
If you find that you have the need to remove lots of components from your completed aircraft—say taking the control surfaces off for painting—run out and find a compartmented storage container (Harbor Freight usually has these on sale) and make a map of all the hardware that you’re taking off and storing.
Put washers, spacers, and nuts on in their relative positions, and take a picture before you take things apart—hinge points especially will have a specific stack-up of washers that are unique to each plane, and each hinge, so keep them in order! Then store each little assembly in its compartment. This will make reassembly so much easier, and you won’t be duplicating the work you did to figure out the spacing the first time.


I took this one step further. I have two boxes with labels like you show. One is for the interior of my Glasair, one for the exterior. They are designed specifically for the condition inspection and will hold all of the removed hardware. Of course they get used for other routine maintenance as will.
For non-routine disassembly, I do, of course, repurpose the pre-labeled bins as necessary.
I have made one or two of these for every airplane I have owned and give them to the new owner as part of the sale.