Putty and Nail idea

Framar

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Since I have acquired the ability to post pictures on the G (bwahahahaha) I thought I would share two of my favorite tips.

I have always kept my brads in muffin tins and since my shop is so small and I hated to have to keep trying to clean the dust out of the brads, I made a sliding shelf using two rails of Neilsen #22 deep moulding, screwed underneath the top of my bench to make "drawer slides" for the muffin tin. Works really well (unless I pull it out too far!).

My next tip is a more recent invention. I bought a bunch of plastic hinged boxes at the dollar store, was using them to store seed beads, but the lids kinda "snapped" open and beads would go flying all over the room. Not good.

So I decided to keep nail hole putty in them and I divided the colors into groups, golds/white/black; browns; brights; and tans. No muss, no fuss, no dust!!!!!

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Mar,

Top picture, bottom right corner.......

Giant spring clips.... right next to the "leave no marks behind" wire.....

Are you torturing Barbi dolls again???
 
Love the bright colored putty, where can i get my hands on that.....
I use alot of those bright color mouldings in my shop.

Great idea!

keep smiling

Marion
 
I like the putty idea a lot, but I wanna know how you got the putty out of the little tins. Wasn't it like scooping ice cream that just came out of the deep freeze? Or did you warm it first?

Contrary to my previous opinion, I think putty that's left uncovered eventually DOES dry up - it just takes 27-3/4 years. I ran into some the other day that almost broke my little Popsicle stick applicator.

Marion, Larson-Juhl used-to-have-and-probably-still-has a putty set for the Framerica laminates. Some of them are pretty snappy.
 
Those are just the regular bright colored set mfrom United, red, green, blue, etc. Not the formica colors. Good for just about anything except a real turquoise color. And after the last can of "walnut" that I ordered turned out to be nearly black - I mix my own colors now! I have enough to last for the NEXT 30 years!!!

I scooped the putty with a 1" spatula/scraper tool - probably did it in the summer when they were more pliable! I never got the idea to heat them until I read it recently on the G.

And, Baer, I use those big clips for a wide variety of uses like clipping my 48" ruler to a 4 x 8 sheet of Plexi or coroplast or gator board to cut it while it leans up against my bench.
 
Framar

I like the idea of using "used" metal frames for rail guides. Have been considering the purchase of a chop saw for the purpose of doing this.

My question to you is do you cut yourself on the ends of the metal frames? I'm fairly accident, injury prone
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and this is one of the minor hurdles stopping me from doing this! I just picture myself removing a layer of skin reaching for the putty!
 
Framar,

Great Idea! I am going to do it now, but was also worried about pulling out the bin to far. I am goin to add a spring to the back so it will not come all the way out.

Thank you for the great idea to solve storage problems inexpensively!

Mark
 
Super idea for getting my muffin tins off my work tables w/the old metal frames! Thanks for showing us the picture. And Baer, great idea about adding the spring clips as a stopping point.

I have my tins of putty arranged on magnetic strips and mounted to the wall so that I keep them out of the way. But, if I didn't, I'd jump on the suggestion posted here.

Recently remounted my large backing paper rolls to the wall vertically. Takes up alot less space so these new space saving ideas are very timely!

Thanks guys! All of you are always so helpful!
 
Bob - I am as injury prone as anyone and I HAVE NEVER CUT MYSELF ON THOSE RAILS!!! (knock on wood!) The rails are set under the bench about a half an inch back so honestly the thought never occurred to me that they would be dangerous. You could also file them smooth to round off the ends...

Mark - please describe spring clip idea a bit further!

I LOVE THIS PLACE!!!

Speaking of muffin tins, I had a visit from a supplier once, an elderly gentleman, who looked at the muffin tin full of nails and remarked, "Isn't it just like a WOMAN to use a muffin tin."

I looked him full in the face and asked, "What is a M U F F I N ?"
 
Great idea!!! You could use a peice of cord tied to the back of the tin and stapled to the table to stop it coming out perhaps.
 
Framar,

Home Depot and stores of the like have a section that has various size springs. What I have done is put a small hole in the back of the muffin tin to attach the spring and then screw the other end under the table. The spring will bow when the drawer is closed and yet not let it fall out when open. Works Great!
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Mark
 
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