Things that help you decide when to dispose a component or part

For engineers who have workshops in their homes or interested in DIY projects, the following is a survey to decide which component you have to dispose and which you have to keep and store.

This is a copy from an Excel sheet implementing this survey. After finishing this survey, you will be able to decide if you have to dispose the part or not:

Question	Answer	Considered answer	Point
Do you think you can use this part later?		Yes	0
Do you think this part may inspire you in your design? Car designers for example may be inspired by an old electric iron		Yes	0
Do you do lots of DIY projects?		Yes	0
Does this part contain toxic materials?		No	0
Does this part have flammable or explosive gases inside?		No	0
Is this part or component is a standard part		No	0
Do you have a CAD drawing for it?		No	0
Do you plan to draw a CAD model for it?		Yes	0
Is this part difficult to draw in CAD program using the simple measurement tools?		Yes	0
Do you have enough descriptive pictures for this part?		No	0
Do you the price of this part or component?		No	0
Did you get this part or component out from an expensive device, machine, …?		Yes	0
Is its material unique, rare, expensive, difficult to get easily?		Yes	0
Does this part have some unique physical or chemical properties? e.g. High hardness, unique color, low curie temperature, very high thermal conductivity, high transmitivity for certain wave length,… etc.?		Yes	0
Do you plan to make some destructive testing on it, so you need as many pieces as you can collect?		Yes	0
Did you finish all required tests on this component and documented them?		No	0
Is it rust-resistant?		Yes	0
Is this part available in your country? (or have you to buy it from other country)		No	0
Do you know its both commercial and scientific names, so you can search later for it on internet?		No	0
Does it have any label, name plate, model, serial, bar-cade, QR code, …?		No
Do you know its material? If no, so you have to keep it till you know its material		No	0
Is this part an extruded profile, so you can cut it and keep a small sample for the profile section		Yes	0
Will this part age with time, so it will loose its critical properties?		No	0
Is this part old, so it is no more produced nowadays?		Yes	0
Does this part have a small size?		Yes	0
Does this part have a regular shape so it can be stacked if you have many of it?		Yes	0
Is this part easy to clean?		Yes	0
Is this part easy to make in local workshops?		No	0
Is this part cheap to make in local workshops?		No
Do one or more of your friends have this part?		No	0
Do one or more of your friends know what is this part?		No	0
Did you produced this part, so you want to keep it for memory?		Yes	0
Do you know the full specifications of this part?		No	0
Do you know the contact information of the supplier or manufacturer producing this part? Do you have any chance to know?		No	0
Do you know how did you get or find this part?		No	0
Do you remember when did you get this part?		No	0
Does this part have a very nice or visual-pleasant cosmetic shape?		Yes	0
Is this part manufactured by a non-traditional manufacturing technique like 3d printing, CNC machining, ….?		Yes	0
Is this part is a fully-functional-prototype?		Yes	0
Is this part a mock-up?		Yes	0
Was this component a part in assembly? Does it have a potential to be assembled into new assembly design?		Yes	0
Is this part manufactured in your country?		No	0
Is this part manufactured in mass-production?		No	0
Is this part or component sortable or can it be stored in place that you can reach easily?		Yes	0
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Total percentage	#DIV/0!