Cataloguing Machinery.

[simon c]

One further advantage is that having the information electronically allows you to store it offsite in case you do have a burglary and/or fire and your PC goes with it.

Some options are:
email it to work
email it to a friend (make sure it's a trustworthy friend)
copy it to an online datastore - eg the ones you get for free from your ISP

Simon

[MajorPanic]

Yo Sir Stinky,

I emailed a copy to my insurance company after I had a chat with them.
They reckon it's an excellent way to keep a record and I update it every now and then.
Photoshop, PaintShop Pro, ACDsee will all do web (html) photo albums and it's an automated process. Just point the app at the folder of pictures and it creates the thumbnails and writes the pages
That reminds me.......

[Rowan]

Sir S

easiest and quickest way to catalogue everything is

A)put all tools and equipment in one location
b)email me the address
c)leave it unlocked and walk away
d)take no notice of the removalist van that turns up at 3am :eek:

[RETIRED]

Having very little knowledge of programming I use this program for all lists addresses and other stuff I have to access.

It replaces the old Microsoft cardfile which I kind of liked.

http://www.azzcardfile.com/

[Daddles]

What's wrong with a big box, lots of chains and a large dog?

Richard

[outback]

What's wrong with a big box, lots of chains and a large dog?

Richard

Add a stack of pancakes, and youv'e got yerself one hell of a fetish

[Grunt]

What's wrong with a big box, lots of chains and a large dog?

Dogs are flammable.

[Jim Carroll]

Sir Stink I like the idea of the page with the current model, purchase price & photo but how often are you going to go to the hardware store to check out current models and prices, usually once you buy a tool you do not worry about the price again till you have to replace it, then you get a shock as to how much it has gone up. It may be allright for your larger tools to do this but think of all the little bits a peices you gather as you go along .
They are the things that really add up over time.
Another problem you have is once the boss knows what you have in the shed it will be hard to say " Ive had it for years" she can go to the computor and check out your purchase date and how much you really paid for it. DOH!!!

[fxst]

Thanks guys .....

barnsey .... if you want to have a go at making an Access data base that can do this I am sure that many forum members will be happy to use it. I will give it a go but it may take a while to master Access I think.

I have this perfectionist personality but I rarely pull it off

Barnsey I for one would appreciate it if you would make up a access db I have tried a couple times but ending up swearing cos I missed out bits and I reckon a photo fo the item is a given beats trying to describe tools to a person on the other end of the phone that thinks a butter knife is a screwdriver :eek:
Pete

[Sir Stinkalot]

Sir Stink I like the idea of the page with the current model, purchase price & photo but how often are you going to go to the hardware store to check out current models and prices, usually once you buy a tool you do not worry about the price again till you have to replace it, then you get a shock as to how much it has gone up. It may be allright for your larger tools to do this but think of all the little bits a peices you gather as you go along .

Jim I would tend to agree that you wouldn't update the catalogue too often with the new models, but for larger items it wouldn't take long to update when the new annual dealer catalogues (Carbatec, Hare and Forbes etc) come out. The problem with not updating the prices is that if the retail price goes up you are under insured and if they go down you are over insured, under being worse.

A searchable database would be ideal .... Yesterday I purchased a $20 masonry drill bit to drill two holes, thinking it would be something that I wouldn't have in the garage, today after drilling the two holes I found one in a drawer in the garage. If I had of know that I had one I would have spent the 20 minutes to find it.

The database could be as accurate as you like, it could just list the large power tools that are likely to go first at a break in or it could list everything down to drill bits.

[silentC]

Cataloguing your drill bits?!! Jeez mate, you're starting to scare me.... Back away, don't make eye contact

[RETIRED]

It's caused by getting married Darren.

He's got nothing better to do now.

[Sir Stinkalot]

True ..... only a month gone now and I am already looking for a reason for staying out in the garage.

I wasn't thinking about cataloguing every drill bit ..... just the slightly strange ones.

[Daddles]

True ..... only a month gone now and I am already looking for a reason for staying out in the garage.

I wasn't thinking about cataloguing every drill bit ..... just the slightly strange ones.

That's a good idea - just catalogue the twisted ones.

Richard

[outback]

Perhaps he means the ones for square holes, or for going round corners.

Or does he mean the ones with strange and unnatural tendancies towards pancakes?