How do you store your SMD components?

[TiN]

Hi gents and lads.

Everybody who is affected by soldering usually have tons of parts and such stuff. It's not easy task to store them all effectively, coz resistors and capacitors have hundreds of variants and different packages, if you mess everything in one box - you will end your life searching necessary part.

How do you solve this problem? Me want see some photos of PURE labs here. p:D

Also maybe we can extend that topic to storage of devices and non-needed PCBs like dead boards for donor parts etc.

(P.S. I know, shammy wins :D That's without any question)

[Gomeler]

I use my dishwasher to store motherboards, video cards, hard-drives, and the like. It works surprisingly well and since I only handwash my dishes it makes perfect sense. DRAM conveniently fits where the silverware is supposed to go :plol:

[BenchZowner]

Every spec in its own transparent plastic bag ( you know those little to... big transparent bags with the "clip seal" ).
Works like a charm for me

[TiN]

Gomeler - wow, priceless :D

BZ. really? Maybe you have not many parts :D I could end with necklace of bags in this case :)
Anybody uses some special boxes?

[knopflerbruce]

I used to have all my CPUs in some motherboard boxes, but I switched to USPS flat rate envelopes later :) I always got a nice box inside, which fits 15 AMD cpus perfectly. The rest: in the drawer of old DFI Venus boxes, and some in AMD plastic trays and blue OEM (?) boxes. I try to keep the sockets separated, otherwise it takes an hour to find a specific CPU:up:

RAM: random box on the floor, split into 4-5 anti static bags, with ddr1 and 2 separated.

Mobos: random mobo/GPU-boxes piled up against the wall. Nearly 1.5m of boards now :p

GPUs: 3 medium sized boxes, agp and pcie separated, except one with random stuff inside.

[TiN]

My SMD parts in glued matches boxes LOL. :)

most of passives 0603 packages, some 0402, some 0805, few 1206, few 2512, chips are in SOIC and TSSOP :) Every box can handle few hundreds of passives and few tens of chips

got tired gluing everything :D

http://xdevs.com/images/smdbank.jpg

:plol:

[nigel]

damn Tin :D

thats hell :D i don't now a word in english to tell you what i see :p

[Chiller]

Every spec in its own transparent plastic bag ( you know those little to... big transparent bags with the "clip seal" ).
Works like a charm for me

i also uses transparent plastics baggy's, and i have a lot of things, also for Vmods,

but at the end, i'm always searching for the bag with stuf i need :headshake:

[Cyph3r_Smurf]

http://web.silvan.dk/picProx/getPic?imageid=34779&template=SilvanProductPageLarge

On the school we use something like these. But i plan to buy something similar for home. But in some smarter box that i can take with me.

[TiN]

I have these too, for bigger parts. But they are way too big for small SMD 0603 and 1206 stuff. You will end with piles of boxes only for resistors. Match boxes are small enough and tight, storing hundreds of passives of different values )