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Offline Shock

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Small envelopes or antistatic bags are fastest and cheapest way to stow identical leftover small components worth keeping. Divide a drawer into sections and when you have spare components write or label one, throw the components in and use an old transformer or something as a paper weight to keep them tidy until the row fills up.

For larger and easier components like electrolytic capacitors it's easy to throw them into a container until hunting through them becomes too tedious. If you start to accumulate a lot of parts you can sort them into component types.
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Offline Berni

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Also one important tip to keep in mind when making a component sorting system is to make sure it is easily expandable to more categories.

So if you use boxes to sort stuff out make sure there are a good number of empty unused boxes left over. These are reserved for when you start getting a lot of components that don't sensibly fit into any of the existing categories, or when a certain category box starts to get too full it allows you to split it off into two sub category boxes.
 

Online Vovk_Z

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I store most of small parts I often use in a shelf at my table  (in attachment).
SMD parts (resistors, capacitors) are stored in SMD-books.
Almost all my own wired resistors are stored in two boxes.
But it is not everything I have - I have at least one larger box with large parts and so on, and a shelf with a different unsorted staff.
« Last Edit: August 28, 2020, 07:43:13 am by Vovk_Z »
 


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