[sdiy] Organizing ICs

[Adrian Corston]

On 08/27/2012 09:20 AM, David Moylan wrote:
> I'm wondering if anyone has come up with a good method for organizing 
> their IC stocks.  I've got parts drawers for resistors and another for 
> caps, but they don't seem like a good solution for ICs, especially if 
> you have a tubes worth.  Any suggestions?

I bought a huge sheet of antistatic foam ($40 for 2 square metres) and 
cut it down to size to fit in parts drawers.  I stack them four deep 
with up to 10 types in each drawer, depending how many I have.  Works 
well for me - took a while to transfer everything when I changed over.  
Much, much easier to find things though.  My build time has dropped 
noticeably since I moved all small parts to a wall of several dozen 24 
slot drawers.  Ah, organisation.

Cheers,
A.