Any ideas for a wastebasket?

[bdorman]

I'm getting kind of tired of having a million tiny pieces of trash in my lap and on the floor. I know some of the higher-end vise manufacturers offer a clamp-on waste container but most of their stuff costs way more than I'm willing to spend.

Anybody have any ingeneous ideas to catch the debris? I prefer to make my own so I can customize it to my needs, but it would be great to have the "headstart" of your experience.

[skiptomylu]

Even though I have a waste basket under my vise I still tie with a plastic trash can with bag between my legs.

[Mike Andrews]

I keep a large coffee can w/ lid on my desk and empty it as required.

[Crappiehappy]

something like this may work:

1 - G 24 WASTE BAG FOR FLY TYING VISE UNIVERSAL | eBay

[Redman]

I use a 5 gallon orange Home depot bucket with a 10 gal tall kitchen trash bag in side it . I keep pushing it down and after 4 months I empty it .Things at my house my be disorganized but not all that dirty.

Redman

[bdorman]

I use a 5 gallon orange Home depot bucket with a 10 gal tall kitchen trash bag in side it . I keep pushing it down and after 4 months I empty it .Things at my house my be disorganized but not all that dirty.

Redman

That's the same solution I use for my shop trash bin...but this jig-tying stuff is too light. If you push down it goes flying in the air. It's darn near impossible to sweep it up with a broom because it just flies (like trying to sweep broken styrofoam...maddening!)

I'm thinking of attaching a 2" x 2" x 14" plastic tray (one of my wife's old kitchen drawer inserts) on to the front of my shop table. When I'm tying I'll line it with a damp/wet paper towel so that anything that lands in there, stays in there.

It wouldn't bother me except that my shop is a small room off my home office, so whatever ends up on the shop floor finds its way to the office floor.

[skeetbum]

I use a tray from a microwave meal that's about 3X4 and 1 1/2 deep to put stuff in til it gets full and then dump it in the bigger can on the floor. Seems OK so far.

[Mike Andrews]

A bit off the original topic but one of my best investments for my tying area is a small "Dustbuster" type vacuum that stays at my bench. I clean up all the little scraps as I go and don't have much of a mess ever. FWIW my tying area is in our master bedroom and my wife hasn't given me any grief about the mess since I got the vacuum.

[bfish]

I think I would go with drawer slides and undermount a small waste basket off to one side. Pull the can out, sweep of the hand into the basket, push basket back under desk. The basket could hang by it's lip and would be easy to remove by just sliding it out of the drawer slides.

[bdorman]

I think I would go with drawer slides and undermount a small waste basket off to one side. Pull the can out, sweep of the hand into the basket, push basket back under desk. The basket could hang by it's lip and would be easy to remove by just sliding it out of the drawer slides.

That's a great idea. I think my shop table has a 3"-4" lip on it. And I'm sure my wife has a spare dustbuster around somewhere.

Many thanks!