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Re: Plano 3700 & Sterilite 66 qt - other recommended combinations?
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Wed, 12 Jan 2005 20:15:40 GMT
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In lugnet.storage, Brian Davis wrote:
   Just a FYI, for those of us on the small end of the sort/store spectrum. I
just discovered that 12 of the Plano 3700 boxes will stack very nicely in a
Sterilite 66 qt storage bin. I can now get much (most? I said it was small) of
my sorted collection in one or two of these 66 qt bins. And the room around the
edges can be used for 32x32 basplates.
   Anyone else discovered any of these nice packing combinations? I use the
Plano boxes mostly, due to having no dedicated build area (and three kids, one
under the age of one - the ability to pick up & deploy the collection & build
space in a few minutes is critical for me :-).

I use the Plano 3700 (I've noticed that they use this model number for both the
24 and 48 compartment models - odd) boxes too and I have a couple of 58 qt.
Sterilite bins.  I've never tried putting one in the other, though.  What I
would like to find is a slipcase of some sort for the 3700 boxes, something that
would allow them to be stacked, but pull out individually - like drawers.  Any
ideas on that?

--
Thomas Main
thomasmain@myrealbox.com



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  Re: Plano 3700 & Sterilite 66 qt - other recommended combinations?
 
(...) Actually, Plano makes something like that - at Menards here in the midwest, you can sometimes find large red plastic boxes that hold three of the 3700's & two of the smaller 3450's (which incidently also come in two slightly different forms: (...) (20 years ago, 12-Jan-05, to lugnet.storage)

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  Plano 3700 & Sterilite 66 qt - other recommended combinations?
 
Just a FYI, for those of us on the small end of the sort/store spectrum. I just discovered that 12 of the Plano 3700 boxes will stack very nicely in a Sterilite 66 qt storage bin. I can now get much (most? I said it was small) of my sorted (...) (20 years ago, 12-Jan-05, to lugnet.storage)

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