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Died and gone to heaven!
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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