No, not cheap, just incredibly practical. I use an almost identical system.
Cathy

At 2:29 PM -0600 23/8/01, Jan Shivers wrote:
>I'm embarrassed to admit how cheap I am, but you asked for suggestions...
>
>Back when I was doing manual IHC, I used a metal 9x13" cake pan (with lid)
>from a discount store (about $3 at the time), lined the bottom with a wet
>paper towel, and used disposable 1 ml glass pipets as my slide racks
>(fastened onto a plastic strip with grooves cut into it so the pipets
>wouldn't roll around).  Twenty slides fit in here perfectly, ten to a rack.
>