XPost: sci.electronics.components, sci.electronics.design   
   From: pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net   
      
   On 07/11/2016 08:59 PM, krw@attt.bizz wrote:   
   > On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 17:35:34 -0700, John Larkin   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 20:31:36 -0400, krw@attt.bizz wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 10:55:22 -0400, Ralph Mowery   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> In article <0001HW.1D33507700174B6A10BAE03CF@news.eternal-   
   >>>> september.org>, not@home.cow says...   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> On 10 Jul 2016, John Larkin writ:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> I always pull a few extra of the smaller surface-mount parts. It's   
   >>>>>> dependable that I'll lose a few before I get them soldered down.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Required SMD tool: vacuum cleaner (hoover to you Empire boys) with empty   
   bag.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I am glad the resistors and capacitors are only a few cents.  If I need   
   >>>> only one or several, I always get atleast 10 of them.  Don't usually   
   >>>> loose any if I do.  If I don't or the part is several dollars or more   
   >>>> and I get just the required ammount I usually drop one and spend lots of   
   >>>> time looking for it.   
   >>>   
   >>> I keep spares of most of the values I use in anti-static bags.  I   
   >>> never put fewer than a hundred in them.  If one leaves the playing   
   >>> field, I don't spend a second on it.  I don't want it back because   
   >>> I'll probably get the one I lost last year, instead.  I don't want   
   >>> that one.   
   >>   
   >> It's worse now that many resistors have goofy alphanumeric codes.   
   >   
   > Or nothing.   
   >   
      
   I've got a pair of Smart Tweezers that pretty much fixes that problem.   
      
   $400 last time I checked, but worth it.   
      
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