@cr0sh I put my small parts in some plastic bins. It's a little organizer I got from Wally world.
What I have are several Stack-On multi-drawer parts bins (and drawer separators); I have around 240 small drawers spread over 6 bins (two 60 drawer bins, and 4 30 drawer bins). I also have a label maker.
My issue isn't lack of space (well, not yet - hopefully), but rather a good system for the parts. I figure that I will have a few drawers dedicated in one of the bins for certain resistors; say 220 or 330 ohm, 1K, and 10K, a drawer for some general purpose rectifiers (1n4004), a few drawers for general transistors (2n2222 and its complement 2n3097, IIRC - and maybe another for some darlingtons I have), plus some drawers for various other ICs and such I have (like ULN2003 and L298), plus LEDs and such.
But the other drawers - where I have to put the remaining components - I am struggling to come up with a workable system for the vast number of different size resistors I have. Then the question is should I separate wattage sizes. I also have some oddball size resistors (a large 1W, a couple of sand power resistors, and one or two high wattage resistors in a heatsink) - which leads me to think those need to go in their own "special" bin for now, since I don't have many of a single value.
Then of course, some resistors I have are still on "tape" and I have like 200 pieces of those in a bundle, all the same value...
I hate sorting these parts, but its got to be done!
