Glass storage

[brichter]

Argh! I'm totally hosed.

I've reached critical mass, I have no room left in my containers to store game kit glass.

Other than having a custom box amde, does anyone have any  ideas what can be used to store glass on the cheap? (yep, I'm part Scot, and it shows sometimes. )

[Neonkiss]

You could always send them to me...
Then I'll let you come and visit with them once a year.

[brichter]

You could always send them to me...
Then I'll let you come and visit with them once a year.

 


But, you're as far away from me as is possible without leaving the 48 contiguous states. That's an awfully long way to go for a game change! 

[Neonkiss]

Ya, But think of the nice vacation you could have..

[OhioGaming]

Buy more machines.

[brichter]

Buy more machines.

Then I'd have to move into the garage...

[ashyron]

I have already moved into the garage, actually, still working on that room.  I hope I have enough room for storing all the stuff.

[jay]

Bill,

I have reached similar critical mass. In my last house I had taken a whole wall and made it into a glass hanger. I don't have the wall space in this house.

I have since picked up some inexpensive Ikea wooden stands and simply put my glass on that in my storage room.
These are the two tier ones worth about $28 that appear to be made out of unfinished 1x2s. I couldn't buy the hardware and build these from scratch this cheap.

I have the glass standing on edge rather than stacked.

About the only thing I have done "fancy" (relative term) is to take some pieces of wooden dowling and drilled a hole in the middle shelf and bottom shelf

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This has created a "record stand" style holder (albiet much deeper) in the lower shelf that keeps my glass both organized and on edge.
The 20 pieces of dowling (10 front, 10 back) at 1.25ea cost me more than the Ikea shelving.
The dowl just goes through the top shelf and through the bottom to rest on the floor.

I guess one could do this on the upper deck as well but you would either need longer dowels (home depot doesn't sell these) or you would need to find a way to secure them on the middle shelf. I actually have two of these units side by side and have used both sets of lower shelves for slot glass, the upper half is filled with all sorts of other good household junk. Old TVs. Ronco (as seen on tv) appliances etc... 

[brichter]

I understand what you're describing, sounds pretty good for an in-house rack. I'll have to think about that when I move to a bigger place.

We have boxes at work made from corrugated polyethylene that are very strong and have dividers in them, we use them for storing and transporting line cards for out bigger network switches. The one I grabbed is about 3 inches too short, so I can't close it. I'm looking for something that will close properly, and I can line with some type of foam for cushioning.

When I was in the military, we had ammo cans (think 25mm cannon rounds) that might have been big enough, but it's rare to see those in the surplus stores any more. One of them would probably be great for my purposes, as they are sealed when you close them by a rubber gasket on the lid.

[Ron (r273)]

Some of you have already seen these pics but here is what I came up with to store my reel glass. It holds about 30 pieces. And since I have only 30 games or so I still have them on the wall, thanks to Jay's idea. I will be running out of accessible wall space too!

Ron

[Jim]

I had a similar problem, I had over 1000 pieces to store, here is what I did:  I got the heavy duty milk crates ( not the cheap ones sold in box stores), they measure approx. 12x12 x12, cut a piece of foam rubber to size for the bottom , placed it where I was going to put it and loaded it up. you can put 60 to 70 in each crate, depending on you method of stacking. I usually tilted them at a small angle,so I could "page thru them" similar to a card index. Also as I loaded them I wrote down each type of glass so I would know approx. where to go for to find it.

The reason I suggest putting it where you want it prior to loading, once its filled it doesn't move very easy, quite heavy, although it can be slid if on a concrete surface, or moved around with a two wheeler.

So you can store 70 pieces in a 12x12 area and know exactly what is where!

Jim

[jay]

Jim,

I have access to a ton of these and I used to use these for my record collection. These comprised the pillars of my "media center" when in school. I stacked 2x4s on top of the crates and went about 3 rows high. This left room on top for my record player and casette deck. How times have changed.

The slot glass being about 17" wide extends out too far and of course with 16" or round top kits this does present a bit of a problem. I had thought about how to modify some of the cubes such as cutting the back off of one and afixing it to another so I could make them deeper. My reel (pun intended) quandry however came in the form of how to join the two parts. Wire ties were high on my list but that would make it look a bit like one of those joke emails entitled "You might awt to be a red neck if...." and of course might poise a risk in moving them.

I like what Ron did - all the glass being about the same width allows him to put it on its side and keep the entire glass kit together. If anyone has ever been lucky enough to receive one of Rons custom chip boxes you will appreciate just how good a craftsman he is.