Shrink Wrap

[Rockytime]

This isn't about cutting, it's about storing. When you don't have room to go out you have to go up.I've been cutting kids puzzles to give away to children in the neighborhood. Young families are moving in and there are more young children. Also use them at Christmas as toys for tots. Puzzles are simple and quick to cut so I do them between other projects. How to store them is the problem. I found 100 shrink bags on ebay for $4.99 including shipping.  Got them after about six weeks. Normal from China. I shrunk the bags with the puzzles with a small hair drier. Now I can stack the puzzles. Cheap and easy.

[spirithorse]

Nice find, Rocky,
I probably would have just used Sarah wrap (that's just a plastic food wrap that clings to itself if readers in the UK don't have it there)
but, your storage bags are a lot more professional.

God Bless ! Spirithorse

[scrollingforsanity]

Looks like it works fine. It will keep them altogether and stackable. Can't beat free shipping either.

grizz

[Scrappile]

Brilliant!

[Dee]

1 hour ago, Rockytime said:

This isn't about cutting, it's about storing. When you don't have room to go out you have to go up.I've been cutting kids puzzles to give away to children in the neighborhood. Young families are moving in and there are more young children. Also use them at Christmas as toys for tots. Puzzles are simple and quick to cut so I do them between other projects. How to store them is the problem. I found 100 shrink bags on ebay for $4.99 including shipping.  Got them after about six weeks. Normal from China. I shrunk the bags with the puzzles with a small hair drier. Now I can stack the puzzles. Cheap and easy.

I have used shrink wrap since I started making puzzles for the kids.  When I do, I enclose a zip top baggie large enough to hold the puzzle pieces after they are opened so none get lost.  Thank you for sharing with the Toys for Tots program.  It has been a large part of my life for the past 20 years.  I make puzzles, games & toys (especially pocket cars) and give them out every Christmas.  I even impersonate Mrs Clause in the months of November and December.  It is great fun for me and the kiddos.

[Rockytime]

Great looking toys!

[LarryEA]

Wow great looking toys

[Dave Monk]

7 minutes ago, LarryEA said:

Wow great looking toys

Larry, Good to see ya back. Hope you and your wife are doing well.

[LarryEA]

Thanks Dave. Wife is in second year of cancer treatment... I'm still up and about. 

[new2woodwrk]

I do exactly the same - I built a small wall cabinet that sits on top of one of freezers in the garage and that is where I store my puzzles and shrink wrapped items

[baggetta]

I pick up a box of food storage bags at the local market 10" x 14" and use these for puzzles and other projects that fall apart.  I put the puzzle in and then hit it with the heat gun I picked up at Harbor Freight.  Seems to do a pretty good job shrinking the plastic.

[Wilson142]

I use shrink wrap for puzzles also. It can become borderline addictive. Kinda Zen like. It's amazing how tight and wrinkle free you can get it. lol

[Dee]

Great job, Baggetta  Nicely wrapped tool

 

Edited July 15, 2019 by Dee

[teachnlearn]

Uline has a whole group of bags with a zip top. Help with puzzle storage for the kids and parents when  the kids tear the shrink wrap apart. RJF

Linking a whole group of bags.

https://www.uline.com/Product/AdvSearchResult?KeywordTyped=parts &keywords=Parts Bags

Another group

https://www.uline.com/Cls_01/Bags-Poly-Plastic?keywords=Bags,+Poly+/+Plastic

Edited July 16, 2019 by teachnlearn