Source 4 par lens storage

The restaurant cart route is an expensive solution, unless you have a LOT of lenses needing storage and constant swapping.  I did a lot of research into these items and they are not available used (generally) and run over $400 for a new one.

Option 2 for me was standard milk crates.  

I used the blue/green styrofoam the lenses came in to line a milk crate (4 actually - 1 ea, for the 4 lens types - VN. NSP, MFL, WFL), with a screwed in 1/2 ply wood divider on the narrow width of the crate to form 2 compartments. The blue/green foam formed the padded walls of ea compartment.  

I saved all the thin white packing foam as dividers between the lenses. 

Each crate holds 48 lenses  

Cheap, quick and dirty.

Steve Bailey

Brooklyn College 

I'd worry about someone dropping the entire milk crate.  I use ETC cardboard boxes.

I once had a show come in, where the ME had ordered enough extra lenses to change every S4-PAR.  The shop packed them in a Leko roadcase, the kind with carpet lined 4 across x 3 deep 8"x8" compartments. Lens, foam, lens, foam, lens, bubble wrap, lens...  We only swapped out 12 lenses because we hung an NSP bar where an MFL bar should have been, and vice-versa.  Still don't understand why we needed 500 extra lenses for a one-off when we were only 3 miles from the shop. 

I'd worry about someone dropping the entire milk crate.  I use ETC cardboard boxes.

I once had a show come in, where the ME had ordered enough extra lenses to change every S4-PAR.  The shop packed them in a Leko roadcase, the kind with carpet lined 4 across x 3 deep 8"x8" compartments. Lens, foam, lens, foam, lens, bubble wrap, lens...  We only swapped out 12 lenses because we hung an NSP bar where an MFL bar should have been, and vice-versa.  Still don't understand why we needed 500 extra lenses for a one-off when we were only 3 miles from the shop.