On Monday 27 June 2005 13:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would suspect that the vast majority of "missing" parts, are in reality > "unable to find" parts. Given the size and number of parts in the kits, > there's a lot of stuff to paw through when building a module.
It's probably tempting to skip a thorough checking the inventory and get on with building; I was tempted. As I described in a previous posting, I identified every part by doing an inventory and placed parts in a drawer system and marked the corresponding drawer in the parts list. The time taken doing this is probably recovered by knowing where everything is and having the parts previously identified - avoiding build time confusion by similar looking components. Then checking the components on retrieving them from the drawers as required in the building order and laying them out in order on the workbench is a second check. Finally, checking again before soldering is a third check. So, I tripled checked every part and didn't make even one wrong component mistake building a K2. During the inventory, I noticed the six fibre washers were missing and had them delivered in time for when I needed them. If I had just built the K2 with no inventory checking, I would have been delayed by not being able to mount the power output transistors. Ian, K2 #4962 -- _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
