To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.storageOpen lugnet.storage in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Storage / 152
151  |  153
Subject: 
Re: Bucket surgery
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.storage
Date: 
Wed, 4 Nov 1998 19:26:18 GMT
Viewed: 
3221 times
  
Robert Farver writes:
Actually, yes you can.  Larry Pieniazek brought this up.  He mentioned that
the hardest part was getting the handles off without breaking them.  I tried
his method and it worked great.  Then I found if you have a good serrated
knife (and don't mind using it on plastic), you can cut the cross bar out
without removing it from the bucket. I now have tons of buckets, with handles,
without crossbars.  They are GREAT for sorting.

Oh yeah, I remember that now back on RTL. I want to try and use a hacksaw
though.

-Tom McD.

tfn, radiotitan@yahoo.com



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Bucket surgery
 
(...) I took another look at the buckets last night and I've decided not to spend the extra enegry in cutting out the bars, it only takes a second to rip off the handle and crossbar but it looks like it would take several minutes per bucket to saw (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-98, to lugnet.storage)
  Re: Bucket surgery
 
(...) I bet an ATLAS saw would work great for that, it's designed to cut plastic quickly without gumming up the saw teeth. I dunno if ATLAS still makes them but I have a 20+ year old one rattling around somewhere... (URL) I just dug around.. Grr, I (...) (26 years ago, 4-Nov-98, to lugnet.storage)

Message is in Reply To:
  Re: Bucket surgery
 
(...) Actually, yes you can. Larry Pieniazek brought this up. He mentioned that the hardest part was getting the handles off without breaking them. I tried his method and it worked great. Then I found if you have a good serrated knife (and don't (...) (26 years ago, 3-Nov-98, to lugnet.storage)

14 Messages in This Thread:





Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact

This Message and its Replies on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

Custom Search

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR