kovalcik
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I am sure everyone else is in the same boat, but I have about a thousand little plastic bags. What do people do with them? Anybody have any good ideas on how to put them to use? I hate just throwing them out.
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Justturnin
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Cast them and make a pen..........I feel you. I hate to get a kit that has every part in a seperate baggie. I keep the big ones to use for whatever, I even have some w/ Saw Dust from the band saw from various woods so if I need filler. The rest go in the recycle bin.
monophoto
Member
Yeah - sometime I think the only people who really make out in the pen business are the guys who make the plastic bags.
I throw them all away. Such a waste, but I have no other use for them. Sometimes you're talking 4 or 5 per pen kit.
PenMan1
Member
They work very well for applying a SMOOTH CA finish! Otherwise, useless.
Drstrangefart
Member
If I sold drugs, I'd be all over them. Alas, the game got the best of me a while back, so I have no use for them either.
They are extremely useful for ****ing me off. If you are someone out there who I cut off in traffic, dated your daughter in high school, or you just don't like me for some reason, please put everything I need from you into separate little bags that make fat fingered people like myself look retarded.
ctubbs
Member
Other than a pair of sharp scissors, just how do you get the little ........ things open easily? Another ham fisted big fingered turner.
Charles
Charles
Fibonacci
Member
I use them to store tiny machine screws or electronic parts.
They work great as project bags. This big one holds all the little ones associated with a project. I will have a bag of resistors, a bag of transistors, other little parts, etc.
They still get out of hand, but I don't see a better way of keeping all the metal parts in a kit from chipping each other's platings.
They work great as project bags. This big one holds all the little ones associated with a project. I will have a bag of resistors, a bag of transistors, other little parts, etc.
They still get out of hand, but I don't see a better way of keeping all the metal parts in a kit from chipping each other's platings.
JBCustomPens
Member
Toss em.
Charles: You have to promise not to hate me for being an intellect or I won't tell you just how simple it is! Oh, All right, I'll tell you. I'm not telling you this to make me look smart or to make you look like a Moron, I just happened to get P***** off one day and tried something different. When I try to open them like you are supposed to, the top tears, or I can't get hold of both ears, or AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHH! Here's how! At the interlocking seal, put your thumb over one side and your index finger over the other side. Press very firmly and move your thumb and finger in opposite directions. Kinda like you are trying to get a booger off your finger. One side will slip in the other side and cause the closure to pucker kinda like this. :befuddled
r this:yin-yang: If your fingers are too dry and slip on the bag and won't cause it to pucker, lick your fingers and try again. (only if you don't have a booger on them) Really, it does work!:wink:
r this:yin-yang: If your fingers are too dry and slip on the bag and won't cause it to pucker, lick your fingers and try again. (only if you don't have a booger on them) Really, it does work!:wink:GoatRider
Member
Yah, that's how I do it. Good description.Charles: You have to promise not to hate me for being an intellect or I won't tell you just how simple it is! Oh, All right, I'll tell you. I'm not telling you this to make me look smart or to make you look like a Moron, I just happened to get P***** off one day and tried something different. When I try to open them like you are supposed to, the top tears, or I can't get hold of both ears, or AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHH! Here's how! At the interlocking seal, put your thumb over one side and your index finger over the other side. Press very firmly and move your thumb and finger in opposite directions. Kinda like you are trying to get a booger off your finger. One side will slip in the other side and cause the closure to pucker kinda like this. :befuddled
TellicoTurning
Member
I throw them away... I don't try to open them... I just tear the tops off, then their toast.
firewhatfire
Member
Applying ca is what I tried other day. Stuck my finger in it and put paper towel on it. Other than a sweaty finger it worked fine.
Holz Mechaniker
Member
I sell them to the crack dealer on a corner..... sorry just the comic in me... um put them in the recycle bin.
76winger
Member
On the little ones for individual parts, I just tear the tops off. The bigger ones I've been keeping for God knows what.
nava1uni
Member
I use them to store things like saw dust, small parts. The larger one I punch a hole in and keep cut up sand paper in various grits for use while turning. If you punch a hole then you can hang them up to store things. When they get to be too much I recycle them at a local hardware store.
DMGill
Member
The little ones tear in half very easily. Much easier and quicker to get the parts out than trying to unzip them.
navycop
Member
I just tear mine open over the table with a towel or rag on it.
Papo
Member
Here it goes if you are keeping them with the intention that some day I will use them
consider yourself a hoarder. NOT MEEEEE ahhh ahhhh
consider yourself a hoarder.
NOT MEEEEE ahhh ahhhh
JRay8
Member
the large ones i put my woodworking label on and put the finished pen back in it. every pen comes with a free protective pouch!
the little ones are trash.
the little ones are trash.
ssajn
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I've been giving them to my youngest grand daughter for years. She loves them for keeping "her stuff" in. Her mother hates them. :biggrin:
great12b4ever
Member
If you have a wet sander , put some earth magnets in a few of them, seal, and plop in the water holder. That way the iron from your tools that you are sharpening will adhere to the plastic bag withs the magents and you can pull out the magents, throw the bags away, and put the magnets in new fresh bags. My water stays a lot cleaner this way and I don't have to clean it out as often.
bitshird
Member
Charles, I just rip the suckers open. May not be pretty but I want the part, and the plastic is SOOOO Thinnnnnnnnn a man with large fingers can't pull them open. But the do work OK for putting on CA in a pinch, you can get a pretty smooth coat that way.
SDB777
Member
No use for 'em...toss 'em!
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