[Elecraft] Slightly OT: Better living through sane component storage

Wed Jan 22 12:28:00 2003

Bob
Here's one idea that has worked well for me.
I use a 50-drawer Akro-Mills parts bin.  It has 5 colums of drawers with 10
rows.
For my resistors, each row represents a power of 10.  In other words, the
first
row covers values from 1 to 9.9.  Second row is 10 to 99, 3rd row 100 to
999, etc.
Each drawer has a lengthwise divider, allowing typically about 2 values of
resistor
per section.  Works really well and makes finding a resistor fast very easy.
73, Bob N6WG

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All:

Over the years, after constructing numerous small projects
that admittedly more often end up as Smoke Alarm Triggers
rather than usable station additions, I have in my possession
what used to be called a "junk box".  Problem is, it's more like
"bags and boxes and shelves of junk" resembling an organized
inventory of components in much the same way a pound of
raw hamburger resembles a cow.

Now to my question:  With all the numerous storage boxes,
shelves, and what-have-you out there, I was wondering what
brands (URLs would be nice in any replies) have worked out
best for the experimenters out there who have had my very
problem of organizing the hundreds (thousands? God, please
don't let it be millions) of components one manages to
assimilate over the years.

Thanks in advance for all your replies, as always.  Whenever
I post even the silliest question here, I always get really good
replies.  I'm hoping I'm on a roll here.

73,

Bob  WA4FOM

K2 # 2537 ("B" upgraded and not afraid to use it)

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