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

[Donald Wilhelm]

My resistor stock is sorted by standard value - so in one drawer I keep the
0.27, 2.7, 27 ... 27Meg resistors, in another I keep the 3x values, etc.
All my resistor stock fits in a 24 drawer cabinet (5% values) and each
drawer is labeled with the first 2 significant digits of the values in that
drawer.  It is easy to open the correct drawer and look at the third band
(multiplier) for any resistor that I need.

73,
Don W3FPR

----- Original Message -----

> 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.
>