Hi all,
Lot of new faces around here, which is great!
As all of you have likely noticed, we’ve been doing some spring cleaning. One area that hasn’t been tackled yet is the laser cutter materials storage.
Generally speaking, personal items should not be stored at VHS, at all. The lockers(soon to be bins) and laser cutter storage are unusual exceptions, and there are a couple guidelines that keep it manageable.
As of the QGM from August 17th, 2014, this is a bylaw written into our society docs:
All personal materials need to be labeled with name and date. If both items are
not provided or 6 months has passed then the material is fair game for everyone
else.
So clearly label everything you own with your name, and full date! Otherwise people have no idea what is currently being used, or what has been abandoned. This was a direct response to many-year-old forgotten wood hanging around cluttering up the shop.
If you are storing material there and you are actually using or intend to use it, this is totally not aimed at you. You are allowed to come back and relabel all of your material with today’s date, as often as you like, because you have clearly not abandoned it.
That means you, yes you, have a duty to use up old materials! It helps keep our space clean! It encourages experimentation, and is overall a positive for everyone!
That also means that it is not acceptable to store laser materials anywhere else! Beside the lathe is not acceptable, and material from there will be removed. That’s a safety issue in addition to clutter.
Beside the broom closet is also not okay.
If you’ve done some lasering and there are spindly skeletons that aren’t good for anything, please throw them out instead of returning them to the pile.
That’s all! Thanks for your help!