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Best way to organize small electrical parts?

Best way to organize small electrical parts?

Best way to organize small electrical parts?

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I have inherited a small mountain of electrical components and parts. Unfortunatly, I have also added to the problem with numerous digikey purchases. Currently we store the parts in either:
a.)Plastic bins with little dividers, one bin per circuit board.
b.)Plastic pins with parts in them , divided and labeled but not sorted by any project.
c.) cardboard boxes with lots of loose digikey original packaging.

I am looking for a cost effective system, with clear bins (to see the parts), ideally each part will live in its own bin, so that I can re-arrange the pins without having to dump the parts out. I would also like the bins to close so that when i drop a bin it does not spill all over the floor.

Someone must make bins to store electronic parts. What do you use or have you used that was most effective?

RE: Best way to organize small electrical parts?

There used to be a modular stackable covered family of IC storage boxes called 'bug boxes'.  They were very expensive.  In the wild, I've only ever seen them in a government laboratory.

Akro-Mils or Flambeau may make something appropriate, but they may not be 'cost effective' by your definition.

Global Industrial Equipment carries racks and cabinets and wall hangers and plastic bins that might be adaptable.

You might consider just coding the boxes and box locations and contents in a database or spreadsheet.  You can use that to look up and find the parts wherever they happen to be stored now, and to guide any physical rearrangement you care to do later.

Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

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