[Dprglist] my own tanners

[James LeRoy]

I run a web based inventory system for all my parts and keep them in 
numbered boxes.  A little OCD, but easy to find it when I need it. It's 
an open source app called PartKeeper.

On 5/7/20 4:39 PM, David Anderson via DPRGlist wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> My father passed away in March and Mom, 93,  has been living with us 
> since then.  Their house is only a couple of blocks away and I go by 
> and check on it from time to time, pick up things she needs, water the 
> plants and so on.
>
> So today I went by and was looking for some 20 pin dip sockets. Dad 
> was a Ham, since the 1940s (WK5K) and I found a closet in his radio 
> room full of parts, all carefully organized and labeled in matching 
> shoe boxes.  I took a picture:
>
> http://www.geology.smu.edu/dpa-www/jpeg/dads_ham_closet.jpg
>
> Lots of electronic parts and hardware.  A whole box of metal 
> standoffs, another of nylon standoffs, lots of caps and resistors, a 
> separate box of 1%.  And a box of DIP sockets, including 20 pins.  My 
> own personal Tanners!
>
> I of course have a lot of parts myself gathered over the years, but 
> not well organized.  So finding a particular part really means going 
> through everything.   Which I do, and have done, repeatedly.   I 
> probably even have some 20 pin DIPS somewhere. Same thing with our 
> storage shed.  It's just always been easier to run down to the 
> hardware store than to dig through the shed.
>
> So, any of this sound familiar?  Or is it just me... :)
>
> cheers,
> dpa
>
>
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