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Re: Brick sorting and 4L Ice cream pails
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Wed, 15 Sep 2004 00:12:17 GMT
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G'Day
I find you need to 'haunt' various $ stores, once in a while you can come
across fairly large containers for a buck.
Cheers
Oliver
Play well!
or rather Sort Well!
"Rob Antonishen" <rob.antonishen@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:3644709b04091408105fedc8ca@mail.gmail.com...
> I was at Dave K's a couple of weekends ago and saw he sorts out his
> bricks (mainly) using 4L square ice cream pails (like Chapman's comes
> in). I like this, because they are a nice size, and fit very well on
> shelves (as they are square).
>
> Now most of my blocks are just dumped haphazardly in a variety of
> (big) Rubbermaid bins, with a few Plano cases for the smaller parts
> (mini-fig, accessories, technic bits and pieces) that I get really
> anal about, but I've never gotten around to sorting them out, partly
> because I never wanted to drop a great deal of cash on bins.
>
> After my kids and I ate half a pail of Dave's ice cream in a valiant
> attempt to provide him with another sorting bin, I figured while this
> is a great idea, I don't have the constitution to consume the 25ish
> pails I would need for myself, and figured there had to be a better
> way.
>
> After-all, if Chapman's can buy these things and sell them full of ice
> cream for 5 bucks, the pails must cost them significantly less than
> that. Looking at the bottom, I see they are made in Canada by Ropak
> (Linpac) (who have a really crappy web-site. by the way).
>
> I called the toll free number and got the local distributer (Hamilton).
>
> I am still waiting for the details, but a ball park minimum order of
> brand spanking new, nice clean (with lid) 4L square food grade retail
> packaging HDPE pails would be about 250 (1 palette) for around $1.50 -
> $2 per pail.
>
> Now I don't need 250 pails, and don't want to be out of pocket for the
> $500 I'd need. So before I go any further investigating this, would
> anyone in RTLToronto also be interested a group purchase of these
> types of containers for that kind of price?
>
> How does it compare with other (retail) containers that people have • purchased?
>
> -Rob A.
>
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