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Re: Source for Akro-Mils cabinets?
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lugnet.storage
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Fri, 26 Jan 2001 03:59:44 GMT
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In lugnet.storage, Chris Phillips writes:
> In lugnet.storage, Eric Joslin writes:
> > In lugnet.storage, Eric Kingsley writes:
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> > > I know what you mean. The ones with the 3 huge drawers with smaller ones • one
> > > the side are nice for certain things but often the large drawers are too
> > > large.
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> > And the one with all small drawers is nice too, but often too small.
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> > > I just wish
> > > they had a configuration with all medium sized drawers.
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> > Akro-Mils does make these. That's what I'm looking for.
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> I could use some of these. All of my Akro-Mils drawer units are either the
> 23-drawer or the 36-all-too-small-to-use variety. I definitely prefer the
> cabinets with the larger drawer sizes. I currently have a lot of empty
> small-size drawers, and not nearly enough medium- and large-size drawers for
> some of my overflow storage.
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> I was recently gazing at my sorting bins deciding that I could stand to add
> six more of the 23-drawer units and a pair of 36-drawer units. However, if
> cabinets with all mid-size drawers were available (18-drawers?) I would leap
> at the chance to score 8 or 16 of them.
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> > > I actually wonder if it would be worth
> > > our while to contact Akro-Mils directly to see about a large wholesale • order.
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> > Beleive it or not, this is something I was thinking about a short time ago... • I wondered how much we would have to order at once....
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> > Maybe if there are enough NELUG folks who want such drawers, we could • actually
> > do it.
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> Wal-Mart currently sells the 23-drawer and 36-drawer units for just under
> $11 apiece. ($10.97, IIRC...) So if Akro-Mils can compete with that price
> on a direct order, I'd definitely take some. Also, since I have never seen
> the 18-drawer unit at Wal-Mart, I'd definitely like to find an alternate
> supplier.
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> I also once found some of these units at the soon-to-be-demised Bradlees
> department stores. At the time, they were a few pennies more expensive than
> at Wal-Mart. However, if you were to find a stash of these on 70% clearance
> at Bradlees, you'd be in pretty good shape. (If the clock hasn't already
> run out for "Mrs. B.", I mean.)
I have one of the 18-drawer units from a purchase more than 10 years ago from
where I don't remember (the gray of the cabinet was lighter back then), and I
have been looking to get some more for the same reasons. I tried last year to
order them at a hardware store that actually had them listed in a catalog, but
they never showed up (good I did not pre-pay). I think they were available to
the store as either four or six units because I asked for one 11-drawer unit
(before I found them at Wal-mart) and quite a few showed up the next week. This
particular hardware store sold the units individually for about $23 but I don't
know what the wholesale price is.
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| (...) After posting I checked a catalog from Akro-Mils that I requested and received last year from the company, it's a glossy four-color affair dated 12/99 in the code at the back, and on the two pages devoted to the storage centers we are talking (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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| (...) I could use some of these. All of my Akro-Mils drawer units are either the 23-drawer or the 36-all-too-small-to-use variety. I definitely prefer the cabinets with the larger drawer sizes. I currently have a lot of empty small-size drawers, and (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.storage)
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