Cheap Steriline Storage Containers.

[jtrade]

Went to the "Dollar Tree" today with my better half to get some cheap stuff.

Found 6qt. (shoe size) w/ blue lid & 3"x5" (note card size) Steriline containers for $1 each.

At least $1 cheaper than anywhere else. I think I paid $2.50 for the 6qt. Steriline I got a while back.

They have a lot of other type storage stuff as well.

Just a heads up of anyone needs some storage containers, big bowls for sorting, etc. Hit up your local "Doller Tree".

You'd think I owned stock or worked there. Might have to apply for a 2nd job there with gas prices & fiance's college tuition/books. :)

J

[MakeMineaP99]

Where's the better half in school at? You need to become a lectrician like JJB, they make the big bucks. ;)

[jtrade]

Albany Technical College. She has about 8 months left.

If I could get hired on through Miller like JJB I would make big bucks like JJB. If some of the **** I take care of goes down. Some of the **** JJB takes care of goes down too. Not to mention some critical servers will make the whole plant useless, pretty much.

J

Where's the better half in school at? You need to become a lectrician like JJB, they make the big bucks. ;)

[MakeMineaP99]

What's her degree in Computer Science?

I thought you both worked at the Brewery?

With what the skilled trades are clearing right now, looking back I should have done tool and die.

[jtrade]

She is going to be a Pharmacy Technician.

There is nothing I couldn't teach her computer science wise. The 5 years we have been together she has learned a crapload PC wise. When we first got together she didn't know what a hard drive was. Now she installs her own pc components & knows more than me about Macs, PDA's, & iPod's than I do. Although when she bricked her iPod Touch I had to fix it. :)

We do both work at the Brewery but I'm a IT/IS Contractor & am out there Tues-Fri.

J

What's her degree in Computer Science?

I thought you both worked at the Brewery?

With what the skilled trades are clearing right now, looking back I should have done tool and die.

[MakeMineaP99]

Yeah, we do the same thing to our IT folks, all contractors, they don't get benefits and it's cheaper for us.

[jtrade]

There are only 2 of us that are Contractors & I'm out there more than the other guy. It would be cheaper for them to hire me & they could get a whole extra day out of me for cheaper. I know what they are getting charged & what I get paid.

Sad, sad, sad. When she is out of school the Company I work for can kiss my white ass. See ya by. Miller will probably make me an offer or I'll just do the work for them through myself & cut out the POS Middle man that only gave me a $.30 raise last year.

J

Yeah, we do the same thing to our IT folks, all contractors, they don't get benefits and it's cheaper for us.

[cohutt]

i need to buy some more cheap containers to store all my cheap containers in.

[jtrade]

You dont have enough brass & boolits then. If you have to store containers in containers. :)

J

i need to buy some more cheap containers to store all my cheap containers in.

[cohutt]

You dont have enough brass & boolits then. If you have to store containers in containers. :)

J

that may be true but i am a container grabber. i find myself keeping small sturdy boxes and the like, just in case i need them.

[jtrade]

Was only joking, cause I got containers storing containers. :supergrin:

I do the same thing. I got quite a few empty plastic Folgers Coffee cans in the closet & some metal ones as well. All kinds of storage containers that are empty of all different sizes. They will come in handy one day is what I tell myself & my fiance.

Some usually do. ;)

J

that may be true but i am a container grabber. i find myself keeping small sturdy boxes and the like, just in case i need them.

[MakeMineaP99]

that may be true but i am a container grabber. i find myself keeping small sturdy boxes and the like, just in case i need them.

Yeah, don't ever tell Cohutt you got containers, he'll bleed you dry. ;)

[zdogk9]

Yeah, don't ever tell Cohutt you got containers, he'll bleed you dry. ;)
Quicker'n if he figures you got wheelweights:rofl:

[cohutt]

Yeah, don't ever tell Cohutt you got containers, he'll bleed you dry. ;)

That mini drum is the best container find I've come across in some time.


As you've witnessed I'm at the stage in brass and lead collection that I need some larger containers, the 5 gallon buckets and kitty litter bins just don't hold enough any more.

I figure that drum is about right- 10 gallons or so, now filled with smallish pure lead ingots. It holds about 325 lbs by my best guess (almost 4 full frb's @ 90lbs each). Much bigger and it either gets too deep to easily reach the ingots at the bottom of it or has too big a footprint.

[Glooooock]

I am about ready to spring for the akro bins , about a $1- $1.80 each for a 4 x7" trays . They go right on the LNL or Dillon press , with a simple rack I could keep all those loads - rejects - sized - primed cases apart .

With different colors you could keep calibers apart without labels . I have filled these bins with battery acid - jet fuel - Acetone ,,,,, they bounce back clean.
They are a standard for small parts warehouses .

[jtrade]

I did that as well.

http://guns.jtrade.us/images/reloading/after.jpg

[craig110]

I am about ready to spring for the akro bins , about a $1- $1.80 each for a 4 x7" trays . They go right on the LNL or Dillon press , with a simple rack I could keep all those loads - rejects - sized - primed cases apart .

With different colors you could keep calibers apart without labels . I have filled these bins with battery acid - jet fuel - Acetone ,,,,, they bounce back clean.
They are a standard for small parts warehouses .

I don't have any problems keeping calibers apart (especially since I reload 9mm, .223, and 12 gauge - it would be tough to get those messed up), but I label my containers so that I know the status of what is inside them. For example, "raw tumbled," "sized," "sized and trimmed," etc. This way, I have a whole assembly line of containers that I can move brass through as I feel like it. If I feel like sizing some brass, no problem. If I feel like trimming some, again, no problem. The brass moves through the pipeline and as long as I keep a decent number in the final "ready to load" container, all is well.

[Glooooock]

I don't have any problems keeping calibers apart (especially since I reload 9mm, .223, and 12 gauge - it would be tough to get those messed up)


Yup , try 9mm -.357 mag -.40 - plated/ jacketed /lead / 500 of each. Being able to finish a box of 30 JHP bullets , move on to FMJ bullet load by just throwing a fresh tray on the press --- is nice.

[craig110]

I don't have any problems keeping calibers apart (especially since I reload 9mm, .223, and 12 gauge - it would be tough to get those messed up)


Yup , try 9mm -.357 mag -.40 - plated/ jacketed /lead / 500 of each. Being able to finish a box of 30 JHP bullets , move on to FMJ bullet load by just throwing a fresh tray on the press --- is nice.


Yes, that would be nice. While I have lots of containers to organize the brass that is in the processing pipeline, I have the exact opposite on the actual reloading step. When I reload, I tend to do a lot of one caliber at a time and I don't jump between plated, jacketed, and lead. Why do you jump back and forth like that?

[Glooooock]

Why do you jump back and forth like that?[quote=craig110;61882]




I have two loads for .45 that are standard . Everything else is a test load , good enough for practice - more powder / different OAL . With old brass I get 95 out of a 100 , crushed case / high primer / no primer ( my alarm arm broke ) .If I cast 500 / size - lube - I keep them separate . I rarely have more than 4 -5 hundred loaded.

[Rick]

but I label my containers so that I know the status of what is inside them. For example, "raw tumbled," "sized," "sized and trimmed," etc.

I didn't feel the need to do that.......

Till earlier this week.

I mixed about 500 freshly tumbled .223 cases with another 500 that were sized and trimmed. It was like slow motion as I realized what I was doing just as I dumped them together. :cryin:

[craig110]

I didn't feel the need to do that.......

Till earlier this week.

I mixed about 500 freshly tumbled .223 cases with another 500 that were sized and trimmed. It was like slow motion as I realized what I was doing just as I dumped them together. :cryin:

:cryin: is right. Do you have a case gauge? Separating them by checking them with that should be faster than (re)processing the whole batch.