From: pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net   
      
   Cursitor Doom wrote:   
   > I thought I had everything covered when I acquired a huge spare parts   
   > inventory from some chap who was emigrating a while ago. However,   
   > despite now being the proud owner of tens of thousands of caps,   
   > resistors, transistors, diodes, ICs etc etc etc., I can never seem to   
   > find a suitable part to replace one that's blown in whatever item of   
   > equipment it happens to be I'm fixing. There invariably seems to be   
   > some critical aspect in spec that the replacement part can't match   
   > rendering it entirely unsuitable. Or I'm sure I have an exact   
   > replacement *somewhere* in the stock, but it would take forever to   
   > find it so it's easier just to order a new one. Time and time again   
   > this kind of thing happens. For these reasons and others of a similar   
   > nature, I think I wasted my time (and a huge amount of space) by   
   > acquiring all these components and would have been better off never   
   > have been offered them in the first place.   
   > Anyone else have any experiences like this?   
   >   
      
   It all depends on organization.  How many SKUs are we talking about?   
      
   Cheers   
      
   Phil Hobbs   
      
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