<VV> Lost Hardware / see through bottles

[Louis Armer]

Hi Craig, Another godsend is the abundance of FREE plastic containers 
and bottles we encounter in our daily living.
It used to be almost everything was glass and we had a hesitancy to 
use these for storage in our car hobby. Now we
have endless options for storing numerous items in unbreakable 
bottles, boxes, and pails of all sorts which can store
visible parts and most can be stacked and have a shelf life in years 
not months.

Chuck Armer
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At 03:22 PM 5/31/2008, you wrote:
>Shaun wrote:
>Hi Dave, and others, now I'm not telling anyone what to do, but when I
>dissassemble something that isn't going right back together, I reassemble
>all the fasteners into their original holes. It takes a minute but probably
>less time than going for baggies and a marker, plus when I pick up the parts
>
>again, all the fasteners are right there in the right spots. For me this
>isn't really important with Corvairs, because now I can reassemble almost
>any part of a Corvair from memory and if there's a missing fastener I have a
>
>"hellbox" filled with fasteners from stripped parts cars, but with some of
>my less familiar contraptions it works wonders. I'm teaching my kids this
>trick too, so now when I come across something that they've disassembled and
>
>left for dead, all the fasteners are right where they should be so I can
>still fix it!
>
>Craig replies:
>I couldn't agree more with Shaun's habit of putting the bolts right back
>where they came from. I call it "physical memory". With that trick I don't
>have to remember which hole got the long bolt, which hole got the stud and I
>don't have to remember which coffee can or bag went with what.  It makes it
>super easy for someone to come in behind you and finish the work, if it's
>collaboration or if it's you coming back yourself two years later, it's
>still brainless. (I seem to need more and more of that, but I digress)
>
>For pushrods and valve gear, I made a wooden box (about 12" by 20" by 8")
>that has two rows of 12 holes in both of the long sides.  It's sized so
>pushrods go through from one side to the other and there's a wooden plate
>that bolts over all of the open holes. On the one of the top rails, it's
>marked 135 246. I can store two sets of valve gear in there for 10 years and
>they'll all stay together. Flip it over and it doubles as a box to stand or
>sit on. Simple and oh so satisfying... GGG
>Craig
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