Discovery for frugal shippers

Re: Discovery for frugal shippers

Larry

Why not just put the New label over the Old one?

Works well for bumper stickers too!

Re: Discovery for frugal shippers

Thomas Skaggs, Foothills of Mount Level

Bill, you keep a hair drier in the shop for a multitude of tasks? Does that include styling your hair? If you are anything like me, I always want to look sharp in the shop. Fashionable attire is a must too. Who am I wearing? When I dress to the nines I always wear couture from the House of Carhartt. T.

Re: Discovery for frugal shippers

Tom Dunlap

After burning out, and promptly replacing, two household blow dryers I bought an industrial heat gun. That was over 30 years ago. I put on a new and longer cord with a piece of plastic tubing for a strain reliever at the base of the handle. A very helpful tool

I'm a frugal shipper too! I learned a lesson about USPS regs. NOt allowed to ship in a liquor box. Fortunately I hadn't put on postage. I went home, cut open the box, turned it inside out and retaped.

resuing boxes

John K Jordan

I have reused heavily printed and labeled corrugated cardboard boxes by slicing through the glue line and turning inside out and gluing back together. This can make a used box look like new, even if it had been printed with "Caution, Radioactive Liquor Bottles and Hazardous Waste".

(Forget where you heard this but you can also turn a USPS flat rate box inside out to send it a different way.)

+1 on the industrial heat gun. When it's too much heat, I also keep a mini heat gun made I think for craft and electronic use. It has lower wattage and a smaller nozzle for more closely directed heat.

https://www.amazon.com/TEMPERATURE-482-662F-120VAC-350WATT-APPROVED/dp/B00C9O34MG

JKJ

Re: Peanut containers

CharlieL

I use to use plastic coffee containers to store nuts and bolts, etc. in. Now I use the Fisher brand square peanut containers. Unlike the colored coffee containers, they are clear so I can see at just a glance whats in each container. They do have a pretty good size sticker on them that are very hard to remove. I may have to cautiously try the hair drier and see if that helps.

Re: Discovery for frugal shippers

Mark Nowicki

"Some on this forum have demonstrated frugal inclinations"

Truer words were never typed.

I don't need to have this forum bookmarked, my mouse just follows the sound of pennies screaming in pain from being squeezed so hard.

Frugal: defined

Tom Dunlap

When the hand only lets go of money to get a tighter grip on it---Gary Albig

Re: Frugal: defined

Yonak

My wife cautions me about disturbing the moths when I take out my wallet.

Caution heating plastic containers

Bill Tindall, E.Tn.

Plastic containers are made by two processes, simple molding and stretch blow molding. If the container is PET (see recycle code on bottom) don't heat. These containers are made by blowing hot plastic into a mold like a balloon. When the plastic hits the wall of the cold mold it freezes into the shape of the mold. When reheated the bottle will try to return to the size and shape of what got blown into the mold (the balloon "deflates").

Experiment to amaze your children. Put an ounce of water into a 16 or 20 oz soda bottle. Heat in microwave to boil the water and watch the bottle shrink to a much smaller bottle. The plastic will turn white as the polymer molecules crystallize. (the microscopic crystals scatter light like a delusterant in a finish)

I think peanut butter jars are PET.

Re: Frugal: defined

Mark Nowicki

Re: resuing boxes

Don Orr

You know all the coolest toys John!

Not the House of Carhartt here

Howard in Toronto

But I carefully manage my tuxedo and cape while I'm in the shop!

Howard