Subject: WTB: used steel drawer cabinets, blade shear

From: [email-masked] (Jon Anderson)
Date: 13 Jun 1996 03:08:21 GMT

I'm looking for companies between Reno, NV and the SF bay area that
deal in used business furniture, cabinets and such in particular.
What I want are steel drawer cabinets that would readily lend themselves
to being used for drill-tap-end mill indexes. I can find plenty of this stuff new,
and with the annual volumne these outfits have, there just has to be somewhere
to get the stuff used. Sources outside this area would be OK if they do catalog sales.

Also looking for a band saw blade shear. Yeah, I could make one, but I'm just
swamped. I had a blade welder given to me to use as long as I need. I just
hate buying welded blades when I have this welding sitting here.

Jon Anderson
Prototype & Design

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From: [email-masked] (Jonathan M. Elson)
Date: 13 Jun 1996 22:36:23 GMT

Jon Anderson ([email-masked]) wrote:
: I'm looking for companies between Reno, NV and the SF bay area that
: deal in used business furniture, cabinets and such in particular.
: What I want are steel drawer cabinets that would readily lend themselves
: to being used for drill-tap-end mill indexes. I can find plenty of this stuff new,
: and with the annual volumne these outfits have, there just has to be somewhere
: to get the stuff used. Sources outside this area would be OK if they do catalog sales.

I was just at an auction at McDonnell-Douglas.  They had a room full of
beautiful Lista steel tool cabinets, mostly the 11-drawer style.  They
went for $800 - $1000 each, except for one that had been dropped and was
really trashed.  It went for $500!

Make sure you are sitting down when you call around for this type of gear!

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From: [email-masked] (Jon Anderson)
Date: 17 Jun 1996 02:09:58 GMT

Thanks for the punch card cabinet idea. That gives me something to ask for.
I've been using a inventory cabinet, about 6" wide and only about 5/8 deep (per drawer).
They work pretty well for small stuff, but I'd like to get everything into one area.

Jon

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From: [email-masked] (Jonathan M. Elson)
Date: 17 Jun 1996 22:34:01 GMT

[email-masked] wrote:
: I bought and see old punch card drawers all the time for $25 to $50.  They 	
: usually have 20-22 drawers 3" high and 8" wide approximately.  They 
: usually have double slide drawers and each pair of drawers comes out on a 
: tray.  Each drawer will then lift out and can be carried to the work area. 
: I see these sold a lot at Utility company and telephone company auctions.
: They are almost always bought as parts cabinits since they don't fit much 
: anything else useful.  You can also find index card cabinets that will 
: work as well but they are more expensive and usually have a lot of 
: cutouts that make them a poor choice for small loose items. 

Yes, we have quite a few of these around here, too.  They are not much
good for what the original requestor wanted.  They are narrow and shallow.
I think he wanted drawers for mills, drills, etc.  I think you need
drawers with something like 5 - 7" height, and a width of at least 12"
to be able to utilize the space.  For storing screws and similar hardware,
these would be more useful.  We use them to store 8 mm data tapes, and
they are perfect for that.  The Lista cabinets I saw had 11 drawers,
10 of them something like 6" high, and one 10-12" high, 36" deep and
48" wide.  You can put a lot of tooling in a cabinet like that!  And these
cabinets were built of very heavy gauge steel, so you could put many
hundreds of pounds of tools in it without any strain at all.