Artie,

Go to Wal-Mart or your local photo shop and see if you can pick up some
35mm film containers.
Most of these are sort of a dark gray or black color with either a white
or gray top.
I have used these to house many SMT components over the years, and still
have a number of them in my lab.
The last time I got any was earlier this year.  Imy daughter worked at
Wal-Mart for a while late last year 
and earlier this year, so I had her ask the people in the photo dept. to
save them for me.  They did.
I have probably gotten about 100 or so over the last 12-14 months.  And
they were free.
Give it a shot.  

If you can';t get any of them, you could always try Wal-Mart for divided
plastic boxes.  They're in the crafts
Section, and usually have 12-20 small compartments.  They're being sold
as a Bead Storage Box, but they work 
Well for things other than beads.

I believe Fry's also has boxes of this type.
	
Regards,

	
Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf
Of Artie Jones
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 3:04 PM
To: piclist@mit.edu
Subject: [OT]storage of bulk smt components?

Hi all,

I have been given a tremendous quantity of surface mount components,
left over from a commercial operation. There are anywhere from 100 to
1000 of each value, although there are some sandwich sized ziplock bags
that are nearly full!!!!!!! They are all resistors and capacitors, so
static is not an issue. There are 4 boxes of these parts, the vast
majority are 0805 and
0603 size. The shipping weight oft he boxes was around 30 pounds each,
there are 3 boxes! And the components are bulk packed, not on reels so
there are literally millions of parts.

They are sealed in ziplock bags of various sizes, but I need some way to
store them in smaller quantities, perhaps 100 or so parts for each
value.
The problem is I can't find the value I need easily!!!! I need something
a like a container or plastic box with small compartments, so I can pull
some of each value and put them in the compartments so I can keep it in
the workshop and not have to struggle to find the values I need when I
need them.

Can anyone suggest inexpensive containers that might be suitable for
this purpose??? Storage containers should be inexpensive.

Any ideas??

Thanks,

T
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