Steve,
Have the same problem at work, I am the parts mngr. for our school dist. bus barn and the label peel off also after a while. I use some of that clear packing tape, some of the really good kind, and tape over the labels. Also works great on cardboard bins also! Hope this helps John

 

Steve,

When I pulled the picture up, I said to myself, that looks a lot like shop, then I realized it WAS mine Small world sometimes.

The labels I use on those plastic containers are from my DYMO Letratag label maker. You can get one almost anywhre for less that $30 and to this day, those labes are still stuck to those boxes 100% end to end.

Hope this helps.

 

Hi Steve -
I had the same problem (I use clear plastic peanut butter jars and baby food jars for storage). I finally just started using glue sticks on the labels (like a lipstick) from the office supply store on plastic containers and cardboard boxes, too. Works great...end of problem!

Roger

 

As you can see Steve, I have quite an assortment of storage containers and hardly a label in sight. They are either transparent or at least translucent, so I can see the contents. During the years that I was in business, I had hundreds of small containers holding small electronic components and I found that contact adhesive applied during the initial fixing was the way to make it permanent.

 

Harry,

Your shop looks like a hardware store

 

Where do you get all those containers? They aren't offered where I live.

I don't have a memory anymore, but I bet I could make your system work.

SB

 

I hate to interrupt a project for the sake of a lack of a screw, nut, bolt or washer etc. I bet when you reach my age Bob you will have acquired a similar collection of hardware and like me, smoking will be but a distant memory. Keep it up, you WILL feel so much better and food will take on a different, very pleasant taste!

 

I tend to use smaller containers, clear (or translucent) without labels. Why? Because if I reorganize, I'd have to get the label off and relabel. If the container is not CLEAR so I can SEE what's in it, then I stick a sample of whatever IS in it on the outside.

 

"Where do you get all those containers? They aren't offered where I live."

Steve, would you believe that I buy them at the supermarket.

 

Harrysin: Can you tell me where I can get neat containers like yours. Especially the ones I show in the photo of your shop.

Thanks

sb

 

Steve,

I have run into a similar problem with my Brother Label Maker that melts the letters onto a piece of mylar type tape. It has an adhesive backing that you must pull the protective cover off of. The labels I had bought at the beginning stay on, I liked it so well, I bought a batch of label rolls. I found that those labels come off after awhile. I attribute that to old aged adhesive. The Avery labels you mention are probably for envelopes and not meant for long term storage. Try putting a strip of Scotch Magic tape across the label. That stuff holds on.

JoeZ

 

Uniformity of labels truly makes a shop look 'ship-shape'. Just across from my office at Flying Tiger Training Center was our warehouse with an entire inventory of 747 parts. And I do mean ALL the parts. Accurate labels were a necessity.

Every department in the company had its own label making machine. Clean, neat labels maintain your sanity. The label-generating machines -- either stationary, or hand-held --- completely eliminate the problem with Avery products. The glue is serious stuff. A lot of our pilots use these on cockpit-panels in their own plane . I have some labels that have been stuck to glass jars for 9 years.

You can by the digital label machines from Brother or Canon for about $50. The better quality ones offer multiple typefaces in larger sizes and a memory for frequent label usage. The tapes come in a rainbow of colors. Ours does double-duty in my wife's office. File cabinets filled with legible key-tabs does wonders for your composure after you receive a love letter from the IRS.

Gary Curtis

 

I will agree with Gary the lable maker works very well , I have two types that I use all the time on plastic boxes,etc. you name it sticks, one is a USB type that I can use on the computer with any font and the other one is like a computer keyboard in away ( battey type) ..

You can use 1/4" to 3/4" wide tapes in may colors or clear...they can be had at Office Max and other office supply outlets at a good low price, BUT like routers the machine is low in price but the lables are not but you can make many lables from one roll....
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Harrysin: Can you tell me where I can get neat containers like yours. Especially the ones I show in the photo of your shop.

Thanks

sb

Whilst I have had most of mine for quite some time Steve,when we do our weekly grocery shop in the next day or two I will see what's currently available.
Regarding labels, as I have previously mentioned, in business I had hundreds of containers, all labelled, all stuck with contact adhesive. NOW, if the labels aren't all dead level with each other, it can look awful!

 

Wifes Tupperware???????????

Whilst I have had most of mine for quite some time Steve,when we do our weekly grocery shop in the next day or two I will see what's currently available.
Regarding labels, as I have previously mentioned, in business I had hundreds of containers, all labelled, all stuck with contact adhesive. NOW, if the labels aren't all dead level with each other, it can look awful!

I think Harry is taking his wifes Tupperware or he goes to all the Tupperware parties he can.

 

ME, pay Tupperware prices! I prefer to give surplus cash to charities.

 

Congrats Bob N. on being smoke free. I have been smoke free for a month and a half.


Tom

 

Congrats back to you Tom and welcome to the forum. I hope it gets a little easier after a month and a half

 

I don't have a calculator handy, but I stopped smoking (40 a day) at 4.00pm June 20th. 1982, that's when I had a heart attack from which I have made a good recovery. Leaving a very stressful job, which was the reason for such heavy smoking was the answer. I re-commenced my own business so that I could go at my own pace.

 

Containers

Harrysin: Can you tell me where I can get neat containers like yours. Especially the ones I show in the photo of your shop.

Thanks

sb

Whilst out shopping today Steve, I took these shots of containers, which while not identical to mine, I could use if I was just starting out. Woolworths supermarket was one place and K Mart the other and there are still heaps of other shops like the $2.00 shop and Cost Plus etc., so if these things are readily available here in sleepy Rockingham Western Australia, they must be available everywhere else in the world!

 

Hi Harry

For that price they should be full of fastners

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Whilst out shopping today Steve, I took these shots of containers, which while not identical to mine, I could use if I was just starting out. Woolworths supermarket was one place and K Mart the other and there are still heaps of other shops like the $2.00 shop and Cost Plus etc., so if these things are readily available here in sleepy Rockingham Western Australia, they must be available everywhere else in the world!

 

I can pick them up in the Dollar stores around me @ 6 for a buck. They make great storage and I also use them for pouring my finishes in when I go to use them on a project.

 

I am on my way to Australia to look at those Harrysin. I live in a remote area and I don't have access to the same stores you have.

I will call upon arrival.

sb

 

By the by, a hardly congraducations on your Day 15 Bob. It will get easier.

You should got buy a bunch of things now for that kind of will power.

sb

 

I can pick them up in the Dollar stores around me @ 6 for a buck. They make great storage and I also use them for pouring my finishes in when I go to use them on a project.

Why do you think that I use empty 1kg honey containers for pouring finishes etc. into Bob.