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[Mark Onofri]

Tired of turning your 3' lengths of wire and brass into spaghetti? I was, so here's my solution. Just some 1/2" CPVC( you can use almost anything) and some caps. Just don't cut it the same length as what you are going to put in it. It makes it tough to get out if it's the same size 😜. I wouldn't have made a bracket for the rear but, I forgot the straps. It actually worked out better.

Next, the equivalent of a nipple tray used in plumbing/pipefitting.

 

 

[Bill from NH]

Looks good, Mark! In the '70s, all K&S piano wire in the Boston area was sold in 1' lengths all dia. for a nickel. I stored each dia. in their own Pringles can. Today, I still have one of those Pringle cans down cellar with odd-ball stuff. I keep my short lengths in a covered plastic tub and 3' lengths in the cardboard tubes they were sold in.

[S.O. Watt]

Yup, tubes are your friends as is places to hang stuff, bins to toss stuff in. Not quite the 5S that was followed at a major aerospace company I retired from but good enough for CbH.

The 12" wire sold way back when was K&S tinned wire, all sizes for a nickel. The 3 foot piecse did exist back then and was quite common.

 

[mreibman]

I keep mine in the shipping box tucked between two joists in my workroom ceiling. Keeps them out of the way.

[Mark Onofri]

Mr. What,

Nice! Only thing is, I'd poke my eye out with the pegboard hangers that long!

[NSwanberg]

I store my brass and wire in old Staxx plastic cans on the floor sorted not by size but by length. It can't fall of the floor.

[Mark Onofri]

LMFAO!!! I bet it could at my house!!! I think there's a 🕳️ where things go that wind up on my floor!!!

[Mark Onofri]

Here's the next installment. There's going to be about a dozen more.
 
I'm hoping to build/restore/repair slot cars again someday. Maybe being organized will make up for the time spent on these projects. Yah, right.
 

 

[Bill from NH]

Mark, if you build with it, you don't have to worry how it's stored.  

[Mark Onofri]

Hmm, I'll keep that in (what's left of) my mind.

I'm frivolous to the point of, well, my friends say I'm a cheep ba****d! I just don't like to waste anything. It's not the value, it's the time it takes to go and get it. Who wants to cut a 2" piece off a 3' or 12" piece?

[Bill from NH]

If it's straight, I keep it for reuse. You ought to see my pile of wood cutoffs.  My dad went through the depression; he was a bigger saver than I am. He taught us kids how to straighten bent nails to use rather than getting new ones.

[Mark Onofri]

LMFAO!!!! The ability to straighten nails is the only thing that kept me from getting beat up as a kid!!! Tree fortress, not forts, were all the rage. You can't defend yourself successfully in a chestnut war without a tree fortress!! Tree fortress made a great weapons platform once we found out about the "wrist rocket".

[Bill from NH]

All you needed was a hammer and a block of wood. 

When I was repairing my mailbox post last week, I bent a reused nail. Instead of replacing it, I hammered it straight and nailed it in. My extra nails were 260' away.

[Mark Onofri]

Yah but, did you have a "wrist rocket"?

[Bill from NH]

I have never been a science fiction fan, not even when a kid.

[John Luongo]

If it's straight, I keep it for reuse. You ought to see my pile of wood cutoffs.  My dad went through the depression; he was a bigger saver than I am. He taught us kids how to straighten bent nails to use rather than getting new ones.

 
I know what you mean. The last thing those old nails are used for were cotter pins on farm equipment.

[NSwanberg]

My aunt maintained she found a box in her mother in-laws attic marked, "Pieces of string, too short to use."

[Mark Onofri]

To much Funny!!! string,nails, bottles and, etc. Guess we've all been there!
Billnh,a wrist rocket is a sling shot from hell! Picture a sling shot with a forearm brace!!!

[Bill from NH]

I had a small steel frame slingshot. I used to shoot rocks across the road at the neighbor's hen house.

[Mark Onofri]

Ahhh, misspent youth

[Mark Onofri]

And now, back to the thread

[Mark Onofri]

Dislexya can be a good thing, sometimes. I'll wind up with tubes of almost the same length but, I've always got a plan B.

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[Mark Onofri]

Plan B. It's probably going to wind up A+B.

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