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Where do you store manuals to protect them?

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Dick2

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We had the manuals in a big bookshelf in the shop at the farm; just closed the doors to keep the critters out.

Nephew picked up a big old refrigerator someone was throwing out and stores all his manuals inside to keep mice and critters out.
 
A shelf in the shop has worked well so far. The two cab tractors have a holder in the cab. And I leave the sprayer manual right in the one tractor cab.

I've got a couple of newer pieces of machinery around here with which I got to pay for the cute little plastic "waterproof" holder. They're great. You get a coiled up and soaked manual!
 
I store mine in a large ammo container from WW-II and its made of heavy steel and is water tight.
I wish I could find another one but haven't seen one in years.
 
I use a refrigerator also. I use it to keep my paint and welding rods in also, that way I can put a 40 watt bulb in it and keep the welding rods dry and the paint from freezing in the winter.
 
2 different shelves in the pole barn for some and a bookcase in the "fish and sewing" room" (spare bedroom) in the house.
 
Clear Plastic hanging file tote I got from Office Depot. 14w x 18l x 12d. Has nice cover and blue plastic latches for the cover. Works great. Paul
 
County hospital had an auction in the 80s after remodeling. I bought several double wall steel cabinets for about $65 each.....one is for all manuals, one for welding supplies/haz/aerosol stuff, largest went into milkhouse for dairy supplies. No way mice get through two layers of steel.
 
I keep all my originals in a plastic tote in the house, copies with some of the equipment in a zip lock, and I also have scanned all mine into pdf format so I can print new ones should the originals get destroyed.
 
I keep them in an office that has a copier . When I am working on something I make a copy of the pages I need. Same as the parts book.
 
In the library, upstairs. The collection takes up one column of shelves, which sounds like a lot, until you look at the whole wall next to it. All train related publications, including an almost complete 68 years of Model Railroader.

Mike
 
I keep mine in the library in heavy loose leaf binders. Time was, they were pre-punched, if not I punch holes and put them in the binder.
 
Early 50's we had a refrigerator in the machine shed, contained welding rods, blasting caps and manuals. I spent a lot of time when I was a little kid reading the safety comics in the IH manuals.
 
In a file cabinet in the farm office. In order too, tractors first, then the combine, then harvesting then tillage and then small items like log splitter and lawn mowers last
 
Mine are here in the house. I spend a lot of times looking at them before I do a repair or such. If I have specific equipment in the shop, then that manual can go with me...or copies of pages.
 
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