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From: "Adi Linden" <adil@adis.on.ca>
>
> I am using more and more surface mounted parts. What are good parts bins
> to keep surface mounted parts in? My platic baggies in a cardboard box
> just don't cut it anymore....
>

If your not in a production environment, and you only need to keep
small numbers of each part, you can use small envelopes like the
ones below for strips of resistors/caps/inductors.  Mark the
envelopes with the contents and put them in a long thin cardboard
box to keep them sorted.  It sort of looks like how business cards
come in a box.  If you want to be "static compliant", there are
carousels available that have many drawers (all made out of
static dissipative plastic) that can be grounded.  You can read
that as "expensive".

http://www.staples.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StaplesProductDisplay?storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=-1&productId=18235&cmArea=SEARCH

For personal use, I use the envelopes for all the R/C/L's and
keep the chips in static bags.  Since the discretes far
outnumber the chips, I can organize most of my "inventory"
in a very small space.


Ken
________________________________________
"Well that never happened in any of the simulations"
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