[sdiy] Organizing Components

[Tom Arnold]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 11:02:43AM -0800, greg montalbano wrote:
> 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.

I keep resistors in drawers.  a 12x12 set of small drawers makes it easy for
bulk items like that that need to be quickly accessed.  Another set of
drawers for other common small items ( diodes, transistors ).  I keep bulk
ICs in tubes, lower quantities in bug boxes.  Everything else in ziplock
bags most of which are pegboarded.

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