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Schuette Metals donates new artifact shelving

A HUGE thank you goes out to Schuette Metals for fabricating a dozen new shelves for a very old shelving unit in our artifact storage area. While our artifact collections continue to grow, our storage space does not. This means we have to be creative in how we use our existing, very old, shelving. Our inquiry to Schuette Metals about the cost of making more shelves was met with an offer to produce them at no cost to the historical society. 

Tony Schmidt, Director of Education & Safety, got the ball rolling with plant manager Justin Danielski. Their engineering intern Eric Breitenfeldt created a computer model based on the one spare shelf we had. The metal was laser cut by Jon Hunholz and removed from the skeleton by Armando Alcione. Central Wisconsin Finishing, a sister company to Schuette Metals, powder coated the metal. Gary Lavigne then formed the flat metal into the shelf shape and it was spot welded by Taylor Eckard. 

Thanks to this great team at Schuette Metals, we've greatly increased storage space on the large shelving unit that holds our "technology" artifacts—typewriters, radios, televisions, telephones, computers and more. According to Schmidt, the Schuette Metals and Central Wisconsin Finishing teams are proud to support the Marathon County Historical Society in their mission to preserve the history of our county.