[sdiy] Organizing ICs

[Tom Wiltshire]

Another vote for antistatic foam in drawers.

I bought a set of office desktop filing drawers (like these) and filled them with foam. This provides plenty of nice shallow drawers.

http://www.kwikneasy.co.uk/concise/5DrawerSet.html

I've got one drawer for logic, one for PICs, one for audio chips, etc etc.

Tom


On 27 Aug 2012, at 01:18, Adrian Corston wrote:

> 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.
> 
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