Folding Small Parts Organizer for 1693EL

There's a moment in every job, usually about thirty seconds after you've removed the bolts holding a motor cover or a battery shroud in place, where you realize you don't know where you put them. The bolts are on the workbench. Or on the floor. Or in the cassette drawer you've been meaning to label. The 1693EL.3 Folding Small Parts Organizer is built around fixing that problem; a holder for plastic parts boxes that mounts to the stand column, pulls out over the bike when you need it, and folds away when you don't.

How it works

The 1693EL.3 holds the same plastic boxes Unior sells across its other parts-organization products, sized for screws, washers, spacers, springs, and the small bits that come out of an electronics housing. The boxes are not included with the holder; they ship separately so you can size the array to the work you do.

The mounting hardware is a 500 mm folding articulated arm, the same arm format used by the laptop holder and the tool tray. When you need the bin in the work area, you pull it out over the bike; the bin sits next to the work and the bolts go in by reach. When you're done, you fold the arm back against the column and the bin sits flush, out of the way of the next move.

The arm rotates 90° left or right, so you can position the bin on either side of the bike without re-mounting.

When folding versus fixed makes sense

If the bay doubles as anything other than an e-bike stand; full-suspension service, wheel building, frame swaps; the folding holder is the right call. The fixed-mount cousin (the 1693EL.9) sits permanently to one side of the column and is better for dedicated e-bike bays where the workflow doesn't change shape.

Specs

• Article number: 1693EL.3
• Foldable parts organizer for the Unior 1693EL Electric Repair Stand
• 500 mm articulated arm; rotates 90° left or right
• Compatible with all sizes of Unior parts boxes (sold separately)
• Compatible with both V1 (pre-April 2021) and V2 (April 2021 onward) 1693EL stands; the holder uses the column-collar mount that's unchanged across generations

Includes: parts-box organizer frame, 500 mm folding articulated arm, column-mount hardware. Parts boxes sold separately.

Built in Zreče, Slovenia

Unior has been forging hand tools in Zreče since 1919, and is the official technical partner of multiple World Tour and downhill teams. The 1693EL.3's parts-box compatibility runs across the Unior catalog, which is the practical benefit of buying organization from a tool maker that has its own modular parts-storage line; the boxes you order with the holder are the same ones that fit in the small drawers under the workbench you already own from Unior.

Pro tip from our mechanics

The folding-arm format is what makes this accessory worth its drawer-of-bolts replacement. A static parts tray on the stand column is fine until you need to roll the stand around or work the lift through its full range; the folding 500 mm arm pulls the bin out when you need it and folds it back the moment you don't. Pair the bin with the right base stand and the workstation comes together; the buying guide walks through the electric-stand decision the parts organizer attaches to: How to choose a bike repair stand →