14 Dec
2007
14 Dec
'07
2:02 a.m.
Message: 6
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:12:19 -0800 (PST)
From: Mr Ian Primus <ian_primus at yahoo.com>
So, now I think I need to actually, finally organize
my parts. You see, I
started to do this a long time
ago, and I have a lot of those little plastic drawers. I got about as far
as the basic parts, and half way
through the electrolytics. Everything else is semi-sorted into drawers,
albiet with rather vauge
I set up some of those drawers years ago (more than 25, eek) resistors and
caps sorted by value, Ics transistors diodes by type #.
I was in small scale production and the system seemed to work well enough.
Untill recently I had a couple of regular products for customers who shipped
in parts so they had a set of drawers for themselves and a very basic stock
control system on an Excel spreadsheet. No longer in production but still
have the drawers, a pain to set up but many years ago, but I can find most
things I want in seconds.
Otherwise, you'll spend two hours just trying to
find that 330 ohm current
limiting resistor you need.
Thats why I set it up.
about - how bad is it to store IC's in those clear
plastic parts drawers?
Any problem with static?
What about CMOS chips?
A lot of my personal stuff is older 74 flavours, that does
not seem to
suffer static problems, Cmos is kept in antistatic foam or those black a/s
carriers that the I/c's are shipped in. I have a whole box full of empty
carriers if somebody wants them. I'cs shipped in A/s tubes are kept in tube
untill used.
The system has served me well over the years, a bit anal maybe but it worked
for me.
Mike