Shop Boxes

In the Global Connections lab at NASA Ames research center we used these yellow shelf bins.

And I adopted that as my personal standard.

yellow shelf bins

But not everyone likes them. Christine rightly points out that it is basically impossible to keep them clean.

My friend Tom Yoder made these great shop boxes out of plywood, a table saw, a drill and a jig saw.

He wrote up the plans, and it was one of my treasured possessions. I hope I can find the plans.

But I want a different thing. And I have a laser.

  • Take 1/2" wood
  • hold up at 45 degrees
  • cut a prety wedge
  • flip the wood
  • repeat

Make a stop on the right side, push the 1/2" wood against the stop, lifted up 45 degrees Should give endless shop box reenforcements.

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