[ale] [OT] free hard drive packing box

Jim Kinney jkinney at jimkinney.us
Mon Oct 27 14:24:00 EDT 2014


Would be nice if the thing actually had s bottom. They're just a rim the size of a hard drive with a lip and no bottom. I can put my hand all the way through. Grr.

I could glue in a bottom but I already have a zillion cans and jars and purchased divided boxes.

On October 27, 2014 2:18:44 PM EDT, Brian MacLeod <nym.bnm at gmail.com> wrote:
>Screw trays, particularly for the longer types of screws, or for the
>screw you have tons of.
>
>bnm
>
>On Oct 21, 2014, at 4:19 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I hate to toss/recycle a box that is very specific in it's use but...
>> 
>> It's a box that's used to ship hard drives in the clam-shells boxes.
>It holds 11-20 drives in the anti-static, pink, rigid foam. I also have
>20 clam-shells. Can deliver to the next ALE meeting. After that, it's
>gets tossed into recycling.
>> 
>> I can't devise a single use for the plastic trays that SuperMicro
>uses as spacers in their drive trays. I have 20 of those heading for
>the recycle bin. The older ones were a solid tray. These are mostly
>hole with enough rigid to fake as a drive in the tray. At least they
>ship with all usable trays (unlike DELL which ships with fake spacers).
>> 
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