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I'm all about organizing small parts. About two years ago, we got
heavily into small pneumatics, and we have trays and trays of little
boxes of Legris push-to-connect fittings in all variety of sizes.
They're organized, but still a pain to get to a given one.

To whit: Our local ACE chain is completely remodeling a store -- ground-
up type of remodel. And when they remodel, they 're-fixture', as well.
They auction or junk out anything they're not using. If they're ugly,
the parts usually just go to a scrapyard.

The Senior Manager of the four stores is a friend, and called me to "look
at some stuff". When he calls, I go!

He gave me six racks of 84 bins of those "tip-bin" racks they use for
small parts. Each bin has a label slot, and all of them are servicable
-- a few minor cracks in some bins, which a drop of methylene chloride
fixes, and all of them covered several layers deep in yellow ACE price
labels, which naphtha will remove without softening the plastic. They're
even on roller-tracks, so you can build a 'curtain' of them in layers,
and slide the ones hiding others out of the way.

Each bin will hold 50-or-so of the largest fittings. We really needed to
get those parts more accessible. Yay! SCORE!

Lloyd
 
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