Baby food jars and a labeling machine.

For bigger stuff I have prefab "Bin boxes", cardboard bins about 6" x 18" x
4" deep that line up on shelves.  Not just parts but partially done projects
can go in the bin boxes.

Doug Butler
Sherpa Engineering


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> [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of William Chops Westfield
> Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 5:36 AM
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: [EE]: organizing your junk...
>
>
> Maybe I'm just getting too much and my problem is unsolvable,
> but...  How do
> y'all organize your parts collection (from a hobbyist/researchy lab
> perspective, not "production parts")?  Some things I've got enough of for
> them to justify their own little boxes, some things are in tubes, there's
> the nominally nicely organized jameco set of resistors, there's
> the bags of
> harvested caps (currently divided into "high voltage" and "low voltage"),
> there's assorted chips from assorted families that might get
> grouped either
> way, there's big and heavy inductors and transformers, there are LEDs and
> light bulbs and reels of SMT parts and ammo packs of caps and new
> transistors and harvested transistors, and all too many heatsinks and fans
> and boxes and board that have yet to be harvested and who knows what else.
> And no matter what I'm looking for at any one time, I can never
> seem to find
> it!  How do you organized YOUR junk?
>
> (I THINK I'm particularly interested in ways you group and/or separate new
> parts from harvested parts and such - that seems to be one of the big
> complications ...)
>
> BillW
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