Useful Item..Spaghetti Storage Container - Model Railroader Magazine

Let's hear it for used plastic food containers of all sizes!

My wife won't re-use any container (Zip-Loc or other) if it's anything but pristine when it comes out of the dishwasher, so I have a continuous supply of 'good enough for the railroad' freezer boxes and such to choose from.

My most unusual use is as a safety container for a homemade power supply.  The lid of the box has three screw terminals, and is glued on.  A 120 volt cord (ex light duty extension cord) passes through a grommet-fitted hole in the side.  Inside: a low-cost filament transformer, and a couple of wire nuts.  Input 120vac (from a breaker-equipped outlet strip) - output 12.6vac, center-tapped (which gives me 2 6.3vac lighting circuits) - capacity 36 watts (never approached in ordinary operation.)  The Zip-Loc box keeps careless fingers out of the house current.

I personally use a spaghetti storage container for storing 'useful' lengths of rail, brass tubing, small dowels and such.

Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)