Looking for project boxes
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The Altoids mints come in a neat tin box that is just the size for a small
project. I have used one for a small power supply and for a couple of
others. I would like to find a source of these boxes (possibily unprinted)
this size or larger for more of the same. I hate to keep buying Altoids just
for the boxes. Don't particulary like the candy so it goes to waste.
Not quite sure how to search for them with Google either.
Any enlightenment will be appreciated.
TIA
Vic
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project. I have used one for a small power supply and for a couple of
others. I would like to find a source of these boxes (possibily unprinted)
this size or larger for more of the same. I hate to keep buying Altoids just
for the boxes. Don't particulary like the candy so it goes to waste.
Not quite sure how to search for them with Google either.
Any enlightenment will be appreciated.
TIA
Vic
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KC2GUI www.windsway.com
Home of the WindReader Electronic Theodolite
Read the WIND
"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long
and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival."
- Winston [noparse][[/noparse]Leonard Spencer] Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?
-Count Oxenstierna (ca 1620)
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> The Altoids mints come in a neat tin box that is
> just the size for a small
> project. I have used one for a small power supply
> and for a couple of
> others. I would like to find a source of these boxes
> (possibily unprinted)
> this size or larger for more of the same.
Radio Shack carries a wide variety of plastic
enclosures, from the size of a pack of cigarettes, to
the size of a cigar box, and bigger. Most are between
$2.00 - $20.00, or more for the fancy ones. I have
found some in their bargain bins before too, great
deals then. One good example is their Cat#
270-283. If you wanna get a little better deal, check
B.G. Micro http://www.bgmicro.com or www.jameco.com
> I hate to
> keep buying Altoids just
> for the boxes. Don't particulary like the candy so
> it goes to waste.
I don't like them at all...But I'm kinda surprised you
would use a metallic box for general projects.
anyway, hope this helps.
=====
Chris Savage
Knight Designs
324 West Main Street
Montour Falls, NY 14865
(607) 535-6777
http://www.knightdesigns.com
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From: Vic Fraenckel [noparse]/noparse]mailto:[url=http://forums.parallaxinc.com/group/basicstamps/post?postID=ywsZJ-nqyE88y4BUirpWrlhlXRxeQnp_KWEJ4TiXDqnK1gIxhb5Bk9uOkMTj16tkaw9TScU47GlHQjmz]vfraenc1@n...[/url
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 1:49 PM
To: BasicStamps
Subject: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] Looking for project boxes
The Altoids mints come in a neat tin box that is just the size for a
small project. I have used one for a small power supply and for a couple
of others. I would like to find a source of these boxes (possibily
unprinted) this size or larger for more of the same. I hate to keep
buying Altoids just for the boxes. Don't particulary like the candy so
it goes to waste.
Not quite sure how to search for them with Google either.
Any enlightenment will be appreciated.
TIA
Vic
________________________________________________________
Victor Fraenckel - The Windman vfraenc1@n...
KC2GUI
www.windsway.com
Home of the WindReader Electronic Theodolite
Read the WIND
"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however
long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no
survival."
- Winston [noparse][[/noparse]Leonard Spencer] Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is
governed? -Count Oxenstierna (ca 1620)
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|Radio Shack carries a wide variety of plastic
|enclosures, from the size of a pack of cigarettes, to
t|he size of a cigar box, and bigger.
I really want to find a commercial source of boxes like the Altoid ones.
Believe me, I have a requirement!
Vic
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"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long
and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival."
- Winston [noparse][[/noparse]Leonard Spencer] Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?
-Count Oxenstierna (ca 1620)
try future active electronics. They carry a wide variety of plastid
enclosures with many sizes. You may find a retail store of theirs, Active
Electronics wherever you are. it's a great place to spend ($) some time
looking for everything you need in parts I do
mike m
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From: Vic Fraenckel <vfraenc1@n...>
To: BasicStamps <basicstamps@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 7:51 PM
Subject: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] RE: Looking for project boxes
> Chris Savage wrote:
> |Radio Shack carries a wide variety of plastic
> |enclosures, from the size of a pack of cigarettes, to
> t|he size of a cigar box, and bigger.
>
> I really want to find a commercial source of boxes like the Altoid ones.
> Believe me, I have a requirement!
>
> Vic
> ________________________________________________________
>
> Victor Fraenckel - The Windman vfraenc1@n...
> KC2GUI
www.windsway.com
>
> Home of the WindReader Electronic Theodolite
> Read the WIND
>
> "Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however
long
> and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival."
> - Winston [noparse][[/noparse]Leonard Spencer] Churchill (1874 - 1965)
>
> Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?
> -Count Oxenstierna (ca 1620)
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Back when I was in high school, the coolest thing was to build projects in a
Sucrets box -- they came way before Altoids. Unfortunately, now the boxes
are plastic. Of course we had wooden cigar boxes to store our stuff in as
well.
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> |Radio Shack carries a wide variety of plastic
> |enclosures, from the size of a pack of cigarettes, to
> t|he size of a cigar box, and bigger.
>
> I really want to find a commercial source of boxes like the Altoid ones.
> Believe me, I have a requirement!
plastic boxes, that some of the parts come in, make great project cases too.
I used one for my little servo tester project.
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Not making those communicators like the movie "Blankman" are you? <grin>
Back when I was in high school, the coolest thing was to build projects in a
Sucrets box -- they came way before Altoids. Unfortunately, now the boxes
are plastic. Of course we had wooden cigar boxes to store our stuff in as
well.
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> |Radio Shack carries a wide variety of plastic
> |enclosures, from the size of a pack of cigarettes, to
> t|he size of a cigar box, and bigger.
>
> I really want to find a commercial source of boxes like the Altoid ones.
> Believe me, I have a requirement!
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here still . . .
if you really want an altoids style box you should
probably look to the box maker. They would probably
send you twenty or so as samples.
Try MetalBox (Europe) or Crown Cork and Seal (in U.S.)
to get started. They are big companies so you'll have
to do a lot of detective work to get to where you need
to be.
--- Rodent <daweasel@s...> wrote:
> Not making those communicators like the movie
> "Blankman" are you? <grin>
>
> Back when I was in high school, the coolest thing
> was to build projects in a
> Sucrets box -- they came way before Altoids.
> Unfortunately, now the boxes
> are plastic. Of course we had wooden cigar boxes to
> store our stuff in as
> well.
>
>
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>
> > |Radio Shack carries a wide variety of plastic
> > |enclosures, from the size of a pack of
> cigarettes, to
> > t|he size of a cigar box, and bigger.
> >
> > I really want to find a commercial source of boxes
> like the Altoid ones.
> > Believe me, I have a requirement!
>
>
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the top of a wooden cigar box, with a power supply, your parts and wires
tucked inside.
If your dad worked at General Dynamics, you had one of the fancy yellow
wooden Pickett slide rules, otherwise you had a crappy plastic one from
Motts 5 & 10.
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> sucrets and cigar boxes . . . I have a few around
> here still . . .
slide rule. It was a long time before Dad let me use his cool Picket. Us
poor kids marveled at the guys with the new HP-45, but few of us had $500 to
spend on a new fangled calculator (back in the early 1970's). Bet you even
remember IBM punch cards for programming.
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Subject: Re: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] RE: Looking for project boxes
Yeah, if you were a cool kid you had your solderless breadboard screwed to
the top of a wooden cigar box, with a power supply, your parts and wires
tucked inside.
If your dad worked at General Dynamics, you had one of the fancy yellow
wooden Pickett slide rules, otherwise you had a crappy plastic one from
Motts 5 & 10.
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> sucrets and cigar boxes . . . I have a few around
> here still . . .
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>Damn Rodent you are an old man. I started out in school with a plastic
>slide rule. It was a long time before Dad let me use his cool Picket. Us
>poor kids marveled at the guys with the new HP-45, but few of us had $500 to
>spend on a new fangled calculator (back in the early 1970's). Bet you even
>remember IBM punch cards for programming.
The generic IBM punch card was known as a 5081 ! Here I thought I was the only
one who remembered such ancient things.
I managed to wangle a yellow and white Pickett for my birthday one year.
Bruce Bates
formatted for the punch-card layout, but done on a terminal. In high school,
we had an old teletype-style terminal with an acoustic modem we dialed into
the school mainframe with. We could program in Basic and Fortran. The
advanced students had a plotter and CRT terminal they could use. We could
actually save a few programs on the machine itself -- the students prior to
me saved / loaded their code on paper tape.
I had the cheap plastic slide rule, although a few had the Pickett slide
rules and one had an HP calculator -- I remember playing lunar lander on it.
I had one semester of chemistry with a slide rule, and then they started
allowing calculators. Some of us even had computers -- I was thrilled to get
my Tandy Model 1 when I was 16. Also remember paying $50 for a LED digital
watch.
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> Damn Rodent you are an old man. I started out in school with a plastic
> slide rule. It was a long time before Dad let me use his cool Picket. Us
> poor kids marveled at the guys with the new HP-45, but few of us had $500
to
> spend on a new fangled calculator (back in the early 1970's). Bet you
even
> remember IBM punch cards for programming.
> Yeah, if you were a cool kid you had your solderless breadboard screwed to
> the top of a wooden cigar box, with a power supply, your parts and wires
> tucked inside.
>
> If your dad worked at General Dynamics, you had one of the fancy yellow
> wooden Pickett slide rules, otherwise you had a crappy plastic one from
> Motts 5 & 10.
>
>
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>
> > sucrets and cigar boxes . . . I have a few around
> > here still . . .
giant Pickett slide rule hanging from the ceiling. These were the ones that
hung above the chalk board that the teacher used to teach slide rule with
and work problems on. I think it goes with the giant vernier calipers
(~5-foot measurement range) hanging in the local machine shop supply house.
I think I will take my slide rule and a couple of records to the next DPRG
meeting and see if any younger members know what they are.
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> >Damn Rodent you are an old man. I started out in school with a plastic
> >slide rule. It was a long time before Dad let me use his cool Picket.
Us
> >poor kids marveled at the guys with the new HP-45, but few of us had $500
to
> >spend on a new fangled calculator (back in the early 1970's). Bet you
even
> >remember IBM punch cards for programming.
> The generic IBM punch card was known as a 5081 ! Here I thought I was the
only
> one who remembered such ancient things.
>
> I managed to wangle a yellow and white Pickett for my birthday one year.
package of $5 each cigars usually nets you a cardboard box. Some of the
local shops still sell / give away the wooden boxes, but if your kid took
one to school they would probably suspend him / her.
We were blessed with a military surplus place, so lots of our stuff revolved
around metal packing crates / cases or 19" rack stuff. Of course we also
used 19" rack stuff at work, so all the "scrap" parts tended to follow us
home from time to time.
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> Cigar boxes are still to be had, if you don't mind parting
> with a bundle for the stogies [noparse]:)[/noparse]
>
> Picketts were mostly aluminum IIRC - Dad did'nt work for GD,
> so I struggled with a Versalog (still works fine, btw).
>
> For REAL projects it's hard to beat the cu.in./$ of filing
> cabinets - Saw a vacuum tube digital computer which played
> checkers at a science fair once, displaced 6 huge cabinets.
> Dad must've owned GD...
daweasel@s... writes:
> There is a restaurant around here somewhere (Dallas / Fort Worth) that has a
> giant Pickett slide rule hanging from the ceiling. These were the ones that
> hung above the chalk board that the teacher used to teach slide rule with
> and work problems on. I think it goes with the giant vernier calipers
> (~5-foot measurement range) hanging in the local machine shop supply house.
>
> I think I will take my slide rule and a couple of records to the next DPRG
> meeting and see if any younger members know what they are.
What is a slide rule?
Just kidding, I am 43 y.o. but fortunately (i think) we had calculators when
I graduated from high school in 1977. However, my first real job in the
summer of 1977 was working in an emissions testing laboratory. I remember
loading programs from a reel of paper tape with LOTS of holes in it..... hehe
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with a bundle for the stogies [noparse]:)[/noparse]
Picketts were mostly aluminum IIRC - Dad did'nt work for GD,
so I struggled with a Versalog (still works fine, btw).
For REAL projects it's hard to beat the cu.in./$ of filing
cabinets - Saw a vacuum tube digital computer which played
checkers at a science fair once, displaced 6 huge cabinets.
Dad must've owned GD...
regards, Jack
Rodent wrote:
>
> Yeah, if you were a cool kid you had your solderless breadboard screwed to
> the top of a wooden cigar box, with a power supply, your parts and wires
> tucked inside.
>
> If your dad worked at General Dynamics, you had one of the fancy yellow
> wooden Pickett slide rules, otherwise you had a crappy plastic one from
> Motts 5 & 10.
used Frieden mechanical calculators, with an entry handle like an old
cash register. A Taylor series expansion would produce a sore arm. As
to computers, my first programming class was on a Univac I. No
compiler, no assembler, just memorizing a string of zeroes and ones for
ADD, STORE, etc. As a vaccuum tube machine, the Univac usually had
about 200 blown tubes at any given time, so a program wouldn't produce
the same answer twice in a row.
Dennis
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In a message dated 3/1/2003 7:32:45 AM Pacific Standard Time,
daweasel@s... writes:
> There is a restaurant around here somewhere (Dallas / Fort Worth) that
> has a giant Pickett slide rule hanging from the ceiling. These were
> the ones that hung above the chalk board that the teacher used to
> teach slide rule with and work problems on. I think it goes with the
> giant vernier calipers (~5-foot measurement range) hanging in the
> local machine shop supply house.
>
> I think I will take my slide rule and a couple of records to the next
> DPRG meeting and see if any younger members know what they are.
What is a slide rule?
Just kidding, I am 43 y.o. but fortunately (i think) we had calculators
when
I graduated from high school in 1977. However, my first real job in the
summer of 1977 was working in an emissions testing laboratory. I
remember
loading programs from a reel of paper tape with LOTS of holes in it.....
hehe
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purchased an enclosure from them before. They have over 350 off the
shelf enclosures, as well as custom design. They have a search were
you can put in the dimensions you want and it gives you a list of all
their enclosures that are similar to those dimensions. I put in the
approximate dimensions for the size box you are looking for and I got
35 results back. They also have great drawings and pictures of each
one of their products.
-Dustin
--- In basicstamps@yahoogroups.com, "Vic Fraenckel" <vfraenc1@n...>
wrote:
> The Altoids mints come in a neat tin box that is just the size for
a small
> project. I have used one for a small power supply and for a couple
of
> others. I would like to find a source of these boxes (possibily
unprinted)
> this size or larger for more of the same. I hate to keep buying
Altoids just
> for the boxes. Don't particulary like the candy so it goes to waste.
>
> Not quite sure how to search for them with Google either.
>
> Any enlightenment will be appreciated.
>
> TIA
>
> Vic
> ________________________________________________________
>
> Victor Fraenckel - The Windman vfraenc1@n...
> KC2GUI
www.windsway.com
>
> Home of the WindReader Electronic Theodolite
> Read the WIND
>
> "Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory
however long
> and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival."
> - Winston [noparse][[/noparse]Leonard Spencer] Churchill (1874 - 1965)
>
> Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is
governed?
> -Count Oxenstierna (ca 1620)
> The generic IBM punch card was known as a 5081 ! Here I thought I was the only
> one who remembered such ancient things.
There's a few more of us 'old farts' around here than anyone
realizes. Remember the IBM 026 and programming the drum card
before you could even keypunch the program cards.... and
shuffling someone's card deck when they weren't around, always
good for a laugh.
--
History says King George is gone,
But I just saw him on the White House lawn!
He has no bounds, and accepts no borders,
If Congress won't do it, he "Executive Orders".
have some coding sheets for COBOL, 360/270 Assembler, and FORTRAN. Even have
some of the 132 column output layout sheets somewhere. Was poking around and
found my copy of Microsoft Cobol for the PC.
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> > The generic IBM punch card was known as a 5081 ! Here I thought I was
the only
> > one who remembered such ancient things.
>
> There's a few more of us 'old farts' around here than anyone
> realizes. Remember the IBM 026 and programming the drum card
> before you could even keypunch the program cards.... and
> shuffling someone's card deck when they weren't around, always
> good for a laugh.
sometime ago).
It interested me that Pennsylvania's Department of Transportation is
soliciting bids for a team of 26 COBOL programmers to do on-going
application development.
As a student, I was involved in helping my university in converting FORTRAN
and COBOL programs from a 60-bit word CDC machine to a 32-bit VAX--one had
to be careful to not loose precision in the weather models.
yet another old-timer,
Daniel
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Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 1:28 AM
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> Anyone still got a flowcharting template or coding sheets? I think I still
> have some coding sheets for COBOL, 360/270 Assembler, and FORTRAN. Even
have
> some of the 132 column output layout sheets somewhere. Was poking around
and
> found my copy of Microsoft Cobol for the PC.
>
>
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>
> > > The generic IBM punch card was known as a 5081 ! Here I thought I was
> the only
> > > one who remembered such ancient things.
> >
> > There's a few more of us 'old farts' around here than anyone
> > realizes. Remember the IBM 026 and programming the drum card
> > before you could even keypunch the program cards.... and
> > shuffling someone's card deck when they weren't around, always
> > good for a laugh.
>
>
>
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with a BSEE, I had taken every computer course LSU offered: ONE Fortran
course and a course in something called Analog computing, NOT digital mind
you. I went to work in Dallas, where our work was in real time flight
simulation. The assembler code was on punched paper tape and was loaded into
the computer by first loading the assembler. There was NO operating system.
We debugged the code from the console of the machine by displaying memory
addresses and changing the code on the fly. A long time ago.
Gene
Talent is what a man possesses, genius is what possesses a man.
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Yep (templates), and Not any more (children used them up as drawing sheets
sometime ago).
It interested me that Pennsylvania's Department of Transportation is
soliciting bids for a team of 26 COBOL programmers to do on-going
application development.
As a student, I was involved in helping my university in converting FORTRAN
and COBOL programs from a 60-bit word CDC machine to a 32-bit VAX--one had
to be careful to not loose precision in the weather models.
yet another old-timer,
Daniel
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From: "Rodent" <daweasel@s...>
To: <basicstamps@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 1:28 AM
Subject: Re: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] RE: Looking for project boxes
> Anyone still got a flowcharting template or coding sheets? I think I still
> have some coding sheets for COBOL, 360/270 Assembler, and FORTRAN. Even
have
> some of the 132 column output layout sheets somewhere. Was poking around
and
> found my copy of Microsoft Cobol for the PC.
>
>
Original Message
>
> > > The generic IBM punch card was known as a 5081 ! Here I thought I was
> the only
> > > one who remembered such ancient things.
> >
> > There's a few more of us 'old farts' around here than anyone
> > realizes. Remember the IBM 026 and programming the drum card
> > before you could even keypunch the program cards.... and
> > shuffling someone's card deck when they weren't around, always
> > good for a laugh.
>
>
>
>
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the Smithsonian computer exhibit, 2) Babbage's Calculating Engine
exhibit in the British museum, 3) air and space museum in Moscow.
Dennis
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From: Rodent [noparse]/noparse]mailto:[url=http://forums.parallaxinc.com/group/basicstamps/post?postID=NgIenhyRgFs8dHIWZ6qj4CKA4UlWiF6uw97Q5DidaWcPnJux35kg3uocYqEYvtqrcdklCd2NMZTA]daweasel@s...[/url
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 10:29 PM
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Subject: Re: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] RE: Looking for project boxes
Anyone still got a flowcharting template or coding sheets? I think I
still have some coding sheets for COBOL, 360/270 Assembler, and FORTRAN.
Even have some of the 132 column output layout sheets somewhere. Was
poking around and found my copy of Microsoft Cobol for the PC.
Original Message
> > The generic IBM punch card was known as a 5081 ! Here I thought I
> > was
the only
> > one who remembered such ancient things.
>
> There's a few more of us 'old farts' around here than anyone realizes.
> Remember the IBM 026 and programming the drum card before you could
> even keypunch the program cards.... and shuffling someone's card deck
> when they weren't around, always good for a laugh.
Cray on display as well as a bunch of really cool optical stuff.
Original Message
> Not to be missed for any Stampers interested in computer history are: 1)
> the Smithsonian computer exhibit, 2) Babbage's Calculating Engine
> exhibit in the British museum, 3) air and space museum in Moscow.
enclosures. here is a link I found with a simple search
for "plastic boxes" on Google.
http://www.jjsportscards.com/PlasticBoxes.html
Al
--- In basicstamps@yahoogroups.com, "Vic Fraenckel" <vfraenc1@n...>
wrote:
> The Altoids mints come in a neat tin box that is just the size for
a small
> project. I have used one for a small power supply and for a couple
of
> others. I would like to find a source of these boxes (possibily
unprinted)
> this size or larger for more of the same. I hate to keep buying
Altoids just
> for the boxes. Don't particulary like the candy so it goes to
waste.
>
> Not quite sure how to search for them with Google either.
>
> Any enlightenment will be appreciated.
>
> TIA
>
> Vic
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