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Re: Drawers vs tilt-bins and scratching?
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lugnet.storage
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Sat, 19 May 2001 20:00:35 GMT
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"Suzanne D. Rich" <suz@baseplate.com> writes:
> Personally, I find the pull-out drawers maddening. They are designed for
> storage, not the kind of usage required when building. As you can see
> above, I turn the drawer system into a tray system to use it. If I were
> forced to use drawers and could not remove them, I would fill only every
> other row of drawers, allowing any to be left open while building.
I use pull-out drawers (IRIS) and don't have that problem. The
drawers are big enough that you can pull one out 1/3 of the way and
the one below it 2/3 of the way, and access both.
You do sometimes find the drawer you want blocked, but if you
alternate commonly-used drawers with not-so-commonly-used drawers,
it's not a big problem.
I could never be able to work with the tiny Akro-Mils type drawers
though. In addition to the above problem, you also have a very
complicated job of sorting, since there would need to be hundreds of
possible destinations for the pieces when disassembling a model. My
system has a total of only 21 drawers, so it's not very difficult to
sort things. A little raking is occasionally needed, but that's an
acceptable price to pay, IMHO.
--Bill.
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William R Ward bill@wards.net http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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 | | Re: Drawers vs tilt-bins and scratching?
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| (...) That's cool. I know drawers are by far the most common system for AFOLs, and complaints like mine are practically unheard of. But I'm tempted (almost) to attribute their popularity to economy of space and price. Then, their defense to (...) (24 years ago, 19-May-01, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Drawers vs tilt-bins and scratching?
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| (...) In a tilt-bin setup, bins get opened only once (they stay open) no matter how many times parts are taken from them. They can also be removed. In a tray system, as at TLC, the entire drawer is a compartmentalized tray (aprox 24x30x3). It gets (...) (24 years ago, 19-May-01, to lugnet.storage)
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