Dan Padova said:
Korm Kormsen said:
…(i would take a pic, if i could find my camera…)
Have you looked in one of your shoe boxes…LOL
found it, when i cleaned out the car.
here my boxing system:
One time when the IG was coming, we labelled a 4 drawer cabinet:
Junk
Stuff
Miscellaneous
Other
They were not amused.
In my Jeep, when I used it for work, I had a parts drawer labeled large parts, and the one under it labeled large parts the squeal. The cable repairman saw that and thought it was so funny. One of the other techs where I worked saw it, and I had to try and explain it to him. If you have to explain a joke, its no longer funny.
I’m a little concerned that about half of your boxes are pink… (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
Greg
Greg Elmassian said:
I’m a little concerned that about half of your boxes are pink… (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
Greg
thanks for the laugh!
we got a general store and most of our customers take their shoes without boxes. and for free, pink is good enough.
Absolutely! I use banker’s boxes with numbers, too big for detail parts but good for boxes of stuff:
All the boxes only have a number on them, and then I keep a text document of the inventory, which can be changed easily:
1 COMPUTER fans, power cables, leds, speakers,etc.
2 ELECTRONIC - security cameras
3 MISC. School & misc. memorabilia
4* HAM - 2 meter linear, ora sb-2000 amp (900 mhz), icom 3sat handie (220)
5 ELECTRONIC heat sinks big electolytic caps, xfrmrs, inductors, noise filters
6 MISC - ammunition, bullets, project boxes
7 ELECTRONIC - 12v battery power adapters / big alligator clamps / big connectors / inverter
8 COMPUTER - case hardware, card plates, etc.
9 COMPUTER - laptop power supplies, cd/dvd, coolers, dell & sony docks, cool pads
10 PAINT rollers & trays
11 PHONE wire cords adapters crimping tool handset cords wall phone adapters
12 Z-wave zwave
13 HARDWARE rope twine string wire etc.
14 ELECTRONIC - solid wire
15 air conditioner hoses, vents
16 LANDSCAPING - outdoor lv lights, mr16 bulbs, leviton auto fill, landscape wire, waterproof splices copper, silicone
17 panasonic cordless phone spares, headset, polycom speaker phone speakerphone, analog touch tone desk phone
18 COMPUTER - pc 110v power cords
19 blind & shade hardware, silouettes white knobs from kitchen cabs, computer ram dram memory, lcd vesa tv mounts, stainless cables, computer DRAM
20 COMPUTER - RS-232 serial cables switchboxes adapters, ups cables inc usb ones
21 COMPUTER - 100 BaseT ethernet network cables, ethernet cards, ethernet switches, fiber optic transceivers
22 AUTO Zapco: 4 power amps/cap boxes/power supplies 1 active eq/xover 1 passive xover
23 ELECTRONIC - stranded wire
24* HAM - icom 901, with fiber interface b, 50mhz, 1200mhz, 28mhz, 220
25* HAM - icom 2720h dual bander,icom ic-900 & fiber interface “a”, yaesu duplexer, 2m/440, larsen nmo mag mount
26 COMPUTER - video cards and cables vga dvi hdmi, hdmi switch
27 AUTO stereo gear: shielded zipper tube - audio and other ferrite chokes & caps for xovers, zapco lit, preamp, amp
28 HARDWARE clear plastic sheet pc board material fine screen material - nylon aluminum tubes etc.
29 PAINT - Brushes, pouring spouts, stir sticks, drop cloths and drill stirrer
30 zipper tubing and spiral wrap, split tubing
31 PLUMBING pvc pipe & fittings - plumbing supplies toilet valves - shower heads
32 ELECTRONIC audio & video coax cables, component, svideo, fiber optic digital audio, am/fm antennas, composite/svideo modulator
33 5v 6v DC power adapters / cubes
34 ELECTRONIC weller & other soldering stations heat guns, misc.
35 HARDWARE hoses and tubing - drill motor pump - water level - small water pumps
36 TV - TV degausser - tape head demagnetizer, directv b band converter, TV coax
37 ELECTRONIC power adapters / cubes 12v dc / misc dc power connectors w/cords
38 ELECTRONIC X10 x-10
39 COMPUTER USB cables, hubs, boards, flash card readers, usb casio labeller, web cameras
40 ELECTRICAL - 110v extension cords, light and heavy
41** MISC Lo-heet stainless steel cookware - coffee grinder from grandmother Hughes
42 BICYCLE 2 motorcycle helmets - skating hand protectors - bicycle gloves
43 ELECTRONIC 110v 2 pin power cords, short adapters, octopus, wire & power cords adapters surge suppressors
44 PLUMBING outdoor fountain - sump pump fountain parts
45 LANDSCAPING - drains, valves, pvc risers / nipples, 1/2 inch pvc fittings, water pressure gauge
46 COMPUTER parallel game printer cards cables firewire pcmcia
47 COMPUTER routers, 802.11 wireless access points, modems
48 COMPUTER IDE & SATA hard drives & cables, floppy drives, hard drive adapters, ide & sata
49 COMPUTER SCSI hard drives, cables, controllers, adapters
50 ELECTRONIC ham coax
51 COMPUTER - sound cards speakers audio microphone
52 AUTOMOTIVE - electric car buffer, electric waxer, chamois
53 HAM - realistic pro-2004 scanner, ham triplexer 2m/220/440, maldol powermount motorized antenna, kenwood tm-741 triband radio, kenwood speaker, small 440 mag mount, th31t box, handie, no battery
54 COMPUTER cd & dvd rom drives
55 MISC - dremel base rr signal mirror turntable platter & mat LED clock in gold case
56 9v power adapters / cubes
57 100’ fish tape, video of penny, variac, 100v step down converter, 2 smoke alarms (more room)
58 ELECTRICAL - plug strips - 2 socket to 6 socket adapters
59 ELECTRONIC - misc electronics, wind river, PCMCIA pda’s, toshiba pda, pda keyboard, more room
60 Ham BNC TNC PL259 “N” adapter connectors, lock padlock hardware, several big padlocks, keys, ace type lock switch
61 ELECTRONIC - misc voltage dc power adapters / cubes, misc voltages and adjustable, cables wi/dc connectors, 120v to 240 v step up transformer
62 heating plate, air pump for turntable, 3 backrests for spa, spa parts, lenses
63 AML K4 parts
101 nce d808 dcc decoders, soundtraxx tsunami tsu-1000, quantum engineers and booster, mrc decoders
102 smoke units
103 old rs-3 or fa smoke units, old sound boards
All the boxes are on shelves in numeric order, a simple control-F (find) in a text editor locates what I want…
Greg
Darn. I have stuff in boxes, but not that many boxes. And on the end of the box is written what is in the box. Now, ifonly I could find the box I am looking for…
Gregh, that sounds very professional. i’m just a messie. if i had more room for tables, i would never use boxes.
David, if you can’t find the boxes, change to bigger boxes.
Korm, no. The boxes are all the same size, and they stack real nice. One has 2 LGB Porters in it, so they are already a decent size. The issue is, I cant stack them all in the same place, so I have some in my workroom, in 2 different piles, and some in the garage, in 2 different piles, and it took me way too long last night to find the RJ25 cable and plugs I needed for my HO module.
Greg Elmassian said:
Absolutely! I use banker’s boxes with numbers, too big for detail parts but good for boxes of stuff:
All the boxes only have a number on them, and then I keep a text document of the inventory, which can be changed easily:
1 COMPUTER fans, power cables, leds, speakers,etc.
2 ELECTRONIC - security cameras
3 MISC. School & misc. memorabilia
4* HAM - 2 meter linear, ora sb-2000 amp (900 mhz), icom 3sat handie (220)
5 ELECTRONIC heat sinks big electolytic caps, xfrmrs, inductors, noise filters
6 MISC - ammunition, bullets, project boxes
7 ELECTRONIC - 12v battery power adapters / big alligator clamps / big connectors / inverter
8 COMPUTER - case hardware, card plates, etc.
9 COMPUTER - laptop power supplies, cd/dvd, coolers, dell & sony docks, cool pads
10 PAINT rollers & trays
11 PHONE wire cords adapters crimping tool handset cords wall phone adapters
12 Z-wave zwave
13 HARDWARE rope twine string wire etc.
14 ELECTRONIC - solid wire
15 air conditioner hoses, vents
16 LANDSCAPING - outdoor lv lights, mr16 bulbs, leviton auto fill, landscape wire, waterproof splices copper, silicone
17 panasonic cordless phone spares, headset, polycom speaker phone speakerphone, analog touch tone desk phone
18 COMPUTER - pc 110v power cords
19 blind & shade hardware, silouettes white knobs from kitchen cabs, computer ram dram memory, lcd vesa tv mounts, stainless cables, computer DRAM
20 COMPUTER - RS-232 serial cables switchboxes adapters, ups cables inc usb ones
21 COMPUTER - 100 BaseT ethernet network cables, ethernet cards, ethernet switches, fiber optic transceivers
22 AUTO Zapco: 4 power amps/cap boxes/power supplies 1 active eq/xover 1 passive xover
23 ELECTRONIC - stranded wire
24* HAM - icom 901, with fiber interface b, 50mhz, 1200mhz, 28mhz, 220
25* HAM - icom 2720h dual bander,icom ic-900 & fiber interface “a”, yaesu duplexer, 2m/440, larsen nmo mag mount
26 COMPUTER - video cards and cables vga dvi hdmi, hdmi switch
27 AUTO stereo gear: shielded zipper tube - audio and other ferrite chokes & caps for xovers, zapco lit, preamp, amp
28 HARDWARE clear plastic sheet pc board material fine screen material - nylon aluminum tubes etc.
29 PAINT - Brushes, pouring spouts, stir sticks, drop cloths and drill stirrer
30 zipper tubing and spiral wrap, split tubing
31 PLUMBING pvc pipe & fittings - plumbing supplies toilet valves - shower heads
32 ELECTRONIC audio & video coax cables, component, svideo, fiber optic digital audio, am/fm antennas, composite/svideo modulator
33 5v 6v DC power adapters / cubes
34 ELECTRONIC weller & other soldering stations heat guns, misc.
35 HARDWARE hoses and tubing - drill motor pump - water level - small water pumps
36 TV - TV degausser - tape head demagnetizer, directv b band converter, TV coax
37 ELECTRONIC power adapters / cubes 12v dc / misc dc power connectors w/cords
38 ELECTRONIC X10 x-10
39 COMPUTER USB cables, hubs, boards, flash card readers, usb casio labeller, web cameras
40 ELECTRICAL - 110v extension cords, light and heavy
41** MISC Lo-heet stainless steel cookware - coffee grinder from grandmother Hughes
42 BICYCLE 2 motorcycle helmets - skating hand protectors - bicycle gloves
43 ELECTRONIC 110v 2 pin power cords, short adapters, octopus, wire & power cords adapters surge suppressors
44 PLUMBING outdoor fountain - sump pump fountain parts
45 LANDSCAPING - drains, valves, pvc risers / nipples, 1/2 inch pvc fittings, water pressure gauge
46 COMPUTER parallel game printer cards cables firewire pcmcia
47 COMPUTER routers, 802.11 wireless access points, modems
48 COMPUTER IDE & SATA hard drives & cables, floppy drives, hard drive adapters, ide & sata
49 COMPUTER SCSI hard drives, cables, controllers, adapters
50 ELECTRONIC ham coax
51 COMPUTER - sound cards speakers audio microphone
52 AUTOMOTIVE - electric car buffer, electric waxer, chamois
53 HAM - realistic pro-2004 scanner, ham triplexer 2m/220/440, maldol powermount motorized antenna, kenwood tm-741 triband radio, kenwood speaker, small 440 mag mount, th31t box, handie, no battery
54 COMPUTER cd & dvd rom drives
55 MISC - dremel base rr signal mirror turntable platter & mat LED clock in gold case
56 9v power adapters / cubes
57 100’ fish tape, video of penny, variac, 100v step down converter, 2 smoke alarms (more room)
58 ELECTRICAL - plug strips - 2 socket to 6 socket adapters
59 ELECTRONIC - misc electronics, wind river, PCMCIA pda’s, toshiba pda, pda keyboard, more room
60 Ham BNC TNC PL259 “N” adapter connectors, lock padlock hardware, several big padlocks, keys, ace type lock switch
61 ELECTRONIC - misc voltage dc power adapters / cubes, misc voltages and adjustable, cables wi/dc connectors, 120v to 240 v step up transformer
62 heating plate, air pump for turntable, 3 backrests for spa, spa parts, lenses
63 AML K4 parts101 nce d808 dcc decoders, soundtraxx tsunami tsu-1000, quantum engineers and booster, mrc decoders
102 smoke units
103 old rs-3 or fa smoke units, old sound boardsAll the boxes are on shelves in numeric order, a simple control-F (find) in a text editor locates what I want…
Greg
Why do you have a 100’ fish tape in box 57?
I noticed box 69 is missing so that throws up a red flag right there!
I hesitated a moment since I did not read through the whole thing, but I figured you guys would find some fun stuff.
The “fish tape” is the long flat steel “tape” for “fishing” wires through walls or in my case conduit:
Rooster, box 69 has censored contents…
I know what fish tape is, but a video of Penny? Penny who? And 2 smoke alarms. You know smoke alarms should be taken out of the box so they can do their job.
David Maynard said:
… should be taken out of the box so they can do their job.
you’ll never be a real hoarder!
Penny is wife, used to be the weather girl in Flagstaff, AZ.
Smoke alarms are spares, although they do go bad after 10 years or so.
I’m surprised Rooster did not comment on item #3 in box 45…
Greg
David Maynard said:
In my Jeep, when I used it for work, I had a parts drawer labeled large parts, and the one under it labeled large parts the squeal. The cable repairman saw that and thought it was so funny. One of the other techs where I worked saw it, and I had to try and explain it to him. If you have to explain a joke, its no longer funny.
Ha, he who laughs last, had it explained to him.
The Priority “Shoe box” at the post office is ideal for storing rolling stock. The box is a bit short for longer stock but you can tape two boxes end to end to make a box fit the piece you want housed inside.
Greg Elmassian said:
Absolutely! I use banker’s boxes with numbers, too big for detail parts but good for boxes of stuff:
All the boxes only have a number on them, and then I keep a text document of the inventory, which can be changed easily:
Man, if MacGyver happened across that mother lode he’d think he’d found the holy grail. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
Korm Kormsen said:
David Maynard said:
… should be taken out of the box so they can do their job.
you’ll never be a real hoarder!
Korm, you haven’t seen my stashes.
Oh guys, that list is just the garage, it’s not my office in the house, many more goodies, but mostly microprocessor based.
Greg
I still want to know what’s in “Box 69”. (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)
