Bill Gatliff wrote: > Joerg wrote: >> I use a MS-Works database. It lists the qty, part description and (very >> important) where is is stashed. For SMT stuff that I may need at client >> sites I use tiny jewel boxes that have around 50 micro-bins each in a >> 2"*2"*1/3" space, stackable. No chance for labels or anything, without >> this database I would not have a clue what's where. >> > > Even worse, many of my SMT parts are so small that the labeling on them > is pretty meaningless--- if there is any at all. If a box of parts were > to drop open, you'd be better off sweeping the whole pile into the trash > and starting over! >
I meant the bins themselves. The individual storage areas as such tiny square holes that even a label on that part of the box would be like micro-fiche. > I did find these once: http://t-rexelectronics.com/7.html > > Seems great for cut tapes, at least. Where did you get your boxes? > The usual, at a company that closed the subsidiary. They are actually containers where SMT inductors were shipped in. > My wife has suggested mini-scrapbook albums, whose page folders are > about the same size as the small static-safe bags that Mouser ships in. > > Plano makes some small boxes with configurable compartments, but I've > found that their dividers don't seat tightly enough to keep small SMT > parts from passing underneath them. And I worry about static. > John Larkin on s.e.design gave me "the" hint: Coin envelopes. So I bought two boxes of No.1 coin envelopes at Staples and started filing the various parts inside. It's the brownish post-consumer stuff and I could not detect any static on those. You can write onto them, including comments such as "mushy at VCC < 4V". Digikey ships with these nice peel and stick labels and I also stick those on there. So when I run out of something I just key in the number on there and, bingo. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
