Bunker upheaval

bosshoss

bosshoss

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While recovering from a mild bout of the plague, I decided to finally get rid of the heavy wooden boxes once and for all. It turns out to be a huge job, of course. These first two shots show the USA garage section, letters A - G transferred from their wooden cases to their new cardboard modules. They wait on the kitchen table for their ID cards to be added. The table top A-G represents about one third of my USA '60s garage collection, 108 boxes x 25 per box = 2700


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This is what the USA section will look like after I label them. This shot shows the European and Australian '60s garage section, which is now complete. The plan is to eventually replace the pigeon holes with straight shelves customized to fit the boxes, so that no records have to be pushed to the back. I ordered a warehouse-style 3-tier picking trolley to grab boxes of 45s which can then be trolleyed to the stereo for listening sessions. It should arrive on Monday.
Hopefully I won't need to be trolleyed myself at least for a few more years.

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It certainly looks like a bold undertaking. You'll fit a lot less 45s per square feet on the wall compared to the old boxes, but I'd be surprised if you had not figured out long before exactly how much wall space you need to shelf your collection with the new boxes. Keep us posted!
 
The old boxes held 130 per box, packed very tight. The new boxes hold 25, but you can fit 7 boxes per pigeon hole. That is 175 per pigeon hole, 45 more than the old boxes, surprisingly. But only 100 of them are easily accessible.
 
I meant if you stack the new boxes in one row. But as the old boxes left room with the pigeon holes, maybe with new shelves you'll fit the same amount of 45s on the same wall space...
 
bosshoss said:
While recovering from a mild bout of the plague, I decided to finally get rid of the heavy wooden boxes once and for all. It turns out to be a huge job, of course. These first two shots show the USA garage section, letters A - G transferred from their wooden cases to their new cardboard modules. They wait on the kitchen table for their ID cards to be added. The table top A-G represents about one third of my USA '60s garage collection, 108 boxes x 25 per box = 2700


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Good idea. Those wooden boxes look like they probably would be off-gassing varnish if you had much temprature fluctua
bosshoss said:
While recovering from a mild bout of the plague, I decided to finally get rid of the heavy wooden boxes once and for all. It turns out to be a huge job, of course. These first two shots show the USA garage section, letters A - G transferred from their wooden cases to their new cardboard modules. They wait on the kitchen table for their ID cards to be added. The table top A-G represents about one third of my USA '60s garage collection, 108 boxes x 25 per box = 2700


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Good idea. Those old wooden boxes look like they are still capable of shedding varnish microparticles into your irreplaceable stash...
 
gregk25 said:
I meant if you stack the new boxes in one row. But as the old boxes left room with the pigeon holes, maybe with new shelves you'll fit the same amount of 45s on the same wall space...
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The only problem I see is when you have to add 45s into an existing, limited capacity (25) box. I would go bat-crazy!
Perhaps you could slot a few more 45s in each box if you jettisoned those poly sleeves. I hate those things, never use them, only to ship 45s to fellow collectors
I recently completed an archival shift of my 45 bins & boxes; an all-day & evening project to allow for flip-forward roomy-ness in each bin, whereas before the shift, it was nearly impossible to flip, let alone extract any 45 from each one. I had accumulated a pile of 200 45s to file, so a shift session was necessary.
 
Goddamn bosshoss, that looks so awesome (and i mean everything in those pics)! I understand your motivation to switch to lighter boxes but from an aesthetical point of few those wooden boxes sure do look sweet.
 
gregk25 said:
I meant if you stack the new boxes in one row. But as the old boxes left room with the pigeon holes, maybe with new shelves you'll fit the same amount of 45s on the same wall space...
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Oh yeah - If I build new straight shelves, there will be more shelves because each shelf will be only as tall as a 45 with wriggle room. I could have 6 or 7 layers instead of the current 4. so there should be plenty of room.
 
MopTopMike said:
The only problem I see is when you have to add 45s into an existing, limited capacity (25) box. I would go bat-crazy!
Perhaps you could slot a few more 45s in each box if you jettisoned those poly sleeves. I hate those things, never use them, only to ship 45s to fellow collectors
I recently completed an archival shift of my 45 bins & boxes; an all-day & evening project to allow for flip-forward roomy-ness in each bin, whereas before the shift, it was nearly impossible to flip, let alone extract any 45 from each one. I had accumulated a pile of 200 45s to file, so a shift session was necessary.
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I've been thnking about getting rid of the poly bags. If you look at the R&B section, you will see that there are no poly bags (except on 45s with sleeves). I'm going to try that for a few months and if I like it, I will get rid of the bags completely (except for picture sleeves).

Regarding new additions, I will have one pigeon hole for new arrivals, which should take maybe a year to fill. Then I'll file them in their proper places, add new boxes etc.. There are gaps which I left, to leave space for new boxes. Also, each box can take a few more discs before it's really full. I'm not expecting any problems at all.
 
Dave Baldwin said:
Good idea. Those old wooden boxes look like they are still capable of shedding varnish microparticles into your irreplaceable stash...
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I definitely never considered that possibility. However the boxes aren't varnished. They are solid mahogany, and when I ordered them from a local high-end furniture manufacturer abut 20 years ago, I specified no finish for the wood. But it's possible they might have been polished with furniture oil.
 
Hicksville Hogwash said:
You might some of these soon.

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Not recommended for the State of California (or anywhere there are earthquakes). We had an earthquake in
Baltimore, MD in 2010 and the moveable shelving in our archives storage at work sustained structural damage
that ruined the floor track system and rendered them useless and immobile. $25K to replace the damaged units!
 
Dave Baldwin said:
Not recommended for the State of California (or anywhere there are earthquakes). We had an earthquake in
Baltimore, MD in 2010 and the moveable shelving in our archives storage at work sustained structural damage
that ruined the floor track system and rendered them useless and immobile. $25K to replace the damaged units!
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Ouch.

Not many earthquakes in Australia.. I hope.

Thd one I used in UK was a dream.
 
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