end of the year, while cleaning up the laboratory (we already can see some surface of the table), there is a bunch new SOIC ICs inside tubes around here.
8mm tape n reel storage management is fine and I put the reels into a box and the box into a shelf. Everything with consecutive values and everything is fine - except the damned tubes with small quantities of SOIC or exotic case of power SMD. Some of the tubes contain only a few pieces what would be possible to put them into SMD containers but if we like to use them in feeders we have to put them back in the tube with the danger of bend wings.I considered to put the tubes into a drawer but most time there is only one tube for each value and the slots in the drawer should be smaller than a finger for not wasting to much space. I also considered a perpendicular grid with rows like a staircase but unfortunatley the tubes have diffrent length.
How do you store your tubes?