Large IC's don't even fit. A nice pair of surgical tweezers & steady hands is all it takes to lift parts out. All cells except the one I'm extracting from stay closed so I can rest my hands on all the other cells without bothering the contents. These boxes stack nicely & have good rubber strips on the bottom to prevent it from sliding around. Yes, the contents stay put very well when the lid is shut so dropping or bumping is not a threat. Not so when the lid is open. By the way, I remember paying $42 USD after shipping for mine. The ebay price looks great. Rick How hard/easy is it get parts in and out? Looking at keeping all surface mounted Rs, Cs and semis in something like it. Three of those bins would fit on the bench and pull parts as they get placed on the board. I need something that will keep thing safe and components sorted even if it gets dropped or bumped. Those bins seem to fit that requirement. Adi On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Rick Thompson wrote: > I bought one of those and absolutely love it. I only use it for a staging > area prior to hand placement of smt parts onto the board and not for > long-term storage. They are top-notch quality and thus very expensive, so I > only have one. But if it were full of parts & knocked off the end of the > bench as someone else described, I'd have a hard time believing that it > would spill any of its contents. >> I am looking for storage for individual parts rather then strips. Are >> these things any good? >> -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist