[personal] cctalk Digest, Vol 52, Issue 27

[Mike Hatch]

> My main component storage is a set of interlocking drawers arranged in a
> block about 4 feet wide by 3 high.  Some drawers are square-fronted
> (about 1.5" sq) and some are double-width.  The resistors are in
> double-width drawers, with two E12 values per drawer.  First row is
> 10/12 ohm, 15/18 ohm, 22/27, 33/39, 47/56, 68/82.  Next is 100/120, etc,
> then 1k0/1k2, etc, and so on up to 680k/820k, then the last row is
> assorted "1M to 8M2", "10M and over", "less than 10R", "high wattage",
> and things like that.  For E24 and closer-tolerance values, I just put
> them in the drawer that's got the nearest-matching label.  Capacitors I
> have squeezed into 1 row, one decade to a drawer, and a couple of bigger
> drawers for larger electrolytics.  The really big ones are in a box
> elsewhere.

So spookily similar I'm now very very worried ! or perhaps its a British 
thing.

> To give an example of how the ICs are stored, there's a drawer for "LS00 -
> LS80" or thereabouts, with the lower end of that range stored in the
> front and the upper half in the rear section of the drawer.  So there
> are 4 or 5 drawers for each logic family.  Two places I used to work had
> one drawer per type but that's overkill for my collection.

One drawer for 2-4 types for Ic's Transistors diodes.

Mike