Organising plastic strip, rod, and tube.

[seadude]

From time to time, I've read various threads on model forums showing what people's workbenches look like, either messy or organised. The only modeling space I have is the kitchen table, with a few shelves off to the side in a small nook. I've been organising and cleaning things up the last two days, but there's one issue I'm having trouble with: How does everybody organise and store the long strip, rod, and tube, etc. that you get from Evergreen or Plastruct, or elsewhere? I need some good ideas. If you got a pic of how you organise/store plastic rod/strip, then please show if possible.   Thanks.

[scooter]

For a lot of my storage, I used a plastic rollaway multi-drawer storage thing.  I've also take to using desktop storage drawers from Staples for paints and nonsuch

[martinbayer]

Seadude,

the links below show potential solutions:

http://www.modellversium.de/tipps/3-nuetzliches-aus-dem-alltag/8039-.html

http://www.modellversium.de/tipps/3-nuetzliches-aus-dem-alltag/8040-.html

Even though they're in German, the pictures make it clear.

Hope this helps,

Martin

[Go4fun]

I used to use verical tubes on a base or inner door for rod, tubing and bars. PVC is easy to glue and you can get glue on caps. I keep sheet plactic in drawers.

[kerick]

I cut some 1 1/4 inch PVC pipe into 4 to 6 inch pieces and glued them to a plastic base. Also I keep rod and such inn their plastic bags in a drawer for a computer keyboard. This stores it all right below my desk top.

[Weaver]

I have some long drawers intended for CDs from an old storage unit.

When I first got some Evergreen, I decanted it all so it was loose, first in vertical tubes, then in the drawer. Big mistake: you end up endlessly measuring and comparing it to figure out what's what and how much you've got of any given size. Now I leave it in the packets, even though they take up a bit more room: much easier to figure out what you've got and not got.

[Dizzyfugu]

I have been using a simple, old (and heavy) marmelade glass... does the part on the table for single strips and packs.

[Father Ennis]

I just store strip,rod,etc., in the original bags. I need to know what I have and/or need to get more. I store the bags in the large box from a model I "finished". For the workbench, I just use a couple of the bags to hold my ready use supplies. I store my modeling and metal working tools in an old chest of drawers my neighbours were going to throw away. I got drawer pulls from some other things my neighbour had cleaned out of his garage. Total cost : 0$US.