[sdiy] Organizing Components

[Don Tillman]

   > Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 11:47:34 -0700
   > From: Scott Gravenhorst <music.maker at gte.net>
   > 
   > Someone here uses small manila envelopes for resistors and small
   > caps.  

That's me.  Here are the details:

Go to any office supply store and buy lots of small manilla envelopes,
2.5 inches by 4.25 inches (or the metric equivalent).  Use each
envelope to store up to about 100 resistors of a given value.  Write
the resistor value on the flap.

Also pick up a few of those fancy shoeboxes used for storing
photographs, VHS tapes, or cancelled checks.

Glue three cardboard spacers into the showbox, and you have instant
storage for an awful lot of resistors.  Here are pretty much all the
E24 values of 1/4 watt resistors, plus a bunch of precision
resistors, with plenty of room to spare:

  http://www.till.com/random/parts1.jpg

You can also use the same system for storing IC's.  Buy some
conductive foam and slice it up into 2.5 inch by 4.25 inch rectangles,
and glue on labels:

  http://www.till.com/random/parts2.jpg

Easy to build, inexpensive, easy access to the parts, and you can
throw the boxes into a closet when you're not using them.

  -- Don

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Don Tillman
Palo Alto, California
don at till.com
http://www.till.com