Organizing styrene sheet strip stock.

[LDO]

It’s super simple. A hanging file system. My workbench is an interior door from a commercial building, supported by a pair of 2-drawer file cabinets. 

[BDSchindler]

Ya know, this is a great idea.  I have been trying to find a resolution to storing all of the sheet plastic and so forth and this will work perfectly!!!

Thanks!

[Joe Nunes]

The hanging files idea for storing plastic sheets is a good one.  If you don’t have the hanging files you can also use use something like these file holders; use Manila folders with the identity tags as is or put three staples in each side to close/hold the sides shut and make a pouch. 
 

Joe

[robdebie]

Here's my system. My collection of Evergreen, Slaters and Plastruct bags with strip and rod drove me nuts. I could never find the size I was looking for. I solved that problem a few years ago. I used plastic sleeves that are used to put documents in a folder. I used a temperature-controled soldering iron set at 225C to make (say) ten vertical pockets in each sleeve. I made around ten sleeves, and put them together in a paper folder. And then I filled nearly all 100 pockets with all my strip and rod and profiles and metal wire and Albion tubing. I even made small stickers with the dimensions of the content of each pocket. All in all it was a couple of hours work. But it works really well. Every time that I used it ever since made me very happy.

Rob

 

 

[Joe Nunes]

4 hours ago, robdebie said:

Here's my system. My collection of Evergreen, Slaters and Plastruct bags with strip and rod drove me nuts. I could never find the size I was looking for. I solved that problem a few years ago. I used plastic sleeves that are used to put documents in a folder. I used a temperature-controled soldering iron set at 225C to make (say) ten vertical pockets in each sleeve. I made around ten sleeves, and put them together in a paper folder. And then I filled nearly all 100 pockets with all my strip and rod and profiles and metal wire and Albion tubing. I even made small stickers with the dimensions of the content of each pocket. All in all it was a couple of hours work. But it works really well. Every time that I used it ever since made me very happy.

Rob

 

 

Another good storage idea.  

Joe

[Straightliner59]

Back in the late '80s, I was working in a hobby shop/distributorship, and was lucky enough to get this, when we changed locations. It stores all my styrene rod, strip and sheet (except large sheets), and some metal sheet, and all my metal tube, rod and strip stock. The black drawer cabinets behind this also house scratchbuilding materials--flashing, mesh, wire, bar stock, etc.

[Lone Wolf]

If you don't have a file cabinet, there is a thin cardboard "portable" (accordion style,  that expands as it's filled) file/document  holder, with maybe 12 or more sections, that you can organize the sheets in. They have a fold-over style top, held in place with a wrapped on the outside - rubber band closure (possibly a string you wrap around a small circular disk?), to keep things inside. Look in office supply stores for them.

The clear plastic sheet holders mentioned above,  can also hold sheet material, then be put into a three-ring binder, or several.

For now, I'm using a plastic shoe storage box, roughly 12" wide by about 18" long by about 4" deep (from W-mart?), to hold my plastic building supplies...