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

[Jessie Oberreuter]

On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Donald Wilhelm wrote:

> 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.

     I tend to go by order of magnitude b/c I generally know that range
right off, but might want to diddle with the value or need to construct a
odd valued resistor from others of its kin.  The magnitude sorting means
most of my options are available from a single tray.