Your Most Go-To-est Small and Medium Parts
Pals, we've got a bunch of long skinny red u-line bins (like 4" x 18") on a couple long shelves now that are BALLING. They're super easy access for people to get their hands on small and medium sized parts. What are your like, top ten or top twenty small or medium sized things that people need to get ahold of? What would I not think of, but you're like "oh folks actually need XYZ like all the damn time"? Or do you have cautionary tales, like "don't put fifteen pounds of M5 bolts in one of those, they will get mixed up immediately with other things and it will suck"?
Also check it: we're going to take a tip from Kickstand in Vancouver and hot-glue the part itself to the front of the bin, so that no one needs to remember just what a thing is called to have access to the magic.
Josh Bisker 914-500-9890 New York Mechanical Gardens Bike Co-op http://bikecoop.nyc/ 596 Acres http://596acres.org/ Bindlestiff Family Cirkus http://bindlestiff.org/
For medium/larger items open bins like the ones you're talking about are totally fine. I definitely find that for smaller items around bolt/nut-sized you'll end up with them mixed up really quickly, I like tackle boxes/bins with lids for anything that size because it stops the person with the bolt in their hand from just throwing it in whichever bin is closest.
On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 8:23 PM, Josh Bisker jbisker@gmail.com wrote:
Pals, we've got a bunch of long skinny red u-line bins (like 4" x 18") on a couple long shelves now that are BALLING. They're super easy access for people to get their hands on small and medium sized parts. What are your like, top ten or top twenty small or medium sized things that people need to get ahold of? What would I not think of, but you're like "oh folks actually need XYZ like all the damn time"? Or do you have cautionary tales, like "don't put fifteen pounds of M5 bolts in one of those, they will get mixed up immediately with other things and it will suck"?
Also check it: we're going to take a tip from Kickstand in Vancouver and hot-glue the part itself to the front of the bin, so that no one needs to remember just what a thing is called to have access to the magic.
Josh Bisker 914-500-9890 <(914)%20500-9890> New York Mechanical Gardens Bike Co-op http://bikecoop.nyc/ 596 Acres http://596acres.org/ Bindlestiff Family Cirkus http://bindlestiff.org/
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We've got a ton of those bins and we use them more for medium-sized parts, like cable guides, caged bearings, headset races, brake pads, axles, and the like. We also have several sizes so we use the other sizes for bigger parts as well.
For really small parts, like cable stops for old road bikes, or loose barrel adjusters, or frame bolts, we use the old standby "unit of workshop drawers" kind of thing that you get all over the place, new, at garage sales, on craigslist, donated. - usually the drawers are clear hard acrylic plastic and the cabinet can be metal or plastic.
One thing in the neighborhood I'd like to suggest (but not in your question per se) [HAMMERS[] is that a lot of the smallest parts, like mixed washers and mixed bolts or mixed nuts, or even things as big as cable guides which may have a wide variety of aesthetics, can benefit from a sorting tray.
A sorting tray is just a very wide, and very shallow tray. A large baking sheet works well in most cases, or even a large cake pan. We have some in the shop and we've cut holes in one corner with a doorknob hole saw/bit/thing. The way it works is that you can store the smaller pieces however, but when you need to dig through them to get the part you need you dump the bin into the sorting tray and spread them all out so you can see what's there more quickly and easily. It works pretty swell. I've even thought about making a sorting table with a little barrier around the perimeter and a small opening at the corner for "draining" but haven't yet tested that out.
Another issue that's difficult to orient participants around is when two parts look really similar to the untrained eye. We tried to keep out skewers in bins according to front and rear, and it absolutely cannot happen. New people (and most of our people will always be new) just cannot tell the difference between front and rear skewers. We tried placing them in completely different areas of the parts room but it did not help at all.
Another unconventional thing I do is when we used to have a shortage of bins, but also a shortage of parts, I'd use a bin for two completely visually different parts that absolutely could not be mistaken for one another, like brake pads and axles, or seats and fenders. Obviously this is weird and not ideal, but it worked when we didn't have enough bins. For the most part, people used it without instruction accurately.
I mentioned the sorting tray in part because the small parts people seem to need most are washers, bolts, and nuts, which in my experience are rarely sorted comprehensively. Those three tend to be in the most constant demand as far as loose parts go, unless you're talking valve caps or tire patches or end crimps/ferrules or whatever.
-Cyclista Nicholas
On 2018-01-26 01:52, David Oliver wrote:
For medium/larger items open bins like the ones you're talking about are totally fine. I definitely find that for smaller items around bolt/nut-sized you'll end up with them mixed up really quickly, I like tackle boxes/bins with lids for anything that size because it stops the person with the bolt in their hand from just throwing it in whichever bin is closest.
On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 8:23 PM, Josh Bisker jbisker@gmail.com wrote:
Pals, we've got a bunch of long skinny red u-line bins (like 4" x 18") on a couple long shelves now that are BALLING. They're super easy access for people to get their hands on small and medium sized parts. What are your like, top ten or top twenty small or medium sized things that people need to get ahold of? What would I not think of, but you're like "oh folks actually need XYZ like all the damn time"? Or do you have cautionary tales, like "don't put fifteen pounds of M5 bolts in one of those, they will get mixed up immediately with other things and it will suck"?
Also check it: we're going to take a tip from Kickstand in Vancouver and hot-glue the part itself to the front of the bin, so that no one needs to remember just what a thing is called to have access to the magic.
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I immediately went and wrote down that bit about the hot glue
On 2018-01-26 01:23, Josh Bisker wrote:
Pals, we've got a bunch of long skinny red u-line bins (like 4" x 18") on a couple long shelves now that are BALLING. They're super easy access for people to get their hands on small and medium sized parts. What are your like, top ten or top twenty small or medium sized things that people need to get ahold of? What would I not think of, but you're like "oh folks actually need XYZ like all the damn time"? Or do you have cautionary tales, like "don't put fifteen pounds of M5 bolts in one of those, they will get mixed up immediately with other things and it will suck"?
Also check it: we're going to take a tip from Kickstand in Vancouver and hot-glue the part itself to the front of the bin, so that no one needs to remember just what a thing is called to have access to the magic.
Josh Bisker 914-500-9890 New York Mechanical Gardens Bike Co-op http://bikecoop.nyc/ 596 Acres http://596acres.org/ Bindlestiff Family Cirkus http://bindlestiff.org/
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OMG has everyone heard of dry erase tape and dry erase stickers?!
I was lamenting today that the hot glue idea wouldn't work for tires, and then I thought dejectedly about how badly adhesive labels always work out. I suddenly had the thought that what would be awesome would be labels that were dry erase, and then I thought someone must have already invented that, and surely enough they exist!! Hell yeah!!
They're a little on the expensive side, but at least for our shop this will revolutionize our ability to label parts storage. Also a lot of community shops are probably set up to get them donated.
-cyclista Nicholas
On 2018-01-26 08:39, cyclista@inventati.org wrote:
I immediately went and wrote down that bit about the hot glue
On 2018-01-26 01:23, Josh Bisker wrote:
Pals, we've got a bunch of long skinny red u-line bins (like 4" x 18") on a couple long shelves now that are BALLING. They're super easy access for people to get their hands on small and medium sized parts. What are your like, top ten or top twenty small or medium sized things that people need to get ahold of? What would I not think of, but you're like "oh folks actually need XYZ like all the damn time"? Or do you have cautionary tales, like "don't put fifteen pounds of M5 bolts in one of those, they will get mixed up immediately with other things and it will suck"?
Also check it: we're going to take a tip from Kickstand in Vancouver and hot-glue the part itself to the front of the bin, so that no one needs to remember just what a thing is called to have access to the magic.
Josh Bisker 914-500-9890 New York Mechanical Gardens Bike Co-op http://bikecoop.nyc/ 596 Acres http://596acres.org/ Bindlestiff Family Cirkus http://bindlestiff.org/
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Do you have a source or a link for these dry erase stickers? Thanks, Rebecca
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On Jan 27, 2018, at 10:12 PM, "cyclista@inventati.org" cyclista@inventati.org wrote:
OMG has everyone heard of dry erase tape and dry erase stickers?!
I was lamenting today that the hot glue idea wouldn't work for tires, and then I thought dejectedly about how badly adhesive labels always work out. I suddenly had the thought that what would be awesome would be labels that were dry erase, and then I thought someone must have already invented that, and surely enough they exist!! Hell yeah!!
They're a little on the expensive side, but at least for our shop this will revolutionize our ability to label parts storage. Also a lot of community shops are probably set up to get them donated.
-cyclista Nicholas
On 2018-01-26 08:39, cyclista@inventati.org wrote: I immediately went and wrote down that bit about the hot glue
On 2018-01-26 01:23, Josh Bisker wrote: Pals, we've got a bunch of long skinny red u-line bins (like 4" x 18") on a couple long shelves now that are BALLING. They're super easy access for people to get their hands on small and medium sized parts. What are your like, top ten or top twenty small or medium sized things that people need to get ahold of? What would I not think of, but you're like "oh folks actually need XYZ like all the damn time"? Or do you have cautionary tales, like "don't put fifteen pounds of M5 bolts in one of those, they will get mixed up immediately with other things and it will suck"? Also check it: we're going to take a tip from Kickstand in Vancouver and hot-glue the part itself to the front of the bin, so that no one needs to remember just what a thing is called to have access to the magic. Josh Bisker 914-500-9890 New York Mechanical Gardens Bike Co-op http://bikecoop.nyc/ 596 Acres http://596acres.org/ Bindlestiff Family Cirkus http://bindlestiff.org/ ____________________________________ The ThinkTank mailing List Unsubscribe from this list here: http://lists.bikecollectives.org/options.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.or...
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And pics showing how you mean to use 'em? I'm super supportive of your excitement! Just can't picture what's making you feel it :)
Josh Bisker 914-500-9890 New York Mechanical Gardens Bike Co-op http://bikecoop.nyc/ 596 Acres http://596acres.org/ Bindlestiff Family Cirkus http://bindlestiff.org/
On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 4:41 PM, rebecca owens rebowens33@hotmail.com wrote:
Do you have a source or a link for these dry erase stickers? Thanks, Rebecca
🐾
On Jan 27, 2018, at 10:12 PM, "cyclista@inventati.org" <
cyclista@inventati.org> wrote:
OMG has everyone heard of dry erase tape and dry erase stickers?!
I was lamenting today that the hot glue idea wouldn't work for tires,
and then I thought dejectedly about how badly adhesive labels always work out. I suddenly had the thought that what would be awesome would be labels that were dry erase, and then I thought someone must have already invented that, and surely enough they exist!! Hell yeah!!
They're a little on the expensive side, but at least for our shop this
will revolutionize our ability to label parts storage. Also a lot of community shops are probably set up to get them donated.
-cyclista Nicholas
On 2018-01-26 08:39, cyclista@inventati.org wrote: I immediately went and wrote down that bit about the hot glue
On 2018-01-26 01:23, Josh Bisker wrote: Pals, we've got a bunch of long skinny red u-line bins (like 4" x 18")
on a
couple long shelves now that are BALLING. They're super easy access for people to get their hands on small and medium sized parts. What are
your
like, top ten or top twenty small or medium sized things that people
need
to get ahold of? What would I not think of, but you're like "oh folks actually need XYZ like all the damn time"? Or do you have cautionary
tales,
like "don't put fifteen pounds of M5 bolts in one of those, they will
get
mixed up immediately with other things and it will suck"? Also check it: we're going to take a tip from Kickstand in Vancouver
and
hot-glue the part itself to the front of the bin, so that no one needs
to
remember just what a thing is called to have access to the magic. Josh Bisker 914-500-9890 New York Mechanical Gardens Bike Co-op http://bikecoop.nyc/ 596 Acres http://596acres.org/ Bindlestiff Family Cirkus http://bindlestiff.org/ ____________________________________ The ThinkTank mailing List Unsubscribe from this list here: http://lists.bikecollectives.org/options.cgi/thethinktank-
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Lol, ok. Here goes.
So parts get labeled, right? Often with stickers, or someone paints on the bucket or the bin, or on the wall next to the shelf, or something like this. This is ok.
The problem comes when parts need to be shuffled. In the beginning, you may have few enough axles that they all fit into a 4" bin. Eventually, depending on your policy regarding how stock is managed, you are likely to have enough that you need to shuffle the axles into a 6" bin. And after that, an 8" bin.
This goes for any kind of parts. The giant tub you keep your seats in may eventually be more appropriate for tubes, while the seats get hung on a wall, or put on shelves. Your helmets may outgrow the shelf space they occupy and need to be moved into the shed, and now something else goes on the shelf where the helmets were.
The point is, shuffling. At our shop it happens constantly, at least once a month something gets shuffled from one storage space to another (sometimes stock gets downsized as well).
Previously, it was a tedious process of re-labeling with paper adhesive labels. Eventually there would be a dozen labels on top of one another, like paint in an old house. Not catastrophic, but wasteful, tedious, and inelegant.
The alternative - and this is just as common - is for a place, a shelf or a bin or whatever, to be permanently assigned to a part. I've seen this all over the country, and even in a lot of home workshops. In these cases the storage scheme is fixed, even when it needs to evolve or adapt. I'm sure everyone can think of some corner of their shop where some category of part has been crammed for years if not decades, regardless of whether it works really well there or not. Often this is facilitated by some really cool artwork/lettering that consecrates that spot for that thing. Cool art now tragically enables dysfunction to get institutionalized.
You probably get the idea by now. In a public shop, labels are super important. In a shop where the influx and outflow of parts varies drastically, being able to change labels without collateral is golden.
Up until now, while we have always sorted parts meticulously, we defaulted to not labeling the places we kept them because of the repeatedly validated intuition that it would need to be changed unpredictably. This new idea allows us to potentially have *the best of both worlds*.
@Josh Bisker: Thanks for being supportive of my outburst ;)
@Rebecca Owens: Today I bought 1.88"x5yds rolls of "dry erase tape" at Staples for just under $7.00 as an initial experiment. If it works well I'll look at cheaper sources online.
I'll try and remember to report back how well or wow terribly this works.
-cyclista Nicholas
On 2018-01-28 23:09, Josh Bisker wrote:
And pics showing how you mean to use 'em? I'm super supportive of your excitement! Just can't picture what's making you feel it :)
Josh Bisker 914-500-9890 New York Mechanical Gardens Bike Co-op http://bikecoop.nyc/ 596 Acres http://596acres.org/ Bindlestiff Family Cirkus http://bindlestiff.org/
On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 4:41 PM, rebecca owens rebowens33@hotmail.com wrote:
Do you have a source or a link for these dry erase stickers? Thanks, Rebecca
🐾
On Jan 27, 2018, at 10:12 PM, "cyclista@inventati.org" <
cyclista@inventati.org> wrote:
OMG has everyone heard of dry erase tape and dry erase stickers?!
I was lamenting today that the hot glue idea wouldn't work for tires,
and then I thought dejectedly about how badly adhesive labels always work out. I suddenly had the thought that what would be awesome would be labels that were dry erase, and then I thought someone must have already invented that, and surely enough they exist!! Hell yeah!!
They're a little on the expensive side, but at least for our shop this
will revolutionize our ability to label parts storage. Also a lot of community shops are probably set up to get them donated.
-cyclista Nicholas
On 2018-01-26 08:39, cyclista@inventati.org wrote: I immediately went and wrote down that bit about the hot glue
On 2018-01-26 01:23, Josh Bisker wrote: Pals, we've got a bunch of long skinny red u-line bins (like 4" x 18")
on a
couple long shelves now that are BALLING. They're super easy access for people to get their hands on small and medium sized parts. What are
your
like, top ten or top twenty small or medium sized things that people
need
to get ahold of? What would I not think of, but you're like "oh folks actually need XYZ like all the damn time"? Or do you have cautionary
tales,
like "don't put fifteen pounds of M5 bolts in one of those, they will
get
mixed up immediately with other things and it will suck"? Also check it: we're going to take a tip from Kickstand in Vancouver
and
hot-glue the part itself to the front of the bin, so that no one needs
to
remember just what a thing is called to have access to the magic. Josh Bisker 914-500-9890 New York Mechanical Gardens Bike Co-op http://bikecoop.nyc/ 596 Acres http://596acres.org/ Bindlestiff Family Cirkus http://bindlestiff.org/ ____________________________________ The ThinkTank mailing List Unsubscribe from this list here: http://lists.bikecollectives.org/options.cgi/thethinktank-
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I'd be afraid to have the label be written in dry erase marker which would be vulnerable to accidental wiping off from errant hands/parts.
An alternative to the dry erase setup would be some kind of glossy surface(lamination, packing tape, etc) and Sharpie marker. To clean off the marker, just rub with alcohol/baby wipes.
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 7:57 PM, cyclista@inventati.org wrote:
Lol, ok. Here goes.
So parts get labeled, right? Often with stickers, or someone paints on the bucket or the bin, or on the wall next to the shelf, or something like this. This is ok.
The problem comes when parts need to be shuffled. In the beginning, you may have few enough axles that they all fit into a 4" bin. Eventually, depending on your policy regarding how stock is managed, you are likely to have enough that you need to shuffle the axles into a 6" bin. And after that, an 8" bin.
This goes for any kind of parts. The giant tub you keep your seats in may eventually be more appropriate for tubes, while the seats get hung on a wall, or put on shelves. Your helmets may outgrow the shelf space they occupy and need to be moved into the shed, and now something else goes on the shelf where the helmets were.
The point is, shuffling. At our shop it happens constantly, at least once a month something gets shuffled from one storage space to another (sometimes stock gets downsized as well).
Previously, it was a tedious process of re-labeling with paper adhesive labels. Eventually there would be a dozen labels on top of one another, like paint in an old house. Not catastrophic, but wasteful, tedious, and inelegant.
The alternative - and this is just as common - is for a place, a shelf or a bin or whatever, to be permanently assigned to a part. I've seen this all over the country, and even in a lot of home workshops. In these cases the storage scheme is fixed, even when it needs to evolve or adapt. I'm sure everyone can think of some corner of their shop where some category of part has been crammed for years if not decades, regardless of whether it works really well there or not. Often this is facilitated by some really cool artwork/lettering that consecrates that spot for that thing. Cool art now tragically enables dysfunction to get institutionalized.
You probably get the idea by now. In a public shop, labels are super important. In a shop where the influx and outflow of parts varies drastically, being able to change labels without collateral is golden.
Up until now, while we have always sorted parts meticulously, we defaulted to not labeling the places we kept them because of the repeatedly validated intuition that it would need to be changed unpredictably. This new idea allows us to potentially have *the best of both worlds*.
@Josh Bisker: Thanks for being supportive of my outburst ;)
@Rebecca Owens: Today I bought 1.88"x5yds rolls of "dry erase tape" at Staples for just under $7.00 as an initial experiment. If it works well I'll look at cheaper sources online.
I'll try and remember to report back how well or wow terribly this works.
-cyclista Nicholas
On 2018-01-28 23:09, Josh Bisker wrote:
And pics showing how you mean to use 'em? I'm super supportive of your excitement! Just can't picture what's making you feel it :)
Josh Bisker 914-500-9890 New York Mechanical Gardens Bike Co-op http://bikecoop.nyc/ 596 Acres http://596acres.org/ Bindlestiff Family Cirkus http://bindlestiff.org/
On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 4:41 PM, rebecca owens rebowens33@hotmail.com wrote:
Do you have a source or a link for these dry erase stickers? Thanks,
Rebecca
🐾
On Jan 27, 2018, at 10:12 PM, "cyclista@inventati.org" <
cyclista@inventati.org> wrote:
OMG has everyone heard of dry erase tape and dry erase stickers?!
I was lamenting today that the hot glue idea wouldn't work for tires,
and then I thought dejectedly about how badly adhesive labels always work out. I suddenly had the thought that what would be awesome would be labels that were dry erase, and then I thought someone must have already invented that, and surely enough they exist!! Hell yeah!!
They're a little on the expensive side, but at least for our shop this
will revolutionize our ability to label parts storage. Also a lot of community shops are probably set up to get them donated.
-cyclista Nicholas
On 2018-01-26 08:39, cyclista@inventati.org wrote: I immediately went and wrote down that bit about the hot glue
On 2018-01-26 01:23, Josh Bisker wrote: Pals, we've got a bunch of long skinny red u-line bins (like 4" x
18") on a
couple long shelves now that are BALLING. They're super easy access
for
people to get their hands on small and medium sized parts. What are
your
like, top ten or top twenty small or medium sized things that people
need
to get ahold of? What would I not think of, but you're like "oh folks actually need XYZ like all the damn time"? Or do you have cautionary
tales,
like "don't put fifteen pounds of M5 bolts in one of those, they will
get
mixed up immediately with other things and it will suck"? Also check it: we're going to take a tip from Kickstand in Vancouver
and
hot-glue the part itself to the front of the bin, so that no one
needs to
remember just what a thing is called to have access to the magic. Josh Bisker 914-500-9890 New York Mechanical Gardens Bike Co-op http://bikecoop.nyc/ 596 Acres http://596acres.org/ Bindlestiff Family Cirkus http://bindlestiff.org/ ____________________________________ The ThinkTank mailing List Unsubscribe from this list here: http://lists.bikecollectives.org/options.cgi/thethinktank-
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I think that ultimately is the same thing, difference being packing tape is clear or brown and this dry erase tape is white. I've seen white packing tape before and that would work. So in other words we can try writing on this dry erase stuff with normal marker and seeing how well it erases with alcohol. Because there is such a thing as "wet erase" markers, when I asked around about them everyone seemed to think they were just normal markers , maybe not as indelible as, say, a sharpie.
But yes, accidental wiping off is the most likely failure. We'll see, I'm still cutting the tape into little labels right now.
Some of the dry erase labels sold on Amazon indicate they have a clear covering over each one to guard against touching btw. So you lift up this clear film and write on the label underneath.
-cyclista Nicholas
On 2018-01-30 01:01, veganboyjosh@gmail.com wrote:
I'd be afraid to have the label be written in dry erase marker which would be vulnerable to accidental wiping off from errant hands/parts.
An alternative to the dry erase setup would be some kind of glossy surface(lamination, packing tape, etc) and Sharpie marker. To clean off the marker, just rub with alcohol/baby wipes.
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 7:57 PM, cyclista@inventati.org wrote:
Lol, ok. Here goes.
So parts get labeled, right? Often with stickers, or someone paints on the bucket or the bin, or on the wall next to the shelf, or something like this. This is ok.
The problem comes when parts need to be shuffled. In the beginning, you may have few enough axles that they all fit into a 4" bin. Eventually, depending on your policy regarding how stock is managed, you are likely to have enough that you need to shuffle the axles into a 6" bin. And after that, an 8" bin.
This goes for any kind of parts. The giant tub you keep your seats in may eventually be more appropriate for tubes, while the seats get hung on a wall, or put on shelves. Your helmets may outgrow the shelf space they occupy and need to be moved into the shed, and now something else goes on the shelf where the helmets were.
The point is, shuffling. At our shop it happens constantly, at least once a month something gets shuffled from one storage space to another (sometimes stock gets downsized as well).
Previously, it was a tedious process of re-labeling with paper adhesive labels. Eventually there would be a dozen labels on top of one another, like paint in an old house. Not catastrophic, but wasteful, tedious, and inelegant.
The alternative - and this is just as common - is for a place, a shelf or a bin or whatever, to be permanently assigned to a part. I've seen this all over the country, and even in a lot of home workshops. In these cases the storage scheme is fixed, even when it needs to evolve or adapt. I'm sure everyone can think of some corner of their shop where some category of part has been crammed for years if not decades, regardless of whether it works really well there or not. Often this is facilitated by some really cool artwork/lettering that consecrates that spot for that thing. Cool art now tragically enables dysfunction to get institutionalized.
You probably get the idea by now. In a public shop, labels are super important. In a shop where the influx and outflow of parts varies drastically, being able to change labels without collateral is golden.
Up until now, while we have always sorted parts meticulously, we defaulted to not labeling the places we kept them because of the repeatedly validated intuition that it would need to be changed unpredictably. This new idea allows us to potentially have *the best of both worlds*.
@Josh Bisker: Thanks for being supportive of my outburst ;)
@Rebecca Owens: Today I bought 1.88"x5yds rolls of "dry erase tape" at Staples for just under $7.00 as an initial experiment. If it works well I'll look at cheaper sources online.
I'll try and remember to report back how well or wow terribly this works.
-cyclista Nicholas
On 2018-01-28 23:09, Josh Bisker wrote:
And pics showing how you mean to use 'em? I'm super supportive of your excitement! Just can't picture what's making you feel it :)
Josh Bisker 914-500-9890 New York Mechanical Gardens Bike Co-op http://bikecoop.nyc/ 596 Acres http://596acres.org/ Bindlestiff Family Cirkus http://bindlestiff.org/
On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 4:41 PM, rebecca owens rebowens33@hotmail.com wrote:
Do you have a source or a link for these dry erase stickers? Thanks,
Rebecca
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On Jan 27, 2018, at 10:12 PM, "cyclista@inventati.org" <
cyclista@inventati.org> wrote:
OMG has everyone heard of dry erase tape and dry erase stickers?!
I was lamenting today that the hot glue idea wouldn't work for tires,
and then I thought dejectedly about how badly adhesive labels always work out. I suddenly had the thought that what would be awesome would be labels that were dry erase, and then I thought someone must have already invented that, and surely enough they exist!! Hell yeah!!
They're a little on the expensive side, but at least for our shop this
will revolutionize our ability to label parts storage. Also a lot of community shops are probably set up to get them donated.
-cyclista Nicholas
On 2018-01-26 08:39, cyclista@inventati.org wrote: I immediately went and wrote down that bit about the hot glue > On 2018-01-26 01:23, Josh Bisker wrote: > Pals, we've got a bunch of long skinny red u-line bins (like 4" x
18") on a
> couple long shelves now that are BALLING. They're super easy access
for
> people to get their hands on small and medium sized parts. What are
your
> like, top ten or top twenty small or medium sized things that people
need
> to get ahold of? What would I not think of, but you're like "oh folks > actually need XYZ like all the damn time"? Or do you have cautionary
tales,
> like "don't put fifteen pounds of M5 bolts in one of those, they will
get
> mixed up immediately with other things and it will suck"? > Also check it: we're going to take a tip from Kickstand in Vancouver
and
> hot-glue the part itself to the front of the bin, so that no one
needs to
> remember just what a thing is called to have access to the magic. > Josh Bisker > 914-500-9890 > New York Mechanical Gardens Bike Co-op http://bikecoop.nyc/ > 596 Acres http://596acres.org/ > Bindlestiff Family Cirkus http://bindlestiff.org/ > ____________________________________ > The ThinkTank mailing List > Unsubscribe from this list here: > http://lists.bikecollectives.org/options.cgi/thethinktank-
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