[R-390] Tube organizing help

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On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:51:52 -0500, Roy Morgan <roy.morgan at nist.gov> wrote :

> Here's how it works at my place, at least so far as I have actually 
> organized the tubes:
> 
> I use reclaimed office copy machine paper boxes. Inside them, I use the 
> flat trays that soda cans come it.  (Both I acquire at the coffee/copier 
> room at work.)
> 
> Any tubes I have in individual cartons can be stood up in the trays. Two 
or 
> three trays fit into each paper box.  In many cases, I have a lot of one 
> type of tube, e.g. 6AU6 or 6V6, and they go into plastic freezer-quality 
> baggies clearly marked with the type number.  Paper notes may go into the 
> bag: "All test good" or "Not tested" or whatever.
> 
> Premium tubes such as 7788, Bugle Boy anything, or the like get new tube 
> boxes and are marked in red.
> 
> Larger tubes in boxes can similarly be stacked into either the trays or 
in 
> the paper box itself.
> 
> I generally separate mini tubes from octals, and larger tubes get their 
own 
> boxes. Here are examples of categories:
> 
> Minis:
> Bulk Minis
> Octals
> S-line tubes
> Large TV tubes (compactrons)
> Small TV tubes (4-, 5- volt ones)
> Low voltage Rectifiers (5U4, 5R4, 5Z3's and the like
> High voltage Rectifiers (872A, 866's ...)
> Delay tubes
> VR tubes
> Transmitting tubes
> (A pair of 4-400's gets it own box)
> Dud tubes (for scrounging the bases to use as connectors or coil plugs)
> 
> I have made no effort to account for every tube, or to set in order all 
the 
> tubes I have.  Maybe one day.
> 
> Roy

Wow.  That sure beats my "dump 'em in the little place in the back of the 
tube tester where the leads are stored" method...

Barry