How can we get a no placing wood on the floor next to the scrap bin trend going? Putting something on the floor leaning up against the scrap bin is not excellent, if there isn’t room on scrap bin, you should throw your piece in the dumpster (or clear other stuff from scrap bin to dumpster)
Not to mention the putting of useless pieces of CNC scrap on the scrap bin
Is this the best scrap bin solution possible for its current location? (The cart migrated from our previous location at ladybird)
What if we just got rid of the scrap bin entirely and said everything has to go to dumpster directly? Or redesigned it so it doesn’t have stuff piled up on 3 sides of it? Maybe a smaller footprint would decrease how much of a mess it attracts?
I use the scrap bin. I’ve even found use for CNC scraps. Sometimes there are large sections of sheet that can be used. Many times i’ve found myself needing to throw together a jig, and the scrap bin has been perfect for it. I understand if you want to get rid of it though. It can get cluttered. Just throwing out my opinion.
Putting stuff like this in the dumpster is already the (unspoken) rule, AFAIK, if just under the “be excellent” clause. And common sense requires it since, as Brandon points out, it is completely worthless. Commonsense would also require it be cut down into manageable pieces so that it didn’t block/clog the dumpster as well.
@rshill Johnson is right…scrap bin serves a good purpose when used and managed as intended. It’s like a bucket of spare nails or set of bins with extra nuts & bolts & washers in it…never know when it will prove useful.
As soon as it is noted (i.e. that p.m. or that a.m.) that a piece like this is left behind, video logs should be reviewed and person responsible notified that (s)he needs to handle situation ASAP.
We don’t need to get all big brother on the scrap bin looking for perps. If you see someone putting in a completely worthless piece please remind them. If a piece that is worthless is already in the bin, use your discretion to toss it out.
That would be exactly the way to encourage bad behavior, not remedy it. And in a particularly egregious case like one at top of the thread, what odds are you giving that some other DMS member is going to cut it down and move it to the dumpster? I want some of that action…
Maybe a clear definition of what “junk” is written on the scrap bin would help. I bet a lot of people think “somebody could do something with this”, when in reality it’s just junk nobody wants anything to do with.
Could put a minimum contiguous 2 square feet required sign, but that would still let people just ignore it.
Was wondering if it could be redesigned to look more like vertical storage, and have a plywood base with a border with words nothing outside this border written on it.
I think something like this would work well, as long as accommodation for smaller to medium blocks and squares and such was incorporated, like some shelves for various small & medium scrap pieces (think something like a column of boxes of increasing sizes). Just not enough to accumulate much, and definitely no enclosed deep bins like what is there now.
I really appreciate the scrap bin for finding something to play with, but I agree there’s a lot of junk in it or pieces that need the trash cut off the piece. As a note some newbies don’t know about the dumpster or what’s okay to toss, while others are just lazy.
I’d prefer to keep both the wood scrap bin and the donation shelf - but eliminate the more obvious junk/trash as mentioned above i.e. brake parts and shocks and useless pieces of wood scrap.
I’ve needed a small piece of wood more than once and taken from and donated to the donation shelf.
