Need ideas for organizing common resistors.

[Naysayer]

I need to order another set and I want to keep them organized, easy to access. Suitable for storage as my work area is small. I end up losing too many and they easily disorganized. Anyone try a Loose-leaf binder? What do the Techs here use?

 

[saturated]

I'm far from organized but I made a place in an old jameco box

 

[Cable Guy]

The binder, that sounds like a great idea, maybe you can get inserts with pockets like a baseball card collection.

 

[Lost Ram]

I'm far from organized but I made a place in an old jameco box

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I use similar bins as well. I have a cabinet with bins for 2879 and similar amps with all the repair parts in them and labeled. I also have a cabinet for the Ameritron tube amp parts as well as a bin for their solid state amps. Another cabinet for all the popular range of caps and resistors for generic whatever repairs. Then the unpopular stuff is just in a box under the bench with them put in zipper bags from such range to such range.

 

[Cable Guy]

I keep them in labeled baggies, ascending values, in a latching case with adjustable compartments.

Not the best but it has worked well for me, until now. I'm seriously thinking of a binder now.

 

[Naysayer]

Thanks for the suggestions, all.

I use ziplocks for the specialty and large resistors (NI, ww, >1W, etc) and keep'em in a small box. I'm going to explore the 3-ring binder approach. I've seen Jewelry stored like that.

 

[Cable Guy]

Ran across this, has a flap to keep the parts in and has more room inside the pockets compared to a baseball card page. Kinda expensive though.

 

[Cable Guy]

This seems even better, and cheaper too.

 

[VMC]

This seems even better, and cheaper too.
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That's a pretty ingenious solution for a small bench or service calls. Thanks for the idea!

 

[Cable Guy]

That's a pretty ingenious solution for a small bench or service calls. Thanks for the idea!

Well, I would keep only a handful of parts in the pockets and store the bulk elsewhere, probably in the same setup I have now but I can move it all away from the small bench and that would give me more room to store manuals, binders and more radios. It would mean restocking the binder from time to time, I ordered some of the pocket pages, if I don't care for using them for parts, the better half can use them for garden seed organization.

 

[Smokinone]

I use these plastic boxes. Of course mine are a little over filled, but someone more organized would do better. But it keeps my different components basically on the same place, and I can see what's in them, and they're easy to handle and stack. I have a couple of different brands but they all work the same. Adjustable inserts as well.