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Originally Posted by MadMax
Get some fishing tackle boxes. The 1.5'x 1' flat ones made by Plano with about 30 compartments are ideal for storing GBB and AEG bits. When I had better discipline I used to assign one box to one gun project. Plano boxes cost about $3 each so they're cheap for that kind of thing.
If you work on several projects at the same time, it's easy to confuse parts. Repair customers might not notice that their mechbox screws are being traded around, but it sucks when you get aftermarket components mixed up and you have to try to figure out who owns what.
Also, write down your customers contact info on a slip of paper and stick it in a free compartment. It's easy to forget details about the job or customer when you have to wait for replacement parts to arrive from HK. Having the job chit in the parts box also saves you from having to figure out which email/pm pertains to which armalite out of 3 partially disassembled crapalites in your shop 3 wks after you disassembled them and ordered parts. Throw in the confusion of messages sent through PM, email, phone identified by callsign or real name and you get into an snarl of identity-message nonsense.
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This is about the best sound advice anyone can give a person doing any tpe of repair work. Anyone reading this shoudl re-read the above and follow it to a letter as it's soo easy to get stuff mixed up and is a pain to sort out again.