Organizashunses

[Anonymous No.365755]

How do you organize your stuff, /diy/?

I'm a big fan of these little clear plastic boxes with compartments. They stack well in a chest of drawers.

[Anonymous No.365772]

i use these mounted on a rail

nice collection, the only thing i wouldn't keep though is the non solid electrolytics.

[Anonymous No.365773]

I dont
Its actually a huge problem

[Anonymous No.365783]

>implying I organize anything

[Anonymous No.365793]

>>365755
lol i have the same prob lol it is funny finding like minded people

[Anonymous No.365794]

>>365783
>>365793
wrongpost

[Anonymous No.365795]

side loading parts organizers.

[Anonymous No.365805]

>>365772
I used to have these, but my dust collection in my shop is terrible, so they would get all crudded up with sawdust (especially from cutting mdf).

I since switched to closeable clear plastic boxes and drawers, which is much better.

[Anonymous No.365849]

>>365805
Have you tried using a vacuum system with your wood working power tools, if you don't already have one?

[Anonymous No.365851]

>>365755
The OCD in me wants to organize the caps and resistors according to their values.

[Anonymous No.365864]

>>365851
You may have OCD but wanting to have components organized by value is hardly symptomatic of that.

[Anonymous No.365874]

>>365864
This is the internet. Everyone here has autism and OCD.

[Anonymous No.365944]

>>365755

wow nice. I don;t organize at all. But now I might.

[Anonymous No.366138]

>>365755

similar to my setup, i've been slowly adding and sorting my shit using parts cases from harbor freight, at a cost of $6 per case.

I eventually just got tired of the various makeshift containers

[Anonymous No.366251]

>>365805
>they would get all crudded up with sawdust

You know those round ports on your power tools about the size of of the coupler on a shop vac hose? Yeah...

[Anonymous No.366257]

Endless filing cabinets.

I have upwards of 20, nearly all of them free.

All of them under $10.

Perfect organisers, modifiable, stackable and you can git damn near anything in the drawers.

Want to fit something tiny in the drawer? Put it in a hanging sleeve - you can pick up these by the hundreds for free, usually in the old, unfashionable cabinets.

Theres more I want to get soon too...

[Anonymous No.366263]

>>365755
>How do you organize your stuff, /diy/?
Some big plastic boxes with unsorted/partially assembled/partially working/dead hardware
Some things like the one in your picture and like pic related for recycled components
A small plastic box for new components ,separated by type in small bags

[Anonymous No.366290]

organize....

you mean having a large bag full of smaller bags with components from tayda?

i do however fap on your stack of transformers

[Anonymous No.366291]

OP what are you going to do with all the microwave parts?

[Anonymous No.366303]

>>365755
>keeping resistors of differing resistance in one single compartment
Pig disgusting

[Anonymous No.366305]

>>366303

not to mention recycling resistors when they cost about a penny each.

[Anonymous No.366312]

>>365755
I love those clear boxes. I have about 5 full of electrical bits. I have another 5 clear plastic containers about the size of a shoebox for specific parts, connectors, and wires, and a giant bucket of wires for everything else. For things I don't use often, I sort them into zip locs and vacuum seal them, then just pack them away.

[Anonymous No.366321]

>>365755
made anything out of it?

also, thrash the resistors, they are not worth it. you can buy metal films for 1.2 dollarcent at tayda

[Anonymous No.366322]

>>366321
>>366305
>buyfags

[Anonymous No.366326]

>>366322
enjoy searching half an hour for that one value
enjoy searching days for the problem that a fucked component is causing
enjoy wasting more electric power than the component is worth
enjoy short legs

there is no good reason to recycle 20 year old 1 cent components. i'm ok with saving things like amplifier chips or exotic stuff but come on, a resistor?

[Anonymous No.366332]

>>366326
enjoy being this mad

[Anonymous No.366336]

>>366332
actually yes, i enjoy being mad at people. it gives me a feeling of superiority over others

[Anonymous No.366338]

>>366326
it's good to keep the high wattage resistors around


potentiometers, high current schottkys, xtals, ceramic & metal film caps are all good

gears and electrolytic caps not so much. caps age and gears are generally one application only

[Anonymous No.366339]

>>365755
Resistors and caps in labelled small envelopes in index card drawers.

DIPs cassette cases with antistatic foam glued to the j-cards. These are in cassette drawers.

[Anonymous No.366341]

>>366326
I have place all resistors in 1 bag for a few years. Think of it as a memory game to recognize the values based on colour patterns alone.

It usually take 30 seconds or so to find the values I want. It take a little bit longer if I am seeking a range of values, but that's still not too bad. I have a box of unsorted recycled SMT parts and I can usually find the value within the 4th or 5th 80% of the time try with a multimeter.

Given that there are 48 value for 5% resistors (64 for 1%) and then the 6 decades, you'll need a large case for sorting them out individually. There is always the alternative of getting envelopes/small ziploc bags and hash the parts either by decades or by range of values if you insists.

[Anonymous No.366371]

>>366338
indeed, things to avoid imho:
small resistors and electrolytic capacitors (except for hard to get ones like for HV)

the rest is "ok" to salvage. gears can be nice if you make robots. personally i prefer to keep the more expensive parts like transformers, amplifier chips etc oh and i like to save various connectors, always useful

[Anonymous No.366396]

>resistors are pennies!!!!!

>live in B.F.E.
>try to order 5 resistors for a project
>$0.30
>$16+ in shipping costs

NOPE

>take apart an old VCR and CRT
>got all the parts I need for free

[Anonymous No.366398]

>>366396
i don't know where B.F.E. is but you might want to try tayda which is mentioned higher in the comments. their shipping is even cheaper than my local shop

[Anonymous No.366399]

I picked up 4x of those fishing tackle trays at walmart. $5 a pop.

...might build a dedicated shelf this weekend

[Anonymous No.366401]

>>366396
Buying five of anything is ridiculous. All serious distributors offer free shipping when you order for more than 50-60 bucks at a time. It's easy to fill that by combining orders for a few projects or just building up a library of basic parts.

[Anonymous No.366404]

Does it make sense to order from ebay? I like the resistor packs 100x for $2, usb connectors, random rotary switches.

[Anonymous No.366407]

>>366404
resistors/connectors are fine to get off ebay from china - stick to brand names. stay away from clear knockoffs of stuff like bourns,etc.

i'd avoid unnamed electrolytic caps

[Anonymous No.366409]

>>366401

also, no hobbiest needs hundreds of resistor values. a dozen or so well selected values will do just about anything, so buy 100 or more of each value, get a good discount on volume, and you're fine.

same with ceramic capacitors.

[Anonymous No.366410]

>>366404
be wary of obvious fakes such as the big red "audiophiler" caps.

i buy most parts from tayda and gather the rest from ebay. heavy parts i get locally (think transformers)

[Anonymous No.366411]

>>366407
Also no ICs or anything humidity or static sensitive. You don't know if you're getting what you ordered, where they came from or how they've been stored and handled.

[Anonymous No.366426]

>>366411
Humidity is usually not an issue unless you are reflowing your PCB. If so, you would/should already know about storing/baking your moisture sensitive parts.

Unless your parts already comes in tubes or on reel, the reseller places such as DX would simply be packing the raw parts in small regular ziploc bags without any concerns about ESD or bending leads in handling/during shipping. There is also the issue of fake IC from China, but buying from a reseller that has good refund policy offers some protections.

For recycling part, I see myself doing a lot more with passives than chips. I was at a point where I no longer need to buy any passives parts 10 years ago and that was nice. IC and other high pin count specialized parts are only useful when that same part can be used. They are a bit too specialized these days, so the amount of effort of removing them from PCB do not pay off if they are not being reused. I would only remove them only when I need one. Passives or generic parts with 2 or 3 pins can be harvested easily and tend to see higher reuse.

[Anonymous No.366467]

>>366341
Or you could buy something like this.

[Anonymous No.366478]

>>366401
>>366409
Or just get them free for salvaged parts and call it a day.

[Anonymous No.366552]

ok I don't want to be a nub, but can someone PLEASE tell me what those box things on the top right are? Every time I take apart shit, it's there, and i throw it away.

What the fuck is it.

[Anonymous No.366565]

>>366552

OP's pic, large greyish blocks?
Transformers.

[Anonymous No.366566]

>>366552
please tell me you are trolling, transformers are the most important part to save.

they are expensive, needed in 90% of your projects, heavy so ordering them online is a bitch due to shipping costs and are easy to check if they are functioning

[Anonymous No.366582]

To be honest... I'm the type of person who just chucks everything into a big box.

Yeah, it can take a while before finding shit, but whatever. Most of the time I just go through the box and gather everything I'll be needing for my project.
So basically I'll be going through the entire box once every few months.

Eh, works for me.

[Anonymous No.366614]

>people hating on salvaging even small things like resistors.

Do you guys know what I see when I look at the OP picture?

I see the adult version of a box of LEGOs. I see potential. It is like a new map on a Minecraft server. When you see all the parts laid out for you, you can come up with ideas and uses for them you may never have thought of. If you don't know what a part is and you happen to have that part you can look it up and possible come up with a use for it.

Take this anon >>366552 for instance who does not know those are transformers. The largest of which are from microwaves.

After a bit of research, you can find all sorts of uses for them from high voltage toys to high amp tools like welders, and resistance solderers/brazers or even powerful electromagnets if properly hacked up and used.

Those motors in the box in the back can be made into dozens of things from robots to small generators. You might even be able to make a small coil run/rail gun from those microwave capacitors.

Obviously, I'm picking out some of the cooler things with some of the most expensive parts, but you can make radios, flashlights, sounds amps, alarms, with all that stuff and even Telsa Turbines with HDD platters in the bottom right.

[Anonymous No.366615]

>>366582
>So basically I'll be going through the entire box once every few months.

I think its fun just doing that actually.