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  1. #1
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    Default Handy trays for workshop

    Recycle the plastic trays that Cryovac meat is packaged in.
    Good strong moulded shape complete with stiffening ribs.
    You can make up dividers out of MDF sheet and slot them between the ribs.
    The sizes that I have used measure
    170 x 270 x 60mm high
    170 x 270 x 40mm high.
    The products were bought at Coles.

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    They are certainly handy in the workshop. You can use them keep all the little bits and pieces together.

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    Good one, Linden. Lots of handy containers in the food chain, which would otherwise be binned. Tubs of whipped butter or cream cheese, trays of packaged cookies, etc. Plastic peanut butter jars are great for nuts 'n' bolts; even glass jars wrapped with transparent packing tape are somewhat shatter-resistant (or at least remain intact after shattering - 5-foot/1.5m drop test). Large spice jars - remove the sprinkle hole insert. Prescription pill bottles. Oh, the list goes on and on.

    The little trays are especially convenient when repairing things, so you don't lose tiny parts. Use several trays in a row if sequence of disassembly/re-assembly is critical.

    Joe
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    Fiction has to make sense. - Mark Twain

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    Default Trays

    Also handy for small paint jobs or mixing small amout of filler.

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    Another recycling tip.
    Plastic milk bottles are great for mixing things like epoxy,shellac etc. they make good brush cleaning jars, in fact because they are flexible and nothing adheres to them use is only limited by imagination. I just cut the base off and throw the top away but even that makes a temporary funnel of sorts.

    Jerry



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    I have found the trays very handy as well.
    When I was working in the mines , I used to keep the dead batteries from the Big Jim torches ,and cut around the top of the plastic container with a hacksaw .Lift the top off and empty the contents into the bin .The empty plastic shell makes an excellent storage container.
    I also keep the Mocona coffee jars ,they make excellent mixing jars , I have one that I keep my shellac rubbing pads in with a bit of metho ,it stops them from drying out.

    Kev
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