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Worthy secondary use for FP NC electrical cabinet

Martin P

Martin P

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FP5NC Chicken Coop! Or more accurately nesting box/sleeping box.

They took to it immediately.

I hate scrapping these empty boxes. I recently had the huge closet size cabinet from a late FP4NC D11 ("hobo hut") and I couldn't even give it away, so it went to the scrapper.
This is a much better use. And it has 4 large doors (2 in the front and in the back).
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One of my current projects is turning these electrical cabinets into tool storage cabinets, still need to get shelves in and the ends capped.
 

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Martin P said:
Wow, great toy!
But that looks like it had some value before surrended to the kids.
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Meh. Some stuff is valuable if you can find the right person, but some stuff that yer never gonna use anyways, and is otherwise just taking up space...

That looks like a great addition for the kids to be imagining all manner of stuff with.
 
trevj said:
Meh. Some stuff is valuable if you can find the right person, but some stuff that yer never gonna use anyways, and is otherwise just taking up space...

That looks like a great addition for the kids to be imagining all manner of stuff with.
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I spent months trying to sell the servo drives, cards, and control panel from a Mazak QT10 w/ T1 control, trust me, the kids think it’s more valuable than anyone on PM or EBay… I kept the (gutted) panel for the kids, cut the spindle into a gauge for making A2-6 back plates and salvaged the back plate to the power chuck.
 
Martin P said:
FP5NC Chicken Coop! Or more accurately nesting box/sleeping box.

They took to it immediately.

I hate scrapping these empty boxes. I recently had the huge closet size cabinet from a late FP4NC D11 ("hobo hut") and I couldn't even give it away, so it went to the scrapper.
This is a much better use. And it has 4 large doors (2 in the front and in the back).
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Martin, That made me laugh, it reminded me of seeing a camping trailer in the middle of a farm with the doors wide open in the middle of a Michigan winter......I was confused until I drove by months later to see the camper in the same place with the doors wide open again, this time I saw all the chickens running around, it all made sense then!

Kevin
 
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