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Tackle it Again

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 The Thrifty Rocketeer blog continues... Recently, the topic of the best range box came up again. And as you might expect, the more people involved, the more options and options popped up. Frankly, I started with a plastic fishing tackle box when I was new to this hobby, if only because almost 50 years ago in the early 1970s, they sold this rigid tan and tope plastic tackle boxes at the local 3-D or Yankee store. I bought one and began using it for my electronics parts tool box when I was in high school.  I still have it. Image my surprise when in the early 1990s, I saw another identical one pop up in the possession of a young man with schizophrenia.  He not only had the same tool box, but also an identical pair of black padded Sony headphones that I bought at the same time.   (As a local in this newly adopted college town, he was well known as a harmless individual who was given to hearing voices that directed him to give things to the local radio station. I happened to work there, so