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Registered Member #162
Joined: Mon Feb 13 2006, 10:25AM
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 3141
I have a mixed storage system (no system!) Small parts I keep in a 48-drawer parts cabinet - worth it Several misc. biscuit tins and plastic boxes.
Lately I use a lot of cheap stackable clear plastic food containers The type that's sold as disposable. I just write on the outside with a marker pen. Once in a while one splits, but they're so cheap. I steal them from the kitchen ;)
Registered Member #103
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 08:16PM
Location: Derby, UK
Posts: 845
ouch, that is a lot of components to sort out.
I keep my stuff in those little drawer cabinets, and the only things that are actually organised properly are the ceramic caps and resistors - I have a drawer dedicated to each value but that's only the E6 series (?) not many anyway. At work they organise resistors by value range - so for example there is a drawer with values 0-100 ohm, 101-330ohm, etc. You can do the same with anything to save space - then you can narrow the value down to the right drawer to save messing about.
As for other components - I just throw them in to drawers, for example 'transistors', leds, etc. Other components such as chips just get scattered around - then I end up buying new ones because I can never find them
I actually ditched a LOAD of old resistors a couple of years ago, because I simply couldn't be bothered to sort them.
Maplins multipacks of things like capacitors and resistors have come in handy so far to stock up, but I'm not sure about their 'lucky bags' of transistors - a bag full of either unmarked or obsolete germanium transistors
Registered Member #215
Joined: Sun Feb 19 2006, 09:14PM
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My stuff is sorted into individual catogories [such as capacitors, resistors, diodes, T0-220 etc] then into [ceramic caps, eletrolyte caps, vari caps etc] (or for semis: IGBT's, PNP/NPN transistors, MOSFETS, etc]
If you wandered into my place and tried to find something you probably couldnt...it's one of those "only YOU know were everything is" type deals
Registered Member #135
Joined: Sat Feb 11 2006, 12:06AM
Location: Anywhere is fine
Posts: 1735
I needed a 3.3K resistor the other day and got it in about 3 seconds from my sotrage system, including taking the boxes off the top, opening the lid, and grabbing the part.
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