Just a heads up, these might work well for video game storage

[Howard_Casto]

http://www.rakuten.com/prod/p/q/sellerid/34817733/257925795.html?ranMID=36342&ranEAID=NKa3hZyYoHA&ranSiteID=NKa3hZyYoHA-ADslI5wsu9C0FeYFiBijpA&scid=af_linkshare&adid=18094&siteID=NKa3hZyYoHA-ADslI5wsu9C0FeYFiBijpA

I was sent a link to these in my mail box.  The minimalist design coupled with the ability to re-arrange the cubes makes me think these would be great for displaying consoles or carts and memorabilia.  They also seem to have a credit card deal where you earn 50 bucks in points so if you want to risk that it's free. 

I might go ahead and pick one up but I want to look first... they seem to have a selection of them.

[HaRuMaN]

Hmm, from the one review:

"This is nice space use for cloth storage cabinet. But it cant use for heavy stuff like books or other stuff."

[yotsuya]

They look like fabric panels...

[pbj]

I store mine on these...

[RayB]

I store mine on these...

     

[Howard_Casto]

Well it looked like a thin plastic to me, and *most* videogame consoles don't weigh anything.  It's already out of stock though so nevermind. 

[ark_ader]

Get yourself a nice Stereo cabinet from a consignment store and stick everything in there.

[ChadTower]

I have been using a similar set for my clothes and linens for more than 20 years.  Mine are a metal wireframe though they appear to have the same connectors and dimensions.  They were awesome in college when I moved every few months.  I could just take them down and throw them in the car.  Build something at the new place shaped to whatever corner I was using there.  You could use them for consoles but I would keep all of the weight at the bottom.  They get wobbly if you put any weight near the top because the base is no deeper than the rest of it.

[dkersten]

We're all DIY'ers here, just build something.. some plywood or MDF and a couple cans of paint and BOOM, you have storage.  Granted, if all you have is a jigsaw, drill, and a couple clamps, this might not be the best route...

[Howard_Casto]

That's not necessarily the best route if your collection is ever expanding.  I'm into consoles atm and I pick up missing ones whenever I run across them.  So I have the option of building something that fits my collection now and having to re-build it when I get more stuff, make it way oversized and have a bunch of empty slots, or find a modular solution that I can expand upon as needed. 

[ChadTower]

Think it through.  A decent expandable DIY setup of shelves takes about 5 minutes to figure out.  Use bricks and plywood.  Use threaded rods and plywood.  Use chains+hooks and plywood.  There are a hundred ways you could do it cheaply and easily that leave room to add pieces.

[Howard_Casto]

Listen....... I just wanted to share a deal in case anyone else might find it useful.  I won't make that mistake again, sorry. 

[dkersten]

Hey, I thought you made a good case for why to use them.  Makes perfect sense to me once you mentioned cheap expandability. 

[Howard_Casto]

Well I appreciate it man.  Don't get me wrong, I'm not mad or anything, it's just I was up in the middle of the night again, I saw those things and thought "hey maybe the guys might find this useful".  I wasn't really prepared to defend the thing as the best solution ever since it's super cheap..... that was kind of the point. 

Unfortunately they sold out really fast and are now back at retail.   They aren't nearly as appealing at the higher price imho. 

For me anyway, I'm thinking that I'll make a really nice base by hand... to store cords and large controllers and ect and make it so that I can sit something more modular on top of it.  I recently was given a dovetail jig for my router.  I kind of want to make some drawers now just to see if I can do it. 

[dkersten]

Well I appreciate it man.  Don't get me wrong, I'm not mad or anything, it's just I was up in the middle of the night again, I saw those things and thought "hey maybe the guys might find this useful".  I wasn't really prepared to defend the thing as the best solution ever since it's super cheap..... that was kind of the point. 

Unfortunately they sold out really fast and are now back at retail.   They aren't nearly as appealing at the higher price imho. 

For me anyway, I'm thinking that I'll make a really nice base by hand... to store cords and large controllers and ect and make it so that I can sit something more modular on top of it.  I recently was given a dovetail jig for my router.  I kind of want to make some drawers now just to see if I can do it.

I have a love/hate relationship with my dovetail jig.. I upgraded a while back to a really beefy Porter Cable model and I love the results when you get the setup right, but it is inevitable that I will get one piece backwards when making the cuts and then when I go to assemble it I get frustrated when it doesn't work, lol.  And it gets messy in a hurry.  And if you slip and lift the router while in the jig, watch out because that bit will eat through aluminum, plastic, and even steel in a HURRY.  I have a nice little notch in one of the aluminum teeth in my jig from the very first time I was using it... Take the time to get the depth of your bit adjusted perfectly or assembly will not go well.

[Howard_Casto]

It's more of a exercise to see how well I can do it.  I can make just about anything at this point but the two things I haven't mastered is dovetail/biscuit joining and pocket hole joining.  So I thought I might try them all on this.