I just ordered another 8 each of these:
The lids are at
These things are indestructible, very attractive, and stack very well. Plus they're made onshore and don't smell of plasticizer. Make sure you get the real Carlisle ones and not the knockoffs.
I have probably 40 of them already.
Highly recommended.
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
-- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics 160 North State Road #203 Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 hobbs at electrooptical dot net http://electrooptical.net
anti-static?
You can get them in stainless steel for a couple of bucks more:
But most of the stuff I keep in them is already in antistatic packaging if needed.
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
-- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics 160 North State Road #203 Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 hobbs at electrooptical dot net http://electrooptical.net
I use white cardboard "Indestructo" mailers- 11" high x 4" x 8" deep (inside dimensions) from Uline. They fit on shelf units like binders, and I print out a "spine" label that has a title and a decent photo of the project for instant recognition. They fit on a shelf unit like binders. They don't hold all the stuff for every project, but most or all for most projects.
One nice thing is that they come flat and can stay flat until they're needed (and take only seconds to pop up).
Best regards, Spehro Pefhany
-- "it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward" speff@interlog.com Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com
Those look pretty good too, although you can't see what's inside, and they wouldn't take anything like the same punishment. (Life is a bit hectic round here at the moment--I may start tossing them around like the chimpanzees in the old Samsonite commercials.) (*)
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
(*) Yes, they were full-grown chimpanzees and not gorillas.
-- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics 160 North State Road #203 Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 hobbs at electrooptical dot net http://electrooptical.net
They're for all the completed projects that have accumulated.
The active ones tend to get spread out all over the place, with most of the parts in a courier box or two.
Curious:-
Best regards, Spehro Pefhany
-- "it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward" speff@interlog.com Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com
I have a few cheap knockoffs. (I didn't realize that they were knockoffs until now.)
destructo-Mailers
I have a ton of these in all sizes. They're the cheapest option of all (free) because many of my vendors use them to ship parts to me.
Yes, one needs to label them.
-- Don Kuenz
If you have a Costco business center, you can get them there.
On a sunny day (Wed, 02 Apr 2014 19:44:09 -0400) it happened Phil Hobbs wrote in :
Wow you payed real money, look on how I store those projects and parts:
I buy the icecream and get the boxes for free. There are more....
Yup, about $10 per project. Maybe 0.1% of the total cost, if the project is a small one. They really are beautiful, so it's well worth it to me.
If I ate enough ice cream to accumulate dozens of 8-quart boxes, my arms would be too short to reach my bench. ;)
Besides, over here ice cream doesn't come in sturdy reusable containers--it's usually in paper tubs. Some of the snow-cone type institutional ice cream used to come in plastic pails, but to eat that stuff, you've got to really want to.
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
-- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics 160 North State Road #203 Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 hobbs at electrooptical dot net http://electrooptical.net
Only thing I noted is the lid you posted won't fit the containers you posted. So if you buy any, don't just click, click, because you won't get what you want. Mikek
They're all 1/2 pan size, which is a standard. If you look at the "companion items" on the pan pages, you'll find that exact lid.
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
-- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics 160 North State Road #203 Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 hobbs at electrooptical dot net http://electrooptical.net
In that case, you could use the plastic containers with lids that Safeway uses for their Organic lettuce line. Not as robust, not as large, but sit side by side closer and have that very attractive price - FREE and contents good for you. ;)
Yes, I'm sure they have the proper lids, just didn't want someone order from your links and get lids that don't fit. I don't know what 1/2 pan size means, just wanted possible purchasers to note, the container measures 20 3/4 x 12 3/4 and the lid on you link is
12 3/4 x 10 3/8. Just trying to be helpful as you are. :-) Mikek
heck I just use 99 cent walmart shoe boxes for what that's worth.
The length dimension is in error--probably a cut-n-paste from a full size pan. A pan as large as quoted that would hold about 20 litres, not
9 quarts.Good catch though--I want you at my next design review!
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
-- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics 160 North State Road #203 Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 hobbs at electrooptical dot net http://electrooptical.net
On a sunny day (Thu, 03 Apr 2014 08:18:33 -0400) it happened Phil Hobbs wrote in :
Oh, that is also gov media manipulation, obesity is set by genes really, I buy a box like that every week, or sometimes every 2 weeks, and eat it too. and I am thin. These guys make very nice icecream, glow ball worming makes you want it more, was working in the garden today, mowing grass, HOT! in April..
Strange, anyways these are great boxes, and filled with icecream they are still cheaper than your empty ones :-) I just checked, bought a new box today, 2 Euro 99 cents, that should be about 4 USD ($).
That's on account of all the tapeworms. Trust me, if I ate like that, I would _not_ be thin.
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
-- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics 160 North State Road #203 Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 hobbs at electrooptical dot net http://electrooptical.net
On a sunny day (Thu, 03 Apr 2014 11:54:28 -0400) it happened Phil Hobbs wrote in :
Well its you genes.... Theory .. I have camped out in the wild with just some beans, water from a stream, ate hardly anything, and I was just as thin as I am now. They (the media) torture fatter people by denying them food (somw idiot in NY is now forbidding big sugar containing drinks?), making a bad image of them, it is all sales, stupidity, and bullshit. The tapeworms probably went for my old tape archiv, would explain why I had to copy it all to optical (your expertise!) media. :-) And politics, they need -anything_ to do (the wrong thing). been eating them icecream (from those) boxes since the eighties... :-)
None of those things are big enough for reels. ;-) ...just shipped two 16"x16"X10" boxes to our CM for my next build. ...and that's only half the parts (they already had the others from previous builds).
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