@rddvet which milk crates are you talking about?
I may go back to milk crates, but it doesn't sort out transporting the BC and fins. I may end up having to talk to Edd and see if he'll give me a bulk discount on his reg bags. I'm not sure I would want to put more than a pair of regs in each bag though. I think it would be easier to see "doubles" on the bag and just not grab it, same with "sidemount", "stage", and "deco". He's got them running at $23 each right now which isn't terribly painful
The LM Milk crate isn't anything special it's just a regular milk crate except rectangular instead of square. I added some bungee. I had an issue with those yellow topped crates where I closed one up after I thought everything was perfectly dry. I opened it a month later and everything was covered in mold. Apparently something was just wet enough eventhough I left it open for 3 days to dry. The LM ensures everything is dry.
As for bags, I went and looked and took a photo. I got a cheap Scubamax one that my wife and I share for bailout regs. It still has plenty of room for more regs. I don't currently have stage or deco regs in there. My wife uses the Halcyon bag the most for her sm stuff. She has a sm set and a stage reg in it with tons of extra room. I use the old Poseidon one for sm, and it has 5 regs in it (looks like 4 in the photo, but one's hidden) and it's pretty full. Our BM stuff is in storage bins in the house since we don't use them often anymore. We also have a no name black reg bag we use for travelling that will hold 8 regs in it. It gets heavy as hell. All the bags look different, so we know what's in what bag. I've never grabbed the wrong bag for a dive weekend yet, though I triple check.
I drive to and from the dive site with everything assembled. This way there are no (or at least less) surprises when I get on site.
Clippables all live in a normal milk crate clipped off to bungees ties along the inside edges.
At home, I have Rubbermaid bins that divide gear by type. OC backgas kit (regs, plate, wing) RB backgas (same), stage regs, single tank, vintage stuff, spare parts, misc wings and SMBs.
If I must wait till I get wherever I’m going to assemble my kit, it’s easy to grab the right bin and toss it in the truck.
Lights and cameras live on a section of my bench for charging. Tanks live under the Rubbermaid bin storage shelves. Drysuits and undies go on the shelves too.
Top shelf holds stuff I don’t need to get into often. A few fresh 400g undergarments, a box or two of caths, some spare fins, habitat food tube, etc.
I’ll try to remember to post a pic in a bit.
We drove the 3 hours to cave country regularly with the regs on everything. It was perfectly fine for doubles, but I had an spg on 2 separate occassions get dinged enough to leak on stages. I'm also packing for 2 people, so things are a lot tighter in the car. I eventually gave up on leaving stuff rigged except deco bottle.