Personal storage system

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For those that were around can anyone ballpark what DMS spent on the slide version of the personal storage bins that used to be in the galley? Part of the COVID stuff is every kid having their own tub and there’s only so much wall space!

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@Brandon_Green – is that the right Brandon?? built them from scratch.

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@dryad2b is correct. @Brandon_Green built them from scratch.

You’re looking for this post. Post #9 shows a sketch of the design and Post #13 shows his Bill of Materials with 2015 costs.

EDIT: Better read all the way to the bottom of that discussion. The original posts were about a 1x4-based design but I think they ended up using a CNC-based approach. That’s discussed later in the thread.

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The build day was impressive, a lot of people showed up … it was truly a one piece flow system that day. There small groups/teams that did tasks. everything was in constant movement once the process started.

  • Grp 1 Plywood brought to Multicam from loading dock area, set on Multicam table
  • Grp 2 Plywood secured and ran parts
  • Grp 3 Sanders, removed pieces from Mulitcam and with sanders broke and smoothed edges
  • Grp 4 moved sanded pieces out to 104 work shop and put on various assembly tables
  • Grp 5 assembled various sub assemblies
  • Grp 6 Pieces then taken near big roll doors, put on card board sheets and they were sealed/varnished (fumes about took everyone out in 104)
  • Grp 5 & 6 Sub-assemblies moved back to assembly tables an assembled.
  • Important group: kept flow of drinks and food coming (Subway IIRC)

There was probably 20+ people in and out through a very long day and folks rotated through the groups. It was a good day of team work, it ran really smoothly, there were a lot of pieces.

Brando had built a rickety looking prototype that had the bins in them with 50 pound bags of sand in each bin, and that sat for a about a week to test if the bins would slowly flex and fall out of theirs slot. None did, then the nice design was developed. If you see one rack that it very different from the others - that’s the original.

Brando also developed and built the roller track system that was in the galley. He did a greatjob.

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Thanks guys! I knew they were made at DMS but didn’t know what ballpark to provide admin for making one of our own

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