Storage for components? Try pill bottles

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Here's a clever use for all those old pill bottles, store electronic parts in them! Wackyvorlon writes... - "This is a method my friend and I have started using for storing electronics components. We have a bunch of old pill bottles kicking around, so we label them and use them for storage. We've found them most convenient." - Link.

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Posted by: davenosebball on November 4, 2006 at 8:20 AM

That's a great idea!

I had never considered storing small objects in containers designed to hold other different small objects!

I will be submitting an article detailing how I store larger objects in boxes originally used to store other different larger objects.

:/


Posted by: kaden on November 4, 2006 at 9:38 AM

You can also look forward to my article on storing multiple small containers in a larger container originally intended to store multiple small containers other than the multiple small containers being stored.

A patent for this technique is pending.


Posted by: durin on November 4, 2006 at 9:56 AM

and I'll submit an article on replying to posts and basically saying the same thing as the previous posts.


Posted by: doctor.allen on November 4, 2006 at 5:10 PM

I wonder if you can go to a pharmacy and ask for any old pill bottles they have lying around.

Well, of course, you could do that. I wonder if they would actually give them to you.


Posted by: bananaz on November 4, 2006 at 6:00 PM

i bought a cheap tacklebox at K-Mart and that works wonders.


Posted by: mc@uga.edu on November 4, 2006 at 7:21 PM

Remember that plastic is not good for semiconductors because of the static electricity. I wouldn't use pill bottles for ICs or FETs, maybe not even ordinary transistors and diodes. Resistors, capacitors, and hardware are fine.


Posted by: mc@uga.edu on November 4, 2006 at 7:22 PM

Remember that plastic is not good for semiconductors because of the static electricity. I wouldn't use pill bottles for ICs or FETs, maybe not even ordinary transistors and diodes. Resistors, capacitors, and hardware are fine.


Posted by: PTHS student on December 17, 2007 at 12:23 PM

yea so then what did u do with the pills them selves.....we are doing a project to find ways to recycle old never used pharmaceutical drugs and so far we have walgreens and wal-mart....trying to get satoris and kmart to agree to...but who knows lets hope it works...just writing to see what u guys thinks about it?


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