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Punched Cards: Painted Storage Trays

If you must have a stack of punched cards on your desk, a nice tray does wonders for the office decor:

Card Storage Tray - overview
Card Storage Tray – overview

That’s a coat of Rustoleum Painter’s Touch 2x [many more adjectives] Kona Brown Gloss rattlecan paint atop Trocraft Eco board. I sprayed the separate parts on a sheet of newspaper, waited 20 minutes, flipped them over, sprayed the other side, gave them another 20 minutes, and got them inside out of the wind for a day of curing.

They’re held together by cyanoacrylate adhesive dots between the tabs, with accelerator daubed on the other side of the joint to encourage prompt curing. In general I do not like cyanoacrylate, but sometimes it seems like the right hammer for the job.

The trays are a definite step up from chipboard:

Punched cards - storage trays
Punched cards – storage trays

It’s even pretty up close:

Card Storage Tray - front
Card Storage Tray – front

They might be Presentation Grade.

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