Continuing the discussion from Proposal: Purchase SMD resistor and capacitor kits and toss/recycle the current set of boxes:
I somewhat agree with Tim that if we buy a pre-sorted kit, then it will eventually become unsorted and used up.
We need a reasonable method of sorting what we have, and keep it sorted.
Here’s what I propose. I don’t have any experience with this sort of inventory control, so please comment constructively:
Currently we have large shelves.
That middle one, we should pull everything out, and divide it into smaller compartments.
Each of those can be a size class (0603, 0805, etc)
A bunch of bars are in each compartment.
Those are divided into resistors, caps, and magnitude.
Eg. one bar for resistors between 1k and 9.9k, one bar for resistors between 100ohm and 990ohm, one bar for caps between 1uf and 9.9uf, etc.
Reels are on the bars get moved in the horizontal to roughly position with their values. 1 on the left, 9 on the far right.
All of the non-reel resistors and capacitors can be kept in the box, and prooobably thrown out, depending on quantities. We don’t have to think about that right now.
Thoughts?
This method is cheap in material cost, cheap in setup time, and reasonable in initial sorting effort, I think.