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Hi all! So I've started a little project for myself. Minidisc never really caught on too well in canada so I won't be stmbling on any racks at the thrift shop anytime soon. I've been looking for storage solutions, haven't been a big fan of the wine box idea, generally I haven't seen anything that really caught my eye. For some reason it never dawned on me in the last year to 3D print some racks... I'm not sure why, I've been 3D printing everything else for years.... So I designed these up yesterday with some spare time. They're very rough still and very utilitarian. The larger one holds 10 discs and is meant to stack vertically (and has holes for nesting feet, and holes for screws). The smaller one to the right I haven't tested yet but I am thinking of a wall unit that makes the discs look like they are floating out of the wall. Edit wise I'm going to shrink the width by 2mm and perhaps put the discs at a slight downard angle rather than 90 degree so that if they were on an uneven surface, they'd still stay in the rack. What do you guys think? Feel free to toss any ideas my way! (also, for curiosity sake, the larger one took 8 hours to print! 3d printing is pretty cool but it's still a very slow process.) (The render) and printed

I´ve often read that those types don´t hold the charge... well, let me tell you something: they´re not able to. No NiMH battery is (with the exception of Eneloop). Furthermore, those NiMH need to be discharged (but not completely) before being charged again. While they don´t have the 'Memory Effect' of NiCD batteries they have something else. Imagine you have a NiMH battery that´s still charged at 40%. If you charge it to a 100% it´s at a 100% minus the 40% it already had before charging. So effectively you´re now at 60% masking themselves as 100%. This happens every time. For that reason I´ve bought this: http://www.technoline.eu/details.php?id=1400&kat=15 It´s the best charger on the market IMO (it´s available in other countries than european too under a different name). It discharges NiMH batteries before re-charging them, it also has a refresh function which works marvellous. But it isn´t able to charge Gumstick batteries. To do that I use two copper cables, elastic rubber band to firmly attach the contacts of those two cables to the poles of the battery and something to press the other end of those cables to the connectors of the charger. That way, my NiMH gumstick batteries have held up for more than two years - and they are the same cheap ones you bought.

I picked up a couple of NiMH gumsticks on eBay with the label "PowerStream", I don't see any for sale currently by the same seller but they seem to work great, hold a charge and run for nearly a week of 2 - 3 hours of use per day. This seller was in the US but I am sure the batteries are made in China. Both I bought have been charging and discharging for 6 months or so without issue.