Parts Bin

F2-1 ?

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Some museum would love to have that stuff.

John

I went thru bin location by bin location listing the contents ;-)

(The left column is bin locations... first two characters, the drawer,

-separator in the drawer :-) ...Jim Thompson

I call dibs on the dead fly!

"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

TMS99532ML ?

Isn't that from the TMS9900 cpu family? I thought you were more of an analog guy?

Bob

You sound far more organised than I am. I use those metal drawer office filing cabinets with each drawer about a4 size and about 2" high for parts storage. Labelled like ttl. cmos, memory, analog etc, but all the original one's have overflow'd into plastic bins with lids fo some of the more specialised stuff.

I lifetime of collecting and using semis means there's stuff going back to the 1960's, though no point contact afaik...

Regards,

Chris

The great thing about the shift to SMT is that my prototype stock now fits into a box of envelopes :)

Except for a few capacitors I only have thru-hole dual-inline stuff ;-) ...Jim Thompson

Mine is plastic hang-on-the-wall drawer units, 3 drawers by 3 drawers, in a 2 unit by 5 unit array, so I have 90 drawers.

Most drawers have spacers inserted to partition into 3 bins.

So the location designation B2-3 refers to the drawer at row B, column

I get that same feeling every time I walk into the local adult toy/leather goods shop. ;-)

I have a bunch of heavy optomechanics as well as electronics, so I splurged and got a 15-drawer Vidmar cabinet with 3 inch square plastic bins. It fits an amazing amount in a small floor space.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Same way with a lot of machine tool fixtures. I have no idea how you could use most of those things.

John

Hey, don't knock adult toy shops. I once got paid quite handsomely to write a mailing list manager for a friend who was the accountant at one - he found the whole thing rather comical, but the pay was good.

Two years later, I got a call from some guy who wanted a copy of the mailing list (about 8,000 names and addresses of pre-qualified buyers) - we made a deal - I'd send him 1,000 names/addys for him to test, and if he liked it, I'd sell him the whole thing for 800 bucks.

Easiest 800 bucks I ever made, albeit I felt kinda bad about ripping off the former client.

Cheers! Rich

You should have. That was outright theft, not to mention betrayal.

John

I put small parts in coin envelopes. They take up very little volume, and I can scribble notes on them, stick the Digikey label on the back, stuff test adapters inside, whatever. The envelopes go in bins by catagory. If I need a sub-category, like SRDs inside the "diodes" bin, I stuff them into a sandwich baggie. This must take up about 1/20 the volume of a traditional parts cabinet, and the attached documentation is a huge bonus.

ftp://jjlarkin.lmi.net/Parts_1.JPG

ftp://jjlarkin.lmi.net/Parts_2.JPG

John

So, are you going to join the clients name with s.e.d regulars and post their kinks here? ;-)

On a related note: They've just developed a blow up sex doll for old folks. Its exactly the same as the regular doll, but the instructions specify inflating it only halfway.

Sure. They don't want old guys like you to die while blowing them up.

There's a tradeoff with speed, though...in my lab at IBM, my electronics workbench was a seven-foot Lista table with two 30-inch wide cabinets as the pillars. Each cabinet consisted of about 10 drawers full of components and tools. I could pull a drawer open, grab the capacitor I needed, and have it installed in about 20 seconds.

For prototyping, that's like seven league boots. I got some extra business this month, so I put in an RFQ for a smaller version from Vidmar.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

No Radio Shack stores closing in your area?