everything except for the footlocker. That was the old annoying storage system. I have replaced the footlockers with the shelving unit.
This is my bin of "breakout boards" and displays.
Full sheet is the complete inventory, each bag as its contents (by cutting that section from an inventory printout and stuffing it in a bag. I use grocery store "snack" bags for most parts as they are not very large.
This works for me, not everybody.
I also have a box of tubes with misc parts, as well as a couple of reels of parts. These are on the inventory but stored else where.
I use one of these for my shrink tubing. The tubing seems more of a PIA than the IC's
There are also black cardboard ESD safe bins. Sadly, hundreds went out the door when we auctioned off all the company assets.
Paul
One of my boxes is also dedicated to shrink tubing. I actually have a huge stock of shrink tubing due to it being a supply for a product I used to manufacture, but one of those 20x6x6 boxes is plenty big enough to store the assortment I need to have in an easy to access location.
True, so I just have to make sure there's no external ESD source within the static shielding bag like Styrofoam or clothing.
Ohh, that's actually make sense because no charge will be accumulated in the bag that will even reach the tube. This is a good insight but I'm curious, wouldn't a non-static dissipative tube in contact with IC not generate charge? For me I think this is unlikely unless you shake the bag for a lot for the pins to move.
It's accessible, yes. I'm just curious how high you put it on your shelves? because an open top would spill the box's contents when it falls.
Yeah, this is true compared to bins.
As long as you don't those bulky items often. For me, I'd like my wire spool just near me so I can access it easily
Oh yup, the Gorilla rack you were referring to. Not sure what it looks like but I did a quick search on Amazon and the results showed racks that were neat especially those with caster wheels.
Do you cross your list out when one of your parts are no longer available?
Me as well, it's really convenient for small boards that are too big for the component drawer boxes but too small as a standalone set in shelves.
How do you store them? if I may ask
Is this similar as seen here?
or is it the rigid plastic kind like crates?
Yeah, I'd love to upgrade the system to those. I put this together during the most serious part of the pandemic when I was trying to stay pretty conscientious about staying isolated, including avoiding unnecessary shipments, so I just made due with what I happened to have on hand. I'm counting on the static dissipative bags to be sufficient protection.
The shelving unit is 6 ft tall.
I don't make a habit of dropping them. These are 20 inch long boxes in spaces that are just taller than the height of the box. I would need to fumble pretty seriously to knock one down. If it does happen to fall, there's nothing terribly fragile in there.
Like this, only with 9 shelves instead of 5:
That's a good enough height if in your part it doesn't fall.
Hopefully, I do still have some boards in bubble wrap. Some in ESD-safe bubble wrap while some in regular bubble wrap but it's in static shielding plastic first.
I saw one of these in Amazon too. It's nice. You can easily set the height of your shelves from the looks of it.
They are but being in the box adds protection when your bags open up and the components fall out of it.
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