A fun thread- I wish I had the space (and organizational skills) some of you have!
Not sure if I can think of something that hasn't been mentioned. I guess I really do have a bucket (ok, a jar) for "found money" that I keep separate from everything else.
I tend to over-sort- these items would probably all go in sirscrapsalot's "OMG ITS GOLD bucket™!"
SIM cards
printer cartridge chips
gold-dotted mylar from printer cartridges
super-flat ribbon wire
gold-legged transistors
Some larger items...
HD actuator arms +/- controller cards
CD/DVD "eyeballs" (what am I going to *do* with these things?).
I keep Cu-Ni HD screws, jack screws and brass and aluminum standoff screws in separate pill-bottles (no real reason, just do)- they could certainly be dumped elsewhere (though people apparently buy computer jack screws in bulk on eBay). I have another bucket of HD spindle motors (again, can probably be lumped elsewhere) and for no reason whatsoever I keep the little steel pickup guide-rails from CD/DVD drives separated in their own little jar- some are stainless, most aren't. I have larger ones from printers as well (I saw a pile of them poking out on the table in one of erewen's photos) that I keep around, too.
I also have sub-buckets for low-grade foreign coins, but again those could be tossed in with already mentioned items...
cheers,
tbg
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