Storage for Glass

[Carol]

James has just told me he thinks he broke the hacksaw a while back  

Oops - that's a bummer. Tam cut mine with the grinder I think. What he doesn't know is that while he's been away at a stag do today, I've been to B & Q to get some more.....

[Shirley]

I gave up sawing - tried two hacksaws which were useless, then a normal long saw and the rivets fell out, then a short wood saw, which worked fine but took ages. I then went and asked a friend who cuts wood for a living and he sawed 50 bits in about 10 minutes on his fancy electric saw. Find a friend with a fanct saw would be my recommendation

[Billie]

I gave up sawing - tried two hacksaws which were useless, then a normal long saw and the rivets fell out, then a short wood saw, which worked fine but took ages. I then went and asked a friend who cuts wood for a living and he sawed 50 bits in about 10 minutes on his fancy electric saw. Find a friend with a fanct saw would be my recommendation

Or a rugged lumberjack... 

[Shirley]

yeah, that way you don't care how long it takes

[TheJanie]

I'm still at the setting up stage (just received my starter kit from Tuffnells yesterday - goody!) but I've known for a while exactly what I'm going to use for my glass rods...

My husband has a liking for "posh" whisky (you know, the stuff that smells like antiseptic.. oops, sorry, it's apparently "peaty" ) and most of them come in handy tubes

We're both people who can't stand waste (we're both Freecycle Mods too - <waves to beadysam> - I'm the Chorley mod and we're both co-mods of the Southport group) so over the past 4 or 5 years we've built up quite a collection of these things... and they're now all in my workshop

Mind, I expect my collection of glass to grow more quickly than Gavin can drink the whisky   So it's probably A Good Thing that the previous owners of our house left a whole load of plastic piping in the garage when they moved

Cheers,

Janie

[Billie]

Fantastic Janie 

[Billie]

James cut the lengths of pipe yesterday and they stack neatly inside a book cupboard I've been using so I can shut the glass away from the girls too (I work in the kitchen).  We cut the pipe at a friends house as he has a work bench and guillotine type thingy he said would be perfect, but it kept tripping the electrics so James and Paul ended up doing it with a hack saw any way.  Took about half an hour to cut 20 pipes but I now have enough cubby holes for 120 different colours/types of glass should I ever need it.. mwah, ha, ha!

[Mary]

Piccies, please! Wanna see!

[Billie]

I've taken a couple but they're 2MB each... Just need to work out how to make the file smaller... 

[Mary]

Have you got Paint Shop or similar photo editing? It should come with the camera if it's not on your computer already. Just resize image, 350 or 400 pixels is reasonable for uploading. Remember to save it as a copy in case you want the original again. Does that make sense? I sound like I know what I'm talking about!

[Billie]

I've got Photoshop... Back in 5 minutes 

[Billie]

(thanks Q and Mary)

[beadysam]

They soon fill up don't they?  Looks fab!

[Mary]

Very smart and tidy!

[♥♥Tan♥♥]

Hey littleun that looks fab!!