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
AHA!! You too, huh. You went out whole hog buying out a store during their going out of biz sale!

Me too. I'd just like to know what use DIP chips are these days. TTL? CMOS? Old school either way.

@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.

@splicer
Ahhhh I see. Well if any of those DIPs are dual timers, you can still have fun with 'em. Enjoy!