I’ve completed the first phase of sorting components that was all mixed up in a plastic tub. Almost all the electrolytic caps are now in drawers. Resistors are the biggest pain: they are sorted into piles by multiplier: 1, 10, 100, 1000, and… everything else. Next I will sort each pile by their actual value and put them away in my resistors book.
It took me a beat to realize that the five-band resistors go in the pile with four-band resistors of a different color. #electronics
@splicer
Ahhhh I see. Well if any of those DIPs are dual timers, you can still have fun with 'em. Enjoy!
@ClaraListensprechen4 No 556s, just 555s.
@splicer
Well that's a bummer. If those are 74-some number, you can run it by me and I might know off the top of my head. :)
@ClaraListensprechen4 I didn’t immediately recognize the numbers on most of the DIP ICs (except there were a bunch of 555s which I’ve already put away). Looking them up will be its own project.
I still tinker on solderless breadboards and use them in intro electronics workshops. It’s satisfying and tactile. So I’m happy to add these to my arsenal.
@ClaraListensprechen4 Close, but the components are not from a store closeout. I have a relative who passed recently. He was a high school technology teacher until he retired about ten years ago. Cleaning out his house I found a number of kits and parts and tools and books.
One of the best things I found is a comb-bound book with safety rules and instructions for a variety of tools they used in his class, which he wrote for his students. I can repurpose some of it in the workshops I lead.