How to use Avery 76009 business card holders for car card/waybill holders?

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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What are all the cuts required to use the Avery business card holders as car card/waybill holders? Do you cut the whole 4" length down to … inches ? Or just the front pocket?

Thanks,

Brian

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My set is up in the atic, but if I recall correctly, you need to make a cut such that the waybill ( the white, 4 sided card with information on what is being transported, from where and to who) will slide down into the car card ( the manila card with the poscket, one for each boxcar, gon, tank car, etc). In use, the waybill is received listing the lading, you pick up a card card ( already in the plastic sleeve), for the typoe of railroad car that suits the waybill, insert the waybill through the slot into the car card pocket, with the info showing for the first trip. The slot goes across the width of the Avery ( or Staples, etc) business card holder locatrd such that you can slip the waybill into the card pocket. Understand, not having my cards available to me, I am going by memory, assuming ( dangerous, i know) that the Avery b.c. holder is a plastic sleeve that you can slip a normal-size business card into via othe open end.)

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Brian:

I haven’t a clue about that system.

I use file cards. Cut two 4x6 cards in half, and one 4x6 into quarters. Use scotch tape to make car cardholders.

Use three by five cards, cut in half, for the four sided car cards.

I colour code the holders to indicate the type of car to look for.

If nothing else you are now back to the top of the list.

Dave

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I dug my Micro-Mark set out from the attic, and this is what i did.

  • i used Staple’s brand of business cards pages, I guess they were cheaper, but they look the same as Avery. (Note that I could only get 6 usable ‘holders’ out of the 10 on the page becasue some get wasted in order to cut out usable ones, Avery may be different)

  • I made a dummy car card holder out of a 3x5 card that fits into the business card holder (BCH) just the same as the Car Card Holder (CCH); I drew two lines across the width of the dummy card, one at the same level as the top of the pocket in the CCH (approx 1 1/2 " from bottom) and another line parallel to the first but abt 1/4" higher.

  • Insert the dummy card into the BCH, and using a sharp hobby knife, cut through the plastic where the two lines are, and remove the dummy CCH. (this is tough onthe dummy CCH; be sure to only cut through one layer of plastic.)

  • remove the dummy CCH ( or not, as you prefer) for the next step.

  • Using the knife, cut out the rectangular piece of plastic to create an opening that is the width of the BCH and 1/4" high. This allows enough room to easlily slip the Waybill into the real CCH that is inside the plastic BCH.

  • Use a real CCH, insert it into the modified BCH, and see if the opening is in the right place and large enough to allow inserting a waybill through the slot and into the CCH pocket.

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Thank you so much. Can you please send a picture?

Thanks

Brian

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I would send picture if I knew how. Maybe someone can direct me to the process?

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Can you email the picture to bcu@charter.net.

Thanks

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will do.