On Thursday, Jun 12, 2003, at 15:56 Europe/London, Jeremy Derr wrote:
most techs use plastic bins - you can get them at Office Max, Office Depot, etc etc, and at most computer stores that also sell tools - MicroCenter, Fry's, etc. effectively, they're just like ice-cube trays, but with more compartments and a top.
if it's a take apart that's particularly daunting (any iBook) or that I haven't done in a while, I'll put scraps of paper in the slot with the screws... but generally, i fill each slot with the screws that were required to take out a specific part even if some of the screws are different. all the screws from the logic board, or the modem, or .. you get the picture.
lots of techs also use paper cups in mostly the same way, but they stack the paper cups as they go.
Im a cheap ass sukka, I use the lids off coffee jars - they're free, but yeh I concur. Here you can also get cool sectioned boxes that have about 20 little square compartments and one big plastic lid you can shut to keep all the screws in.
A good memory helps too though, I managed to do my iBook 300Mhz (really not *that* bad once u get the hang of unclipping the plastics) in a hurry and it went back together not problem, although Apple used almost 100% of the same screws to assemble it so it wasn't too hard to work out which ones were which :).
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