On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 09:13:34 -0500, you wrote:

>Mike Harrison wrote:
>> 2) The container must be reasonably long in at
>> least one dimension to accommodate tapes and cut-down tubes
>
>Long strips of tape can be easily coiled or cut into multiple smaller
>strips.  If you have whole reels, then store those separately in "backup"
>storage and cut off a strip or two to put in your quick access storage.

I'm talking primarily development quantites, not production, so anything be=
tween single to low
hundreds, in a random assortment of tape, bag and tube, and way too many to=
 dedicate a single
drawer/box to each.
Lengths of tape in the 50-100 parts sort of range, as typical for developme=
nt quantites don't coil
well, especially paper ones, and need something to keep it coiled to avoid =
the jack-in-a-box effect
when the container is opened. You don't want to cut tapes unnecessarily as =
it means you end up with
more bits to search through, and you have to label them all. You might also=
 want to use a strip in a
passive or short-tape feeder for  pick & place - even manually placing mode=
rate quantites is
significantly quicker from a single strip & vacuum pen.=20

>> 6) Cheap - I need at least 40-50 of them to cover the range of parts
>> I want to store.
>
>LOL, all this fuss over only 40-50 parts!?  I had more than that in high
>school.  In that case one 64-drawer small parts cabinet for something like
>$30 is all you need.

No -  40-50 categories of parts -
http://electricstuff.co.uk/forumfiles/P1030143.jpg
Could easily be many  hundreds of  parts in each box and dozens of differen=
t types.=20
The point is the box is big but shallow so you can easily find what you're =
looking for amongst a
fair number of parts in random quantites and packaging.=20



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