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FrankB · 16th Feb 2018, 10:28 pm

I have about 200,000 valves here. (I... was... going to open an online store). Or to put it into perspective: A 28' semi trailer packed front to back, floor to ceiling! + another 50 or more boxes in the garage.

I store them in Archive style boxes and inventory them in the computer in an Open Office Spread Sheet.

(This is a long, boring job now that life priorities changed after Jillian's death.)

I have close to 100 boxes inventoried full of NOS and I store the used, tested ones in bin boxes in the garage on shelves. Many more to go, when time & energy & weather match up.
I make no effort to sort them by type or number when boxing them up.

16th Feb 2018, 10:28 pm	#14
FrankB Heptode Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Olympia, Washington, USA. Posts: 664	Re: Sorting your valves! I have about 200,000 valves here. (I... was... going to open an online store). Or to put it into perspective: A 28' semi trailer packed front to back, floor to ceiling! + another 50 or more boxes in the garage. I store them in Archive style boxes and inventory them in the computer in an Open Office Spread Sheet. (This is a long, boring job now that life priorities changed after Jillian's death.) I have close to 100 boxes inventoried full of NOS and I store the used, tested ones in bin boxes in the garage on shelves. Many more to go, when time & energy & weather match up. I make no effort to sort them by type or number when boxing them up.