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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 22:04:03 GMT
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SUZ@avoidspamBASEPLATE.COM
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William R Ward wrote:
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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.
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> 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.
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 investment justification. :-)
I'm not saying that I think that's the case, it just crosses my mind sometimes.
The tilt-bins are extremely expensive and not often encountered set up
as an entire lab. Many people haven't had a chance to properly try them.
And I think it takes a fair amount of use before one can have thoroughly
tried a system out.
> 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.
There's a thought. Are all of your drawers directly in front of you?
> 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.
Yup. That's what Todd does. I'd go insane. :-)
> 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.
How large are the drawers you're using? Can you say anything else about
your setup? I'm curious. Like, how high up are they? Do you stand or sit?...
-Suz
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| (...) Yes. I have 3 IRIS cabinets of 7 drawers each. [...] (...) The cabinets are about 5 feet tall, and contain 7 drawers each, in three sizes (deep, medium, and shallow). I sit in a chair with a TV table off to one side, where the (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.storage)
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| (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 19-May-01, to lugnet.storage)
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