Awhile back Art and I used several of the parts cabinets and create E24 series resistor labels for the entire series (1 ohm - 10 megaohm). Many of these labeled drawers are empty, including some common and useful values. For instance, last week I went looking for a couple of 100K resistors and there were none. Indeed none of the slots around them had any resistors. So there is plenty of opportunity to fill out our resistor inventory.
What is really needed though is to sort and organize the large pile of parts that exist in that room, Again Art and I worked on it awhile back with the transistors. We found many unsuable custom in house part numbers with no data sheets that we simply tossed in recycling box, but any transistor we could find a data sheet was placed in a labeled bin. The same kind of thing is needed for the IC’s, capacitors, etc… And much tossing in recycling is also needed.
@artg_dms is going to schedule some ‘organization’ days sometime soon…