> 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 ...
I did that for my K1. When I discovered missing parts and asked about it here, I was scolded by several reflector members so I redoubled my efforts to find them. I found some and not others. The folks at Elecraft were quick to replace the ones that were truly lost. While building my 2-band filter board I found another missing part but a stop at the local electronics supply shop solved that for about 20 cents and didn't cut into my build time at all. I'm about half-way through the K2. I didn't bother with an inventory. I just put all the resistors in one bin, capacitors in another, etc. I separated the hardware a little bit to make it easier to find the different screw sizes. When I need a cap I look for it in the cap bin. Generally you're doing several at a time so I dump them all out to make them easier to dig through. This is working out just fine and requires less space for bins and drawers and eliminated the time taken to completely inventory every part. I figure if I come up with a part that's truly missing I can either go get it from a local supplier or ask Elecraft to send it to me, depending on how big a hurry I'm in. Once the Field Day deadline came and went, that took a lot of heat off so if it takes a few days to get a replacement part it's no big deal. After operating Field Day with an Icom 706 and its wonderful 500 Hz CW filter, I've determined not to work another FD without my K2. (In all fairness, we had access to two Collins KWM-380's that would have been fine but both failed in the same way, ironically after having been thoroughly checked out by a highly qualified technician.) So NEXT Field Day is my absolute drop dead date, though I'm sure I'll be done long before that. :-) Craig NZ0R K1 #1966 K2 #4941 _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net 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
