Paul_RS
Elder Member
Just bought a couple of Raaco boxes, standard set up from Tradesystems UK. What system do you guys use for storing counters in the Raaco trays?
Cheers
Paul
Cheers
Paul
Maybe he's walled in...Where's Olli? We're talking RAACO here...
If you have a KWASL set of RAACO countersheet labels, I'll take'em for the Texas download.Hehe... Looky here:
Article - The 'Ultimate' RAACO Storage
This 22 page article provides what I would have liked when I began planning to set up a RAACO storage for my ASL stuff in one file: Basic premises before you start, hardware needed, best way to organize counters according to premises along with...www.gamesquad.com
See here for a proof-of-concept for the RAACO insert labels (as PDF):
ASL Counter Labels for use with A75 & A78 RAACO inserts + Assorters covering all ASL Core Modules
This is the PDF version of a file which provides labels to use with A75 & A78 RAACO inserts and RAACO Assorters and covers all ASL Core Modules (and a bit more) with roughly 1100 labels. A separate article available at GS forum explains this...www.gamesquad.com
Those labels are available in an editable and thus customizable for your needs Excel spreadsheet in the Download Section of Texas ASL Club:
Note, that this storage system does not include the counters of the latest Korea core module. I am tending to keep these separate, as it is post WW2.
von Marwitz
I have none yet, as I have not entirely made up my mind whether to 'integrate' them to the existing set - which might prove technically difficult or to 'separate' them as they are 'post WW2' and to avoid the aforementioned difficulties.If you have a KWASL set of RAACO countersheet labels, I'll take'em for the Texas download.
That's is what a vacuum tweezer is for. You can also use standard tweezers or blue tack on the end of a stick. Or tip the tray over.The inserts look deep and narrow. Is it particularly hard to retrieve counters with "clumsy" fingers?
von Marwitz
Outstanding work! Also thanks for your contribution towards the ASL sticky errata (I saw your name a few times as the author).
I am using "Planos" but am contemplating using RAACO.
I have a couple of quick questions - they may seem odd - but I have never had a chance to see RAACO in the flesh.
- Your 5/8" counters seem to be organised with four different vehicle/gun types per insert. Each of the four types looks to be a separate stack within the insert. With movement, shaking, day to day life etc etc do these "stacks" retain their integrity? Or do they get mixed up so you have to sort through each insert to find the particular counter type you are looking for amongst its three other brethren?
- The inserts look deep and narrow. Is it particularly hard to retrieve counters with "clumsy" fingers?
Paul I would use the A-78’s for all the 1/2” Nationality counters Full squads in one 1/2 Squads in another below the first. And A-75 trays for the 5/8 counters and stack the vehicles, guns ,boats and planes vertically with dividers separating each type in Ch H order , the dividers are available as a download on the Texas ASL site. There are several types including my own, which have the rule number and name of each type on them in National colours .Just bought a couple of Raaco boxes, standard set up from Tradesystems UK. What system do you guys use for storing counters in the Raaco trays?
Cheers
Paul
I am afraid that the laurels for ASL sticky errata do not belong to me, as I have not contributed to these as far as I know. I think someone might have got me confused with Klas Malmström, who is "the" Guru of Errata and Q&A - his forum avatar resembles mine.von Marwitz
Outstanding work! Also thanks for your contribution towards the ASL sticky errata (I saw your name a few times as the author).
Whatever you do, plan accordingly to make any change of system your "final" one. It is s ton of work.I am using "Planos" but am contemplating using RAACO.
I have a couple of quick questions - they may seem odd - but I have never had a chance to see RAACO in the flesh.
- Your 5/8" counters seem to be organised with four different vehicle/gun types per insert. Each of the four types looks to be a separate stack within the insert. With movement, shaking, day to day life etc etc do these "stacks" retain their integrity? Or do they get mixed up so you have to sort through each insert to find the particular counter type you are looking for amongst its three other brethren?
I would advise using tweezers to retreive and put back counters in general. To make this easier, the 'newer' counters of re-released Core Modules are much better if you want to retrieve a whole stack - say 10x 7-4-7 squads with one tweezer-grip, because they are usually much more precisely die-cut than those of, say, the original "Yanks" module, in which many counters were anything but square.1. The inserts look deep and narrow. Is it particularly hard to retrieve counters with "clumsy" fingers?
I remember these. Probably the pictures he posted here got lost two forum-updates ago.If you really want to go all in, I believe it was Steve Dennis who made drawings for printable Raaco trays. He had designs for storing them flat in stacks, he has half-height trays, and other unique designs. I know Stan Jackson used those designs to get some printed. Not cheap, for sure, but hella cool in implementation. Go big, or go home -- jim
Do you have any rough idea how much the effective cost of one of those inserts might be?And he's solved the issue of not having feet on the inserts to prevent lateral movement, a new 3d printer that he has access to is now capable of printing them on the inserts directly eliminating the need to glue them on after the fact.