[sdiy] Organizing Components

[phillip m gallo]

My store is done in levels:   

Level One and Two are inventoried and this is maintained regularly.
Acquisition of parts is usually done to excess, that is, if i need 3 i
buy 10.  The quantity, description and type are entered into the list
and debited when used.   This is what makes this storage format work.
Levels beyond this are inventoried in memory and fable and are
re-discovered about once a year.


Level One is for HOT parts (used all the time), are kept at hand, and
has 2 divisions:

1) queued for a current or next project and all associated in a box (or
laying on the bench) to avoid searching.  
2) general purpose part (res/cap/tran/chip) applicable for any project
and reside in ~150 drawers attached to a peg board next to my bench.
This peg board has blister pak's on it as well.  Resistors/Caps store by
magnitude and type.  Types never mix no poly's with ceramics or film
with carbon.  Transistors store by technology
(bi-polar/FET/Mos/single/dual) and polarity (pnp/npn, N/P).  Regulators
by package and polarity.


Level Two is for Warm parts that are envisioned as candidates for
projects early on the project wish list.  

These parts are kept near by but in a filing cabinets.  These parts
store by association;  Gen Op-amps, Special Op-amps,  Special Linear,
Logic, Micro's, Proms, DACs, ADC, LCDs, etc.  Storage is not especially
uniform but generally are kept in clear plastic boxes obtained from
manufacturers for samples or small quantity purchase, i have some tubes
but unless i have 20-100 of them they move to these boxes.  Level two
also includes EVM's kept in orig. packaging.


Level Three is cold store, replacement parts for things,  technology
that is cool but not applicable in the near term.  

These part store in boxes, these boxes store in closet shelves and pack
away such that getting at them requires moving other stuff (like the
glockenspiel, and some keyboard manuals and other stuff that convince my
family i am nuts).


Level Four is Frozen Storage.   

Kept in the garage. This is mostly large form factor parts, sub
components (old projects finished/un-finished), part obtained in large
quantities, and larger stuff not relevant to components such as
E.Pianos, Synthes, computers, terminals, drives etc.

regards,
p
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