[sdiy] Organizing Components

[greg montalbano]

I've been wrestling with this same issue -
after 25 years of DIY, I've got on hell of a lot of components -- gave up 
on the plastic drawer thing early on (too many possible categories;  would 
have needed about 600 drawers to hold it all).
What I'm currently doing is using the "plastic bag" approach:  a large 
plastic bag of (for example) electrolytics, filled with small ziplocs of 
different values.
Same thing for resistors, CMOS, opamps, specialized ICs, etc.
It's not elegant;  but it keeps things in their place, more or less;  and 
whenever I'm in the middle of a project or repair, I only have to look in 
one place.
Better suggestions gratefully accepted...

~GMM

At 01:32 PM 3/2/04 -0500, Michael wrote:
>I'm looking for an inexpensive way to organize components, especially 
>resistors
>and caps. I've seen the cheap plastic cabinets with plastic drawers, of 
>course,
>but wonder about better ways. Does anyone have any good storage ideas? 
>What are
>you all using?
>Thanks.
>Mike