workshops

[Jim Patchell]

    This is more or less what I did a long time ago, although, now that I
am just getting back into DIY after a 10 year hiatus, I am having to
restock depleted reserves.  Although, I never purchased every single
value.  I had a number of 1% resistor values that I would always buy in
batches of 100, and quite a few of the 5%.  There are certain values that
are more popular, although, I did end up getting every single value between
1K and 100K, with certain values that seem to pop up alot outside that
range.  I also had a big stock of .1uF ceramic capacitors for power supply
bypassing, polyester caps, all values between .001 and .1uF, a big stock of
2n3904 and 2n3906, etc.

    I will be interested when I see your list.  It may be easier to suggest
additions after I see it.

    -Jim

"Budweiser [FtS]" wrote:

> I was wondering what everyone has for standard electronics
> parts in there workshop. I am sick and tired of having to make a
> trip to the electronics store for a simple schematic that ive found
> on the net. I figured I should do something like get 100 of every
> type of 5% resistor, and the same for various capacitors. The
> problem is see, is that this is going to get expensive very quickly.
>
> So this is what i propose to do. Collate all the opinions from you
> diyers on what you think are the best/common components every
> one should have in there workshop, and publish it on my web page.
> I want to set myself up so that i can just reach to my wall of cabinets
> and just have the component i need. Any takers?
>
> bud