RudiGreyling
Well Known Member
I searched and tried various methods of organising my rivets with no success until now.
I hope you LEARN from my experience and find it USEFULL!
Initially I kept my rivets in the brown bags Vans send them in, but the bags get worn, is difficult to organise and one do not have a single view over all the bags to pick the right one immediately.
Then I put my rivets into the carry case bin organisers, similar to the picture at the bottom of my post:
Kind Regards
Rudi
All the tools required to do the job
Can you believe this is all the wing kit rivets in such a small combined space? Previously I had to use 3 of these organisers.
I hope you LEARN from my experience and find it USEFULL!
Initially I kept my rivets in the brown bags Vans send them in, but the bags get worn, is difficult to organise and one do not have a single view over all the bags to pick the right one immediately.
Then I put my rivets into the carry case bin organisers, similar to the picture at the bottom of my post:
- I found it difficult to take out a whole lot of rivets at one time and I almost always dropped some into the next bin, combining different types, then having the search for that dropped rivet.
- The carry bin organiser is so big it gets in the way and then it is easy to accidentally drop the case while riveting, which means all the rivets land up on the floor, causing havoc to arrange them again.
- The size is inconvenient to work with.
- You will have to use multiple carry case organisers to sort all the rivets.
- This worked much better as long as you keep the same rivet size per little drawer.
- Unfortunately the little drawers do not have a lit, to seal up
- This is expensive but very neat option ,
- and it takes up a lot of space
- It is Free, just go to you local photo developing shop and ask them to keep them for you, since they usually throw them away. Give them a plastic bag and within a couple of days you will have a lot.
- It is clean due to the nature of film, people usually keep the canisters clean.
- You do not have to take of messy stickers usually found on other used household canisters.
- It is small and easy to handle.
- It has a lid to seal it up.
- You can write on the lid with your trusted sharpie pen, if you get the grey or white lids.
- You?ll be surprised at the amount of rivets it will hold, and it is easy to have numerous of the same containers if required. (I used bigger containers for the large amount of rivets (3-3.5 & 3-4) but poured some over into smaller Film Canisters while working.
- You can easily fit all the film canisters into a single carry case bin organiser.
- I have printed out the labels on an ordinary black and white printer on normal paper cut them out, and attach with clear sticky tape.
- Here is the Microsoft Spreadsheet if you want to use my labels.
Kind Regards
Rudi
All the tools required to do the job
Can you believe this is all the wing kit rivets in such a small combined space? Previously I had to use 3 of these organisers.
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