Small Parts Containers

[ridetheory]

I'm travelling at the moment, and I needed something to carry a delicate sub-assembly back to the hotel from the coffee shop. I took a Styrofoam cup, put the part between two rumpled napkins, then put the lid on.

[Kevin WS]

Cunning! Simple things are often the best...,

[Loui]

i use biscuit tin can for my paper model tools... and for my uncut / unfinished model kit i stored it in a lockable plastic box and i put several small bag of 'silica gel' to absorb the humidity....,

[Don Albury]

I try to keep the cats out of my workroom, but just in case ... I like food containers, as well. I also have a set of small cups with snap tops for small parts, and I use plastic shoe boxes for buildings in process or transporting.

[Mark Petersen]

Altoid tins, tubs from sour cream, margarine etc. Larger pieces brfore folding manilla envelopes (also usefull for scrap pieces used for extra construction tabs etc). Pretty much whatever floats your boat

[DWest]

I keep all my small parts scattered around on my desk and some on the floor, a few behind the desk and some of the really small ones inside my printer. This breaks up the monotony of just gluing parts together because I spend a lot of time looking for them and moving the desk away from the wall gives me plenty of exorcise. Keeping things in containers would simplify model building way too much.

[ringmaster]

Today I found a beautiful antique wooden sewing box that opened-up into ten layers and had two large bins next to the garbage, I ask my landlady, and she said she couldn't use it because the bottom came loss,

[Kevin WS]

You got me interested - show us a picture of the sewing box!

[SCEtoAUX]

Originally Posted by ringmaster

Today I found a beautiful antique wooden sewing box that opened-up into ten layers and had two large bins next to the garbage, I ask my landlady, and she said she couldn't use it because the bottom came loss,

And all you had to do was fix the bottom.
I was with my sister in a store years ago. There was a very nice hinged wooden box that would hold her sheet music just perfect. The price had been reduced by 90% because one of the hinges was "broken". My sister asked me to look and see if it could be repaired. I told her yes it could. All it needed was a piece of brass wire to replace the hinge pin. I had some brass wire brads that would work as the hinge pin. Took less than a minute in my shop to nip off the head of the brad and dull down the point to make the pin, less than another minute to insert it into the hinge.