Cardboard Shelf Box Source?

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Elvee61

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Does anyone know of a good source for, say, 4-inch wide by 11-inch deep cardboard shelf boxes? The kind you fold into a nice little bin for small parts and the like?

My turning blank inventory has gotten totally out of hand. I'd like to get my hands on about 2 dozen (or more) of these and the local office supply store has been no help.
 
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Plastic shoe boxes, the best friend of pen makers. One box per type of kit, with tax $1.61 at Target. Big enough that you can keep 2 or so platings in each box, along with the bushings, drill bits and anything else you might think you need for each kit. If you make bullet pens, you can keep the dies, brass and the bullets all in one box, for most it would even have room left over for Brasso or another polish. Types of wood can be sorted by shoe box, acrylics can be sorted by colors, even sizes can be sorted in to shoe boxes.

They are dust proof, moisture proof, and with the clear you can pretty well tell what is in them. Also easy to label, a 4x6 card taped on the inside can be written on by a Sharpie making t easy to see what is inside.

A rack can be built, but they easily stack to 4 or 5 high. It is a pain if you stack them, because every time you need one it will be on the bottom of the stack. If you do not expose them to sunlight they will last a long, long time.
 
HD had some of these plastic boxes at .89ea, a couple of days ago. I have my kits and some blanks in them also.
 
Elvee61 said:
Does anyone know of a good source for, say, 4-inch wide by 11-inch deep cardboard shelf boxes? The kind you fold into a nice little bin for small parts and the like?

My turning blank inventory has gotten totally out of hand. I'd like to get my hands on about 2 dozen (or more) of these and the local office supply store has been no help.
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Something like these?
Cardboard Bins, Bin Boxes in Stock - Uline
 
I like the cheap, plastic box idea, especially the "cheap" part. Being able to seal up some of these blanks would be nice to keep the moisture levels under control, especially during humid summers in a damp basement.

The dogs are barking, which means UPS just dropped another box of blanks on my front porch. Before I even open it up, I'm going to head down to my local Target (and the HD is right next door!) and see what I can come up with.
 
I use the plastic containers that cold cuts come in at the supermarket. They are about half the size of a shoe box - and that's good because it means that you have partition your storage into smaller batches. With appropriate labeling, that makes it easier to find stuff. And the price is right - they are intended to be throwaways, so you can convince yourself that they are free.

Now if I could just remember which box I put those rare-earth magnets in - - -
 
Harbor Freight has the boxes you are asking about,and they are cheap..

Good luck I am still trying diff. ways. The box idea is ok but to much dust and all you need is one Grandkid and guess (don`t ask,but 3hrs later:frown:)..
 
Well, I got a big stack of plastic shoe boxes and got all my "pen stuff" organized, and I'm kind of sorry I did. Ignorance is (was) bliss. Now I have a crystal-clear accounting of all the crap I've ordered over the years and then never touched.

I decided to organize my kits and blanks by type. Slimlines, Trimlines, "Special Pens", non-pen kits, etc. Prior to this, my stuff was organized by the "huge boxes stuffed full of unrelated crap stacked on the floor" method.

I've spent the last 2 nights doing NOTHING but taking inventory and getting organized. It turns out the "mental snapshot" I had of my stock was way, WAY off. It looks like I've ordered and re-ordered the same kits and blanks over and over, thinking I was out or that I hadn't already ordered them. I have still have pen kits that I ordered in 2001.

Based on my current stock levels, I'm going to be turning curly maple slimlines for the remainder of my natural life.
 
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