Just brought a Vickers Furniture, Trimline 4 drawer filing cabinet from local charity shop. Purchased some Twinlock, Crystalfile Classic, 50mm, Foolscap files from eBay. The width is correct, but the files bottom out and and aren’t suspended. I’ve googled my first world problem and can’t find different depth options, just either A4 or Foolscap widths. What has my life come to……

50mm

don’t those ones have ‘flat bottoms’ that you have to fold correctly before hanging? So that the hanging bit is U shaped, not V?

Take the filing cabinet and put it next to the canal.

Climb in, and wait for a youth to push you in.

It’s for the best.

RIP QWERTY.

Aye, they do, done the origami bit, but still bottom out. The cabbinet has a 207mm hanging depth and the files require 235mm.

What do you call qwerty in a filing cabinet?

eqrtwy.

Maybe its an Orange 5. Do they have bottoming out issues?

Trimline 4 drawer filing cabinet

is it a 650b filing cabinet or an out of date 26″?

I think you might find you have a 26″ cabinet whereas your files are for the newer 650b or 29″ version. Does it have a stealth dropper hole it’s a dead giveaway.

Edit you wait all day then 3 show up at once

The cabbinet has a 207mm hanging depth and the files require 235mm.

There’s your problem right there 😉

(And I don’t even work in an office)

Hmmmm, so I’m lacking 28mm of hanging droop… I think this is a recurrent problem….

Cut the bottom out of drawers 1 and 3

Weld together drawers 1 and 2 and then 3 and 4

Hanging space problem solved.

(Again….. I don’t work in an office.)

28mm would leave you scuffing not hanging 😉

Viking say that their hanging folders have different depths?

http://www.viking-direct.co.uk/a/bb/Lateral-Suspension-Files/N=2+1289110/

A4 and foolscap seems to refer to depth?

Cut 28mm from the bottom of the suspension files?

Has the filing cabinet been washed in hot water and shrunk?

235mm needed, current 207mm. Difference = 28mm.

Lets assume the CTE is 13.

If you heat the filing cabinet to 10,000degC then they should fit (ignoring the thing melting to a pile of molten metal and burning through to the centre of the Earth).

If you heat the filing cabinet to 10,000degC then they should fit (ignoring the thing melting to a pile of molten metal and burning through to the centre of the Earth).

*insert joke about hot desking here*

Jamie
*insert joke about hot desking here*

Clock is ticking…

You have an A4 filing drawer and foolscap suspension files, you need the (more expensive 😥 ) A4 suspension files.

Can’t you just put a neat fold into each side of the suspension file and stick together with some glue? You know you can do it.

suspension files are rubbish anyway. ring binders, champ.

I thunked A4 v Foolscap referred to the width of the hanger, not the depth of da hang.

I thunked A4 v Foolscap referred to the width of the hanger, not the depth of da hang.

It’s both, Foolscap is larger all round than A4, hence foolscap is both wider in the spacing and deeper in the hang.

Shirley someone on here is shat in an orifice and can wander over to the office clerk and enquire about the depth of insert in their drawers.

So I’ve got Foolscap width and A4 depth? !!! ?

OP, why is this even your problem? Can you not just hand the filing to your secretary? Perhaps with a little pat on the bottom just to let her know how appreciated she is.

Jamie wins, have five pounds.

Aye, they do, done the origami bit, but still bottom out. The cabbinet has a 207mm hanging depth and the files require 235mm.

This highlights the differences between white collar desk drones and blue collar fixer drones 😀

Easy fix, buy a new filling cabinet for your 235mm files

Oh the joys of commencing alien tasks after a set of night shifts….. I was hanging them in the wrong place, as the wife so correctly demonstrated this morning!!! DOH!!!