Phil, they look extremely rugged and would stack 8 feet high, if you had to. Nice idea.
For small parts, I use clear plastic shoe boxes - with press-on lids, they are reasonably strong and $2 each. I also have ones with locking lids, which are particularly nice.
j
I bought some boxes that fit that description at Home Depot or Lowes, but they were too flimsy (polypropylene, I think) with the covers off. I am using them for holding stuff like BNC cables and such like (I don't like ugly crap hanging down the wall, nor do I have that much wall space to spare).
The ones Phil recommended would be good in that application- I think they're completely rigid.
Best regards, Spehro Pefhany
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I don't think so, a little over a year ago i made a lifestyle change and lost about 90 pounds (almost 40 kilos). Thus it can't be strictly genetic.
too.
more,
are still cheaper than your empty ones :-)
about 4 USD ($).
On a sunny day (Sat, 05 Apr 2014 13:16:08 -0700) it happened josephkk wrote in :
Na, it is likely Phil said: Tape worms ;-)
40 kilos of crack?
Well, it's economics 1A - We'd all like to have the best, but the boxes Phil mentions cost $10 ea. As far as durability, I keep very heavy machine parts in the locking Sterilite 6 qt shoe boxes. As an example, a machinist's vise for a milling machine comes to mind. This is a solid chunk of hardened steel that weighs about 15-20 lbs. It's in one of these boxes that has the lock down ends. OK - I wouldn't mind dropping the box 3 feet or throwing it against the wall at that height. (3 feet to protect vise, not the box!) Extremely strong. I am saying that these boxes have proven handy in a machine shop environment for a myriad of small parts.
Another box worth a look is the Harbor Freight storage box:
What is handy about this box is that it has many storage compartments. I have a number of them for sorting small parts:
leds - many varieties laser diodes -ditto small drills - carbide drills er16 collets batteries machined parts etc.
I find these are superior to the "pull the drawer out" little drawer setups that e-workers often use, though I have a number of those as well.
I haven't used the storage boxes Phil recommends, but for many projects the 6 qt shoe box, even the cheaper snap-on lid type @2$, seems to fit the bill. For instance, I bought a small usb spectrometer recently, so that goes into one of these boxes while I get a serial port card for the PC.
As far as advantages, the 6 qt cheapies probably take up less room than the restaurant types. I have maybe 40 of the 6 qt, another 15 of the 18 qt and 8 of the Harbor types.
Helps keep the chaos down... j
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If i had those worms the whole time i would never have weighed enough to afford to lose that much. I have not introduced them in my lifestyle change. So much for your crack.
?-)
Do I detect a note of jealousy about your successful weight loss?
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How could i be jealous of my own success?
?-)
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