I have a lot of plexiglas (acryl) leftovers, so I decided to
play around with them. For the beginning, I built this
organizer, which appeared to be very useful. Now I don't have to
waist a lot of time trying to find my 15K 1206 resistor, or
BAS85 diode... and tens of other components, when I have to
solder them on the PCB. There is not much to talk, everything is
clear and straitforward.
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SMD resistors are packed in
thick paper tapes, which can not be bended easily, so
they need larger containers than other components, which
are packed mainly in PE tapes. My decision was 96mm
diameter for resistors, and 63mm diameter for other
components.
You can also see the vacuum picking tool,
which I made of dispensing syringe and the thickest
needle that I could find. I also used the aquarium air
pump, with the suction unit turned in the opposite way,
so that it maces vacuum instead of blowing the air
outside. This process is described at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJWUUK1s_G0 |
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| To tighten all plexiglass
parts, I used M4 threaded rods. There is also a 1.6mm
rod which holds all tapes in place and helps unsticking
the transparent tape which covers the components. At the
top there is a special place for a paper, which can be
used for marking. |
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This is the Corel Draw drawing
for acryl laser cutting. I had a lot of 5mm leftovers,
so as most SMD components are packed in 8mm wide tapes,
I needed two layers of acryl for every tape (red parts
on the drawing). The barrier layers are made of 2mm
acryl (the blue ones). Border layers (green) are 5mm
thick again, and there are also the final borders
(yellow), glued to the previous borders and used to
"round up" the whole construction and to protect the
screw nuts.
You can download the CDR drawing
here:
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