<div>This solution doesn't solve any of the problems: �it doesn't make them less visually cluttered, it doesn't make them harder to browse, and it doesn't make them easier to move.</div><div><br></div><div>
Also, probably half our shelves or more are being occupied by people who are not really doing anything with the stuff on the shelf. �If these were bins, we could easily move unused bins to a backstock area (say, high shelves up on the walls) and save easily-accessed space for those of us who use a lot of bins.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you go look at the bins currently in use on our member shelves, the vast majority are broken in some way; I think rugged bins is a must for the high-impact Noisebridge environment.</div><div><br></div>
<div>--S</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Jake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jake@spaz.org">jake@spaz.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
As someone who has a lot of crap on my member shelf (which i intend to<br>
reduce) i want to point out that the use of cubbies is a fail, in the<br>
sense that we will be losing 20% of our potential storage volume for these<br>
things.<br>
<br>
those particular cubbies are designed to be rugged (for moving stuff in<br>
cross-country semi trucks) and to be stackable, tall, without falling<br>
over.<br>
<br>
There are cubbies available which are much thinner-walled and have less<br>
draft angle, so you get more space.<br>
<br>
But a better solution would be for people to install thin flat material to<br>
their shelves, turning the entire shelf into a tray.<br>
<br>
What happens when you put stuff on a flat surface, with nothing at the<br>
edge but a precipice? �STUFF FALLS OFF!!!!!!<br>
<br>
I think you should save your hundreds of dollars and instead pay yourself<br>
to attach thin flat material to all the shelves, to make them more into<br>
enclosures than elevated flat platforms.<br>
<br>
They can even be fully enclosed! �the shelves provide the structure!<br>
<br>
also, my friend had a tub as his shelf (his entire project was inside the<br>
tub) and the tub was found by me the other day NEXT TO THE EWASTE BIN. �It<br>
no longer had his name on it (the paper tag had somehow come off?) but it<br>
was obviously someone's stuff. �I put it back on a shelf.<br>
<br>
Tubs can move around! �Shelves (with enclosing walls) won't!!!!!<br>
<br>
-jake<br>
<br>
Shannon Lee wrote:<br>
we ought to buy 80 of these: �<a href="http://is.gd/UCQIsE" target="_blank">http://is.gd/UCQIsE</a><br>
<br>
then everybody gets a bin; the bins are lockable; and we can move things<br>
around without mixing up everybody's stuff and making a mess.<br>
<br>
I have a couple of hundred bucks to put into a "get us some bins" project.<br>
<br>
--S<br>
<br>
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