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[stormdog]

After one of my two free-cycled wooden bookcases collapsed, I contacted a Craigslist seller with several metal shelving racks at $15 per unit. She turned out to be a really nifty person to talk to. Her husband and father had both been techy folks. One had a Ph.D. in biological math and the other designed control systems for furnaces. As well as the shelving units, I bought eight or ten multi-drawer parts pins, many stuffed with various electronic components (as well as random screws and thing I'll have to toss). Just as cool, I mentioned when I first visited that I was looking for slide rules. On my return trip, she'd found two of them for me, including a 20" K&E with a magnifying cursor. Of course, I bought those too. I now own five slide rules by five different companies.