Thought I could get a poll of what kind of storage drawer / container do you use for quick access.

I am using a storage container with 55 drawers in it.
Drawers are big enough for about 7 50mfd elecro caps.
Which is fine but if you start putting resistors there is a lot of wasted space.

Is there a better way to do this?

Comments appreciated
Phillips

Hi

I keep resistors in those small plastic drawers. Electrolytic caps take up too much room. I use a metal cabinet with drawers 5 1/2 x 3 x about 12" for larger caps and wire wound resistors. Then there are boxes...

Norm

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:Thought I could get a poll of what kind of storage drawer / container do you use for quick access.
:
:I am using a storage container with 55 drawers in it.
:Drawers are big enough for about 7 50mfd elecro caps.
:Which is fine but if you start putting resistors there is a lot of wasted space.
:
:Is there a better way to do this?
:
:Comments appreciated
:Phillips

:Hi
:
: I keep resistors in those small plastic drawers. Electrolytic caps take up too much room. I use a metal cabinet with drawers 5 1/2 x 3 x about 12" for larger caps and wire wound resistors. Then there are boxes...
:
:Norm

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::Thought I could get a poll of what kind of storage drawer / container do you use for quick access.
::
::I am using a storage container with 55 drawers in it.
::Drawers are big enough for about 7 50mfd elecro caps.
::Which is fine but if you start putting resistors there is a lot of wasted space.
::
::Is there a better way to do this?
::
::Comments appreciated
::Phillips

I use the small plastic drawers that come with removable dividers so that each drawer can be split up into as many as 3 compartments if desired. That reduces wasted space for small stuff....resistors, disk caps, etc. For the larger items I have a plastic drawer cabinet with large drawers. For the big electrolytics, output xformers, etc.....good ol' coffee cans sprayed black with computer printed labels stuck on.
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Dennis

Since I live in Sonoma County (California Wine Country), I use wooden wine boxes for storage. The one-bottle boxes are fine for electrolytics, relays, pots, etc. The larger boxes (4 or 6-bottle) are great for transformers and my tube collection. Storage cabinets with plastic drawers are fine for resistors, transistors, mica caps, etc.

Rich

::Hi
::
:: I keep resistors in those small plastic drawers. Electrolytic caps take up too much room. I use a metal cabinet with drawers 5 1/2 x 3 x about 12" for larger caps and wire wound resistors. Then there are boxes...
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::Norm
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:::
:::Thought I could get a poll of what kind of storage drawer / container do you use for quick access.
:::
:::I am using a storage container with 55 drawers in it.
:::Drawers are big enough for about 7 50mfd elecro caps.
:::Which is fine but if you start putting resistors there is a lot of wasted space.
:::
:::Is there a better way to do this?
:::
:::Comments appreciated
:::Phillips
:
:I use the small plastic drawers that come with removable dividers so that each drawer can be split up into as many as 3 compartments if desired. That reduces wasted space for small stuff....resistors, disk caps, etc. For the larger items I have a plastic drawer cabinet with large drawers. For the big electrolytics, output xformers, etc.....good ol' coffee cans sprayed black with computer printed labels stuck on.
::
:Dennis

This question is a little more complex than it might seem.

Take capacitors, for example. I have my most common film caps in a flip-top plastic tray with compartments - it's about 12" x 7", and fits nicely on my bench. This is convenient when I'm recapping a radio and can just pick out the next cap that I need without trapesing over to a cabinet with drawers.

However, the compartments can only hold a dozen or so caps - but I buy the most popular-sized caps, such as .05uF or .1uF, in larger quantities, maybe 2-3 dozen at a time. So I have to separately store the excess caps that won't fit in my plastic compartmentalized box. For those, and also for odd sized caps that are less often used, I use zip-lock plastic freezer bags, the ones that have a white area to write on. I then store those bags in a separate cardboard box.