From: Grant on
On Sun, 01 Aug 2010 18:07:42 -0700, mike <spamme0(a)go.com> wrote:

>Scott wrote:
>> I have all these tapes of through-hole resistors, about 100 resistors
>> per tape. I've yet to find any box that's particularly suited to
>> organizing them. Right now each tape is labeled and they're all
>> stuffed in a shoebox that I have to constantly rummage through to find
>> which value I'm looking for. Does anyone have a particularly clever
>> way of keeping track of all of them efficiently?
>
>Pull the tape off while you still can.
>If you store all the decades in the same drawer (1.2,12,120,1200 etc.)
>it takes a LOT fewer drawers. It's not hard to find when you're just
>looking
>for one decade color...and you KNOW it's in that drawer.

Ah, didn't think of that one, I got 121 E24 values in bags, stapled
together in decades, waiting for a better solution.

24 containers an easier option.

I suppose I'll move on to one of those SMD all-value resistor packs
one day.

Grant.