O.K. If you want another suggestion for recycling parts, consider the caps from jug-filled water coolers in offices and such. They slip over the neck of the bottle and then their skirt is heat-shrunk to grip the bottle neck, and to open it you tear along a pre-made weak line from a tab. Normally, the cap just goes in a nearby trash can when it is removed. I started collecting them back before I retired. Cut off the remains of the skirts, and you have a collection of small-parts trays (screws, etc) to use when disassembling something. I've got red, green, and blue ones to keep parts from different sub-assemblies separated. Two of them stay in the carrying case for my Milwaukee power screwdriver (the small style used to be AEG, now Milwaukee and Panasonic based on MSC catalog entries. I would have three different colors there if there were room.
Time to work on the project of duplicating the Enterprise's transporter. :-)
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Certainly for national or world-wide use -- but for a local metalworking club were things get shared around it could be a different matter. Ours covers Northern VA, DC, and Southern MD, and there are often posts of "Does anyone have X -- preferably in Northern VA?" on the mailing list.
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That is determined by the area from which it was a remnant.
O.K. The house was expanded by a contractor some years ago (near fifteen now, I think), and I kept the scrap left over from putting aluminum siding over the existing house and the new part. Most of it comes pre-crimped to look like clapboard, but there are pieces used for covering the trim. I think that my widest piece is 12 or 18" wide. And I think that it originally comes in long rolls. So the source would be a construction site. It might even be what is rolled to form gutters by the machine towed behind a truck on a trailer.
O.K. The white version would take a nice set of Kroy labels for the controls. If you use thick aluminum you can engrave labels in it, but if you simply want something to cover extra holes in the panel, this would be great.
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I don't have one of those -- yet. :-)
And the use above for water cooler bottle caps.
O.K. I've got two Fluke DMMs -- one is the 27, and that lives in a carrying case with the probes, extra leads, and the clamp-on ammeter head. The other is the 37 (same functions) but it is designed for bench use and has a storage compartment for the leads and other accessories (including the temperature probe head, which used to live in the other case.)
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BTW I also save the wax off Gouda cheese, melt and save it, and use it for protective dip for cutting tools at need.
That would hit problems here -- the incoming copies in e-mail would quickly grow over the size of my incoming e-mail limit -- to keep viruses out of small mailing lists hosted on my systems. It is already up to 10,877 bytes, and my limit is 30k -- so we are a third of the way there. But either an FTP site or a web page could serve.
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