From: liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid   
      
   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.   
      
   If you need the spares for repair only, a lot of modern equipment   
   doesn't have room for improvisation with replacement parts (perhaps made   
   up from several components).  That means your collection is not   
   particularly useful.   
      
   If you are designing one-offs, a collection of parts like that can be a   
   huge benefit as long as you are able to adapt your design to use parts   
   which you already have.  It saves tracking down an exact part, ordering   
   it - waiting for it to be delivered (or finding it is out of stock and   
   on back-order) - fitting it - finding it isn't quite what you needed -   
   ordering another replacement - waiting for that to arrive - discovering   
   that it changes the operating conditions so that another component needs   
   changing - ordering that  - waiting for that to arrive....... etc   
      
      
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