Let's make the station more maintenance intensive!

[salix_catus]

I have a suggestion. A new kind of backpack. A kind of matter-compressing materials backpack. It would work like ore satchels and produce satchels, in that you can dragclick-auto-collect certain stuff into it, but you can use it as a backpack and take stuff from it. it would stack materials into numbered piles in your bag.
the stackable/autocollectable items for would be ores, sheets, bars, rods and tiles.
You would also be able to normal items into it. they just wouldn't stack.
This would make repair work far more easier.
a very nice compliment to this would be the suggested vacuum cleaner for the janitor: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4969

you can already kind of do that with portable reclaimers. click-dragging scrap and broken glass along with broken rods will suck them up into the reclaimer for later use.

I didn't say anything about broken glass and scrap collection. this is about making it easier for engineers to fix things by providing a storage device that can autocollect materials and store a large amount of them, ready for fixing stuff with.( If you were responding about the vacuum cleaner, that is meant for more than just scrap)