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hey guys, I didn't want to start a whole new thread for a stupid question, so I will ask it here.

the place I work gave me reels and reels of parts that they didn't want, and I want to take them off the reels an put them into little baggies. my question is: is any old baggie ok? regular tiny zipper bags should work for the resistors and capacitors, but what about some of the ICs I have? should I be concerned enough with ESD that I buy special bags? or should I just use whatever?

p.s. anyone want to buy 2000 5v regulators? (just kidding, I am not selling)
 
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hey guys, I didn't want to start a whole new thread for a stupid question, so I will ask it here.

the place I work gave me reels and reels of parts that they didn't want, and I want to take them off the reels an put them into little baggies. my question is: is any old baggie ok? regular tiny zipper bags should work for the resistors and capacitors, but what about some of the ICs I have? should I be concerned enough with ESD that I buy special bags? or should I just use whatever?

p.s. anyone want to buy 2000 5v regulators? (just kidding, I am not selling)
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well I would go on the safe side and get special foil-type bags to put all the electronics in.

By the way do you happen to have 10 2~5V voltage regulators? I would buy.
 
what about those pink bags you sometimes get stuff in? are they ESD safe?

uhh what does "2~5v" mean?

I have like 2 reels of 5v regulators and 1 reel of 7v regulator. thats it for regs. when I get them all inventoried I can show you what all I have, if you want. I plan to make a google spreadsheet with part descriptions, part numbers, package, quantity, ect, so I can "share" it with all my engineering friends. that way they can use my parts if they make a mistake in ordering or whatever.
 
cato said:
what about those pink bags you sometimes get stuff in? are they ESD safe?

uhh what does "2~5v" mean?

I have like 2 reels of 5v regulators and 1 reel of 7v regulator. thats it for regs. when I get them all inventoried I can show you what all I have, if you want. I plan to make a google spreadsheet with part descriptions, part numbers, package, quantity, ect, so I can "share" it all my engineering friends. that way they can use my parts if they make a mistake in ordering or whatever.
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thats so humanitarian. How much does 1 reel of 5v regulators go for?
 
I don't know. its about 1000 parts per reel, about $0.25 to $0.50 per part. so we are talking a couple hundred bucks.
 
if you want like 10 of them, I will send them to you free if you pay shipping. I have a couple packages, I know 1 or 2 of my reels are SOT223 package, and the other is something slightly bigger, but still surface mount. also, I think the 7v are SOT223. I haven't looked at them real close yet.
 
cato said:
hey guys, I didn't want to start a whole new thread for a stupid question, so I will ask it here.

the place I work gave me reels and reels of parts that they didn't want, and I want to take them off the reels an put them into little baggies. my question is: is any old baggie ok? regular tiny zipper bags should work for the resistors and capacitors, but what about some of the ICs I have? should I be concerned enough with ESD that I buy special bags? or should I just use whatever?

p.s. anyone want to buy 2000 5v regulators? (just kidding, I am not selling)
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I would vote for using antistatic envelopes. Electronic Goldmine has them for as low as $5.95 for 100. I don't think that the little piece off the reel can disperse a static charge quite as well as you need for it to.

http://www.goldmine-elec-products.com/prodinfo.asp?number=G15285
 
I kind of wanted to get the clear dissipative bags, so I can see inside and write on them easier but I guess I can get some labels.

man, it felt like Christmas when they told me to go through 4 boxes of component, save 100 off each reel and keep the rest (at least 1000 parts per reel). when I found the first (of 3) reels of 5v regulators I could hardly contain myself.

I wish I could inventory everything tonight, but I have to go to Wisconsin tomorrow for work =/
 
well, I am most excited by the 3.5 reels of 5v regs(about 5000 parts in all!) . I just found some 9v regs (about 400). damn, I have about 15,000 33pF caps! I have like 1500 4.7uF, 2.2uF and 10uf tant caps, and so on. I have about 40 reels in all. most of the reels are half empty, but half empty usually means over 1000.
 
cato said:
well, I am most excited by the 3.5 reels of 5v regs(about 5000 parts in all!) . I just found some 9v regs (about 400). damn, I have about 15,000 33pF caps! I have like 1500 4.7uF, 2.2uF and 10uf tant caps, and so on. I have about 40 reels in all. most of the reels are half empty, but half empty usually means over 1000.
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...umm why did you order this humongous insanity?:bugeye:
 
dude,
cato said:
the place I work gave me reels and reels of parts that they didn't want, and I want to take them off the reels an put them into little baggies.
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cato said:
man, it felt like Christmas when they told me to go through 4 boxes of component, save 100 off each reel and keep the rest (at least 1000 parts per reel). when I found the first (of 3) reels of 5v regulators I could hardly contain myself.
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do you read my posts?
 
its not part of the project. sorry, I didn't think it would turn into anything more than a post or 2, so I didn't want to start a new thread. heh, I just found a microcontroller in one of the boxes that is as old as I am =], talk about obsolete.
 
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