can see at a glance what's charged and what's not. Some of ours even have a hidden AirTag compartment, so if the box walks off site, you know where it went.

Match the insert to the tool, not roughly

A generic foam insert works until it doesn't — foam tears, absorbs oil and can't be reconfigured. Our inserts are 3D printed in tough PETG to fit specific tool models (down to the generation — a Gen 3 M18 impact sits differently to a Gen 4), so tools click in and stay put. PETG is heat-resistant and doesn't crumble in a hot ute.

Think in layers

The best Packout setups dedicate each box to a job: an electrical box (drill, impact, hole saws, bits), a battery box, and a mechanics box (sockets, ratchets, spanners — our labelled socket trays hold every piece). When a job comes up, you grab the box, not twenty tools.

All our inserts are designed and 3D printed in Queensland, made for Aussie conditions, and ship fast — free shipping on orders over $70. Browse the full range of Milwaukee Packout inserts, and if you can't find an insert for your exact tool, ask us for a custom design — it's what we do.