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Post by timoinsects on Feb 1, 2012 22:29:46 GMT -8
have checked some commercial entomological equipments online shops. only few had it on sale. for the exotic orders,the postage would be very pricy. and the carbinet(with drawers) itself are expensive. so i took my decision to buy a 2nd-hand one or......Make It Yourself. i think display boxes are not convenient,either perfessional relativelly. carbiets are with drawers,pull the drawers to see specimens,very perfessional and convenient. the specimens' 'home' but as it is perfessional storage equipment,unlike daily use carbinet for cloths etc. so the dimention(size) of it is essential/(a must). did you ever made a carbinet yourself or from your carpenter before? or will you consider to make one yourself instead of buying from another country? share us your ideas.
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Post by nomihoudai on Feb 1, 2012 23:23:50 GMT -8
It sounds ridiculous but in my country simple wooden planks needed to make a drawer are more expensive than buying and transporting them from Poland,... so I enjoy wonderful and perfect made drawers from Paradox Company. www.insectnet.eu
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Post by lucanidae25 on Feb 1, 2012 23:43:26 GMT -8
I hate carbinets, they are just not portable.
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Post by africaone on Feb 1, 2012 23:56:01 GMT -8
I prefer to buy them like Claude ! I the past, I bought some meters of profiled woods and assembled the drawers myself. The cost was half the price of the market but you need to be equiped and the quality was far the quality today proposed on European market. A friend calculated that the cheepest way is to order them in China (wholesale of course, group order) and import them in Europe ..... (I don't know details). Of course may be the problem will be the quality.
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Post by timoinsects on Feb 2, 2012 0:30:54 GMT -8
China by now does not have any entomological carbinets on sale but only few display boxes,i hate display boxes i checked many times through internet. carbinets are perfessional storage tools,the inter construction is very important in detailed, otherwise every carpenter could make. if finding a facotory that could accept the large quantity order yes i think the price should be much cheaper. but this way does not suitable for a personal order,need one or just several. also the caribet design sketch would be required from the company.
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Post by bobw on Feb 2, 2012 2:05:50 GMT -8
I envy anyone who's good enough with their hands to be able to make a cabinet. I buy professionally made ones; if I had any idea where to start with making one I'm sure that it would fall apart within a day or two.
Certainly a decent collection needs cabinets; any other storage method is woefully inadequate.
Bob
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2012 3:08:10 GMT -8
"Certainly a decent collection needs cabinets; any other storage method is woefully inadequate"
I agree Bob, no other means of storage comes close, I have made myself cases in the past. its not too difficult with the right tools, I made them 60 cm square but all the best stuff lives in cabinets, I have been fortunate in the past to aquire them cheaply or even in one case for free. If you are just starting out then a well put together home made case can be quite adequate, I have a local collection of butterflies and moths in one of mine, make sure you have a mitre block for the joints though before even attempting it as it needs to be airtight.
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Post by bobw on Feb 2, 2012 3:30:46 GMT -8
"its not too difficult with the right tools"
Maybe for you people with 2 thumbs and 8 fingers Dunc. However, I believe I have 4 fingers and 13 thumbs!
Bob
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Post by prillbug2 on Feb 2, 2012 4:24:17 GMT -8
I make my own cases and cabinets. The wood is cheap here, and I can design them to be any size I want, mainly 20"X 21"x 3.5" tall to acommodate a size 7 pin. I make them for less than a quarter of the price of a professionally made product. It's actually very easy. All you do is build boxes, and place a sheet of glass or plexiglass on the lid and seal it. Nothing to it. Jeff Prill
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2012 6:29:10 GMT -8
There is also a certain satisfaction to seeing something Well made and finished that you have done yourself And at a fraction of the cost.
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Post by leptraps on Feb 2, 2012 9:50:49 GMT -8
I can tell you that having your collection stored in Steel Entomology Cabinets is the way to go. I was employed with the Interior Steel Equipment Co. (ISE) of Cleveland, OH for 11 years. As an employee, I eventually acquired 16 Cabinets including two double compartment that holds 48 Cornell drawers. photograph with of one cabinet with open doors. Aren't you jealous?? These are air tight, light tight cabinets. It was said that you could break wind inside an Interior Steel cabinet, close the doors, open them up ten years latter and still smell it. The new (1995) Smithsonian Off Site Storage facility in Silver Hills, MD has over 15,000 ISE cabinets, These are for all of the major principles. I have acquired several other cabinets (Bio Quip & Lane) now, but I love my ISE's the best. In the next post is a single door 24 drawer cabinet in my work room. The open door covers a Lane 25 Drawer cabinet that is not tight at all. Attachments:
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Post by leptraps on Feb 2, 2012 10:02:30 GMT -8
A single door cabinet with 24 drawer. Between the tenth and eleventh drawer is a pull out shelf. You can work in a drawer right at the cabinet. All ISE 24 drawer entomological and Botany cabinets had the shelf. When ISE was sold in 1996, the Museum Cabinet product line was sold to the Viking Metal Cabinet Co. of Chicago, IL. www.vikingmetal.com/Attachments:
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Post by Chris Grinter on Feb 2, 2012 10:16:37 GMT -8
Nice collection Leroy! The Field Museum has all Viking metal cabinets - and will actually be parting with ALL of them in the near future. They received funding to renovate their collections and compactorize them - so the not so old (and very nice) cabinets have to go. Sadly - they are custom size and do not fit Cornell, AMNH or CAS drawers...
But if you build your own...
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Post by downundermoths on Feb 2, 2012 13:27:39 GMT -8
I have made all my own cabinets... Here is a piccy of two of them... The drawer sizes are 62cm x 62cm (2ft x 2ft) and are deep enough for number 7 pins... Barry Attachments:
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2012 9:49:58 GMT -8
superb workmanship Baz.
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