Re: Sorting your valves!
Mine is quite small compared to some members' - about 150-200 (99% of them being TV valves). They are all a mix of new and used valves (split roughly down the middle, 50% used, 50% new). I do have an Excel spreadsheet for them (as well as capacitors and resistors) and in there next to each valve type, I have the numbers of how many are "new" and how many "used".
That then tells me where to look, as new ones are stacked up horizontally in their boxes on a shelf. Used ones are just dumped in a large drawer. Of course, such a spreadsheet needs updating every single time a component listed on it is used, otherwise numerical errors can build up quite quickly.
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