Mike Harrison wrote:
> Lengths of tape in the 50-100 parts sort of range, as typical for
> development quantites don't coil well,

Sure they do.  That's so short you can just fold it once.

> 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.

No, you only search thru and label the drawers.

For example, take a look at

  http://www.embedinc.com/temp/a3.jpg
  http://www.embedinc.com/temp/b3.jpg

The first happens to be the generic 100 Ohm resistor drawer.  If I end up
with substantial quantities of a particular package then I'll give it its
own drawer.  The second is one particular model of chip inductor that we
must have bought a few 100 of once.  In cases like that I try to keep
information on the exact part model to make re-ordering easy.  You can see =
a
small piece of the Mouser label in the bottom of the drawer for that reason=
..
The front of the drawer has a label on it that you can't see in that
picture, but it says:

  950nH, bead, 0805
  200mA 600mOhm

although the "Ohm" is replaced with the omega symbol, which is not so easy
to to in this email message.


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