tube storage?

[ohohyodafarted]

I use the small cardboard box and ziplock baggie method. I use small cardboard boxes 6"x6"x4". You can buy stock corregated boxes or parts bins at most any supplier of cardboard boxes. They are inexpensive and can serve you to organize all sorts of different parts.

I cut the top box flaps off. I label the front of the boxes with a sharpie felt tip pen with the tube numbers. I organize by "voltage" and then by the "first letter or two". Then within each box the tubes are grouped in labeled ziplock bags of all one tube number. The boxes are organized on shelving by ascending tube numbers writen on the front of each box. Some boxes will have only 1 tube type in it, some boxes will have as many as 6 to 10 tube types in it depending on how many of a given tube number I have collected.

This method works well for me and I can always go right to the tube I need. I have always been real anal about keeping things well organized.

IF you ever go to a flee market and find commercial steel drawer parts cabinets, they are very worth while investments. I probably have cabinets with a couple hundred drawers for organizing all my spare parts. But then I also have been acquiring spare parts for about 40 years so I have a lot of stuff that needs organizing.