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Depends how many types and what uses, I buy specific parts for specific
purposes and others for general purpose use so my jellybean parts, 2N3904,
'2222, BC548, TIP41/42, BD139/140, BC639/640, BS150  etc. live in adjoining
compartments in drawers with their complements (BC639/640 are favourites of
mine)

Outside of that I tend to organise by function, family, complement, etc.

RF Power (Not many of these, they tend to be expensive)
RF Low Power, sub divided into Bipolar/MOSFET
Darlington and complements
High Current. (Again, bipolar, MOSFET, Package)
SMD...

Life is too short to be continually sorting and 'filing' but I don't keep a
huge selection of parts, maybe 30-40 types so I can lay hands on them
easily.

Labelling drawers clearly is far more important for me, it's kinda
frustrating to know you've got 100 BC548 somewhere but can't find them.

On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 at 06:36, Bob Blick <bobblick@outlook.com> wrote:

> To save space, storage for the majority of my home stash of small signal
> transistors is a plastic tub. Inside are about 50 or 60 ziploc bags, each
> with 20 to 1000 transistors, one part number per bag, and a big label wit=
h
> part number and a few specs. Saving space this way wastes a lot of time
> each time I need to find a transistor, half the time I don't even know wh=
at
> I have. I am thinking about using one or two of those many-drawer things =
to
> organize them.
>
> OK, how do I group the drawers? By part number seems wrong. By package is
> probably a good start. Then by type(BJT, JFET, MOSFET), maybe. Grouping
> complementary types together seems sensible. What next? Usage(RF,
> switching, linear)? Voltage?
>
> Anyone been through this before and have a system that makes sense? This
> is just for my corner of the hobby sphere.
>
> Thanks, Bob
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