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How do you store/organise SMD components? (or small components in general)
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Microdoser:

--- Quote from: thm_w on October 20, 2020, 09:34:35 pm ---This discussion comes up often
https://www.eevblog.com/product/usleeve/
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/do-you-use-some-system-to-track-homelab-stock-of-components/

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I am sure, but nobody in those threads suggested using the Aidetek little briefcases. They seem perfect for what I need. I don't think I would get on with the folders, but I could stack a few of those briefcases on top of each other. They come in various sizes so each one would be only what I need for a particular PCB so I could just pull that one to pick and place a set of boards. I don't have room for cabinets or drawers. Folders tend to need to be stood a particular way. I don't need a computerised system to keep track of components either.

Asking again has produced, for me at least, better answers.
ANTALIFE:
I use 35mm film pages for storing jellybean parts:
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/42995-REG/Print_File_PF357BXW100_Archival_Storage_Page_for.html
Someone:

--- Quote from: Microdoser on October 20, 2020, 04:16:03 pm ---I think I am edging towards the Aidetek boxes. Many many compartments that have lids which I can put a Dymo label onto all contained in a briefcase that can be put on a shelf. I can imagine having a few of them piled on each other giving me space for hundreds of component types.

I will get one and see how good they keep very tiny components inside. I might remove some 0603 components from the tape and have them sat bare in a box to test.

This one looks like it does what I need:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/AideTek-Resistor-Capacitor-Organizer-Compartments/dp/B005HHFW5Y

EDIT: Just ordered one. Each compartment can hold 500x1206 components so I imagine it could hold 1000x0603 components. That is more than I need.

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They hold 0402 parts with no leakage. 12 bins to a row, 12 rows to a case, 6 decades of E24 or 12 decades of E12. The outside surface is a little slippery so they are easy to keep in a stack and pull them out as needed.
Kasper:
I really like my latest setup: projects in ziplock bags in file folders in filing cabinet.
coppercone2:
I think those plastic test tubes are horrible
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