/diy/ - Do It Yourself

If you're going to use it, roll it up on a spool. If its trash, trash it or get a chipper on contract with a recycling plant or something.

If its a couple feet that's useful 6" PVC pipes mounted to your trucks with caps you can take on and off

Get a bunch of those wallmounted garden hose hangers.

>transport easily

Uh... make some shitty spools out of a piece of 4x4 and plywood on both ends.

narrow cardboard boxes

>>675660
>>675755
>>675761
The lengths are like half a foot to two feet. Everything is shit.

wrap them in bundles, run it through a bandsaw to smaller pieces?

>>675872
They need to continue to be half a foot to two feet.

>>675856
I think youre shit out of luck OP. if it were longer pieces I would say get some smaller spools like rope and wire come on, then put it on that. this .5-1' stuff is just going to have to say in trash cans

google "glass rod storage" and sort for images and you'll see a lot of ways people have approached the problem of sorting and storage that more demanding but rigid material. Might give you helpful ideas.

Are there any standardizations? that is to say, do you always keep certain lengths of certain sizes? Because that way you could plan it out a little. Noodle around with some heavy cardboard tubing, like mailers, and once you settle on something you can re-build it with segments of pvc and wood instead of cardboard and duct tape.

>>675646
Thread a string through them and roll the resulting continuous piece on a spool.

>>675646
Thread a string through them and roll the resulting "continuous" length of tubing up on a spool.

Have a separate storage room with rails on the ceiling and the rolls of tubing suspended on them with different racks for different sizes. Every rail merges into only one that goes to production in a different room through a threshold or something, you could alternatively have different tracks for each one if more than one size is used at the same time in production. You could move it around manually with a hook.

You can also mount each new roll from the back so you make sure it is consumed from older to newer.

A nice storage project if I might say. You could even mount motors on each roll and have it be done automatically. Perhaps even do it in 2 dimensions so you have double the storage capacity.

>>676135
Maybe have the rail system loop around so any used up rolls can be driven away to material handling or whatever it is the department responsible.

>>676135
This is an odor management system dude, not a full scale production or something. We use the tubes like pic related.

>>675962
That glass rod storage seems a bit promising, I'll look into it. There's no standardization at all, so I think we're fucked.

At least I know that I''m not completely retarded for not thinking of something.

>>675646
What lengths do you purchase them in?
Are they generally straight or coiled?

>>676324
I dunno, probably like 10 foot sections or something like that. We cut them down immediately though. We can roll them up into like a one foot roll before they get kinked and shitty. It's pretty hardy tubing.

a bigger piece of tubing

cant believe you've never seen a tradesman with a pvc conduit holder mounted to their car.

You know you could like, put wooden dowels in them, so they stay straight.

>>676378
Maybe would work.

>>676392
That is too much of a hassle.

>>675646
tuuuuuuubes

>>676372
>10 foot sections or something like that. We cut them down immediately though

I have a suggestion then. Use cut down PVC pipe to make a set of vertical wall mounted inclined troughs, with elastic to make sure the bits don't fall out. The smallest pieces will go to the bottom, so you know where to look if you only need a nubbin.

Get 4" PVC Pipe at a length that is sufficient for 90% of your pieces. Glue on an end cap. When the glue dries, slice it in half leaving two half pipes with one end closed. Glue a 2"x4" rectangle of PVC, Perspex, wood, or whatever you have across the front of the cap so that the nubbins don't sneak out. Drill pairs of 1/4" holes every 4-6" along the edges, and thread these with elastic. Attach a 3" block of wood shim at the back bottom of the trough and screw the whole thing to a wall.

Pic related.

This is superior to a closed pipe in that you can see what you have, and use the little pieces but it is unsuitable for mobile applications because you don't want it all to fall out. Since you have multiple sizes, you can setup multiple tubes, one per size?

I see an issue with this though. If your pieces have a natural curve to them then they might poke out of the trough and be messy.

>>676496
Man, this guy went all out. Nice thinking, guy, but I don't think it'll work as our pieces have all the natural curvature, and most of them are probably too long for your contraption idea. Would work in other circumstances, though. Props.