Store Manuals where?

MI AC Parsons · Dec 26, 2013

Post re D 17 manual raises question. Cleaning out a closet in the house and ran across 4 manuals. I have a plastic storage case with a clamped lid in unheated pole barn where I keep manuals, instruction, etc. 'Bout 20 degrees out there...I worry about moisture, but I want them handy. Where do you guys keep yours?

Chris Jones · Dec 26, 2013

Filling cabinet in my home office. I think the primary thing is to have them where you can find them.

old · Dec 26, 2013

I keep mine right here on the computer desk so that way I have them for quick info to help me answer questions on here

Bob Bancroft · Dec 26, 2013

On a shelf in the shop.

AG in IN · Dec 26, 2013

I have a steel cabinet I put many of my manuals in. Dollar Tree stores sell a cheap moisture absorbant tub that seems to do a good job. No mold/mildew/smell yet. I use a couple in that cabinet and change them out before they're used up.

AG

super99 · Dec 26, 2013

Probably not the best place, but I keep manuals in a plastic mailbox in the unheated shop. They are dry and no mice problems in 8 years. Chris

randy hall · Dec 26, 2013

a fellow we used to farm for had an old inoperative refrigerator in his shop area for manuals and welding rods and other important papers.

Hoofer B · Dec 26, 2013

You mean to tell me they make manuals for these things???

jm. · Dec 26, 2013

Have TWO 4 draw filling cabinets in the shop office with the manuals . Also have one old fold out counter rack like all the parts stores had when they had parts books, use it for parts books on the common equipment we have.

J.Wondergem · Dec 26, 2013

I now have a heated shop. Before that I had a pole barn with a dirt floor, unheated. I kept my welding rods and some other stuff in an old refrigerator that didn't run any more. It kept those welding rods in real good shape.

Gene Davis (Ga.) · Dec 26, 2013

My wife got a new computer and passed her old one down to me for my shop office. I am now in the process of downloading or copying to CDs all manuals I can onto it. It sure is handy to look them up this way and print out only the part I need. Some are available as downloads off the internet. I will later get the down loads on CDs also for backup.

notjustair · Dec 26, 2013

I have about all of mine cut apart and put in D ring binders. Makes them handy because they can lay flat about anywhere. I try to keep them in the house unless I am working on something. I have found that near bedtime I tend to get my brilliant revelations about repairs that are needed. I usually end up walking out to the shop if I don't have a manual in the house.

JD Seller · Dec 26, 2013

I used to keep them in a filing cabinet in the shop. I found out mice can get into a filing cabinet. They cost me several hundred dollars in ruined manuals. So I now have a fire proof filing cabinet I keep them in. It is air tight so the mice can't get into it. I found it used on Craigslist as the combination lock is broken but the draw latch all work.

DeltaRed · Dec 26, 2013

On a bookshelf above my shpo desk.

JMS/.MN · Dec 26, 2013

Years ago the county hospital did a major remodeling. I bought several double wall steel cabinets for about $65 each. One went into the milkhouse to please the B...h milk inspector (she liked steel cabinets for dairy items), the other 3 went into the shop, with the biggest one designated to hold what is well over a thousand dollars worth of manuals I have. (one tractor shop manual, a 2470 Case, was over $225 in 1985). No mice will ever get in as long as I keep the doors closed.

D beatty · Dec 26, 2013

I store mine in a large steel WW-2 50 cal ammo box( takes two men to carry when full) which is water proof and mouse proof. It is in an unheat 40X60 garage on top shelf of a storage rack.

NCWayne · Dec 27, 2013

Between Dad and I we"ve got hundreds of manuals. In both our cases, the majority of them are all simply setting on shelves wrapping around our offices (in unheated shops), or in filing cabinets. We"ve never had any problems with mice or anything else, presumably because they don"t care to next out in the open on a shelf.

Mike M · Dec 27, 2013

LOL !!!!

You would think not by about half the questions asked on here.

Wheat Farmer · Dec 27, 2013

Keep them and other STUFF in an old refrigerator. Manuals have been in it for well over 53 years. Still like the day they were put in there.

4020deereboy · Dec 27, 2013

Right next to the ol easy chair sometimes like reading through em just for fun

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