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Post by High Sierra Fan on Feb 7, 2021 19:57:10 GMT -8
And, yes, epoxy isn’t as fussy as superglue (cyanoacrylates) on surface condition. I was thinking of the Ursack example. At 8mm in length there’s probably a location on an Ursack that would work. Up around the opening where it’s folded for the draw cord? They’re shaped like a biggish grain of rice.
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Post by tallgrass on Feb 7, 2021 19:57:14 GMT -8
RFID! Of course! I used them to ID our frogs, easy to use and the tags aren’t that expensive: just superglue them to the piece and you’re in business. www.biomark.com/Yep! This is the first thing that come to mind for me. "Implant" it into each piece of equipment or what not & mark it's location with some bright orange paint or something. This is what we do with our school's "maker space" loaner stuff. We used some library software to go with it. Scan the kids ID, scan the item. Done.
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Post by Lamebeaver on Feb 13, 2021 10:36:57 GMT -8
I don't see why a simple spreadsheet wouldn't work. Top row would be Where you send it. Columns for what went there. Seems easy enough to set up, and you'd have access to it anytime you had wifi. I'll expand a little on Zeke's suggestion. One line for each item. When you ship several items to a particular destination, assign a color to them. You can sort by items, or by colors. When a shipment returns, sort by color and remove the coloring from those items (highlight the cells and remove the color designation). You could assign macros for the various types of sorting you want to do. One TNF 20 degree sleeping bag is the same as another one, no need to individual bar codes. There are a limited amount of colors available, but you can recycle these as the inventory from a particular trip is returned.
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Post by hikerjer on Feb 15, 2021 20:22:48 GMT -8
Tell me about your business. In my younger years I played with that idea. No desire to do it now but I’m curious on what I missed out on. How’s it working for you? Website? Like I said, just curious.
Thanks.
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Post by null on Feb 17, 2021 5:30:27 GMT -8
Tell me about your business Well, my business isn't as a quartermaster or lending out items or writing software to do it. I take groups of about 6-12 people on 1 & 2 week backpacking trips. I have maybe a dozen guides distributed around the country. If I run a trip to say, Big Bend, I bring in a guide (or 2) and ship equipment to them. I might have another trip to Isle Royale the following week and have to ship a different set of equipment there. Sometimes it makes sense to keep equipment in the region, for example when we have a Sedona Trip followed 2 weeks later by a Grand Canyon trip. I should just buy each guide their own set of equipment and have them ship it around the country, but I've had issues when I left this up to guides (Paying over $300 to overnight items that had a week to get there and could have been purchased new for maybe double that). Anyway, the most appropriate I've found so far is Lend Items although it's not exactly what I'm looking for.
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Post by ErnieW on Feb 17, 2021 5:54:07 GMT -8
If you are going barcodes I would recommend a P-touch preferably with a computer interface. The normal labels are very tough and there are tricks for attaching them to things like cables. Sticking them to luggage tags might be possible. Also they have a fabric transfer label that can be ironed on to some fabrics. Also sort of as a hybrid of one of my previous recommendations you can also add the item number to the item with a Sharpie as well in case it loses its barcode tag. You should be able to enter the code manually if need be and makes replacing the tag easier.
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