Just something I found while looking for a solution.
I have a lot of both mechanical parts (screws, threaded inserts, nuts, bolts, standoffs, etc, you get the picture) and electronic components. Nuts and bolts are actually f**king expensive, ridiculously so, and the number of times I've bought a pack of something only to lose it a week later.
I've been looking for a decent storage rack to store not just things like IC'sn, but the aforementioned screws and other hardware. Storage cabinets are again normally stupidly priced and generally pretty bloody ugly. You can get metal ones, but they start to look pretty shabby quite quickly.
Having just had a couple of delivery of screws in plastic cases, where the different sizes are in compartments with a flimsy removable barrier that if someday drops the parcel, will fall over and then everything gets mixed up, after an hour of sorting them out I decided to look again to find something better.
There is obviously a Chinese manufacturer who is flooding the market with a range of plastic component storage boxes, I personally think they look pretty good and they're made of plastic, you can pick them up on eBay pretty cheaply, 18 quid for come configurations up to about 33 quid, if you hunt through the sellers you'll find them under all sorts of brand names, but they're all the same containers. I picked up a 60 drawer version for 22 quid, and Homebase currently have a 39 drawer version (with 2 different sizes of compartments) which is 15 quid in store.
Just thought it might be of interest to a few folks.
I have a lot of both mechanical parts (screws, threaded inserts, nuts, bolts, standoffs, etc, you get the picture) and electronic components. Nuts and bolts are actually f**king expensive, ridiculously so, and the number of times I've bought a pack of something only to lose it a week later.
I've been looking for a decent storage rack to store not just things like IC'sn, but the aforementioned screws and other hardware. Storage cabinets are again normally stupidly priced and generally pretty bloody ugly. You can get metal ones, but they start to look pretty shabby quite quickly.
Having just had a couple of delivery of screws in plastic cases, where the different sizes are in compartments with a flimsy removable barrier that if someday drops the parcel, will fall over and then everything gets mixed up, after an hour of sorting them out I decided to look again to find something better.
There is obviously a Chinese manufacturer who is flooding the market with a range of plastic component storage boxes, I personally think they look pretty good and they're made of plastic, you can pick them up on eBay pretty cheaply, 18 quid for come configurations up to about 33 quid, if you hunt through the sellers you'll find them under all sorts of brand names, but they're all the same containers. I picked up a 60 drawer version for 22 quid, and Homebase currently have a 39 drawer version (with 2 different sizes of compartments) which is 15 quid in store.
Just thought it might be of interest to a few folks.
