PANTO PETE’S PRACTICAL STORAGE No.2

PANTO PETE’S PRACTICAL STORAGE No.2

Hi. Continuing on from what is becoming a bit of a theme of making railway accessory storage devices, (see my tool tidy tip from an old dishwasher basket) I’m looking today at making a storage unit for all your scenic scatters and powders from an old CD rack. I was in a charity shop recently and saw this tall, sturdy and small footprint CD rack. With everybody doing digital downloads these days people are throwing out their old CD racks and there are plenty about. They only wanted £3 for this and I thought I can use that! 

I store all my scatters, weathering powders and dusts in re-cycled Chinese takeaway containers of which I’ve built up a large collection (it’s a tough job but someone’s got to do it!). These fit in to the slots, taking 3 slots each, and are almost self-supporting. However to be safe I put old CDs in to make solid “shelves”. First I used full “Jewel-case” CDs but these take up a slot each so then I used the cardboard case CDs like you get free with some magazines or as promotional material,

These worked a treat and putting one every 3rd slot I can get 20 containers in. Suitably labelled they are all there to hand beside my work bench and I can just slot them in and out as I use them.

I appreciate that not everybody is going to be able to get the same unit as I picked up but there must be a lot of them being dumped/re-cycled at the moment. Also your takeaway containers might be slightly different but I think theses are pretty standard sizes and with the CD “shelves” the system would accommodate a bit of variation.

RE-CYCLE   RE-USE RE-PURPOSE

Panto Pete