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Re: Piece sorting (was: building exhaustion)
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lugnet.storage
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Tue, 11 May 1999 14:58:13 GMT
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On Tue, 11 May 1999 06:31:45 GMT, "Moz (Chris Moseley)" <moz1@ihug.com.au>
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> At the risk of sounding negative, these didn't work as well as I'd
> hoped. Perhaps I couldn't get the right ones - what I got were
> drawers/trays about 6-8" deep, 4" wide and about 3" high.
"Wider is better" (slogan from a advertisement)
> They stacked
> so I tried that. It worked after a fashion, but I decided that
> they really needed to be transparent. two reasons: you end up facing
> a big wall of them, and it gets dark really quickly if they're dark
> coloured plastic; and if you can see thru them it's both easier to
> mount them/stack them, and easier to see what's in the top/bottom ones
> in the stack.
We label each drawer. This probably speeds up cleanup even more than
building.
> My current ideal is a control console where the "desk" is octagonal
> and goes right round me, and I have a swivel chair. It's also raked,
> so there are trays flat, then at about 45 degrees, then vertical.
> That way I get the maximum number of reachable parts, and can have
> quite deep bins/drawers under the flat trays for high-volume parts.
> Of course, getting into or out of it will be interesting... I suspect
> one side will need to be the building area, and that will need to
> hinge out of the way for the egress (The egress is a very fussy
> creature :)
Hmm. Elevator chair? R2 magnetic lift?
Steve
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 | | Re: Piece sorting (was: building exhaustion)
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| Kevin Wilson (...) At the risk of sounding negative, these didn't work as well as I'd hoped. Perhaps I couldn't get the right ones - what I got were drawers/trays about 6-8" deep, 4" wide and about 3" high. They stacked so I tried that. It worked (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.storage)
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