Nice helmet Fezzler - and yes Jkstull beat me to it.
These 550/4 carburetors live attached to a solid chunk of aluminum we call "the rack". Add a latin prefix, and you've got four carb bodies that are no longer fixed to said rack.
As for organizing your hoard of disassembled bits n bobs. Keeping mechanisms in one piece is preferred. But in my case, I have completely stripped two sets of A series carbs down to the bodies and tucked the core components into these nifty little hardware boxes I get at Ace for $14/set. One big box, one small box...so far I've filled 8 of these containers with carb pieces, top end pieces, engine hardware, and a few odds and ends of spares as I needed to hide them.
I have shamelessly begun the process of cannibalizing cb550 stuff for my own....future needs. The one bank of carburetors was in pretty sad shape, rust and corrosion on what should have been shiny parts. And somehow, the rack itself was bent on the one set (pictured below). Assumably damaged in the same crash that broke the engines lower case mount. So apart they came to be cleaned, sorted, and eventually refurbished into one bank of really tits carburetors....eventually.
This sort of megalomania is really an individual preference. I bagged the smallest, most lost prone pieces, and labeled the bags before tucking them into a compartment. Some of the throttle linkages remained together, because they had even more lose-able parts inside. I did what made sense to me. And hopefully did a well enough job that, should i die or be put in a position that i become a "previous owner" myself - the next guy isn't gonna be posting about the idiot who put a cb550 into a tackle box...or ten.
