W3FPR - Don Wilhelm wrote:
I do arrange all the capacitors, diodes, resistors and
other long leaded components in value order in the holes along the edges of
a corrugated cardboard tray (old Heathkit method) so each one is in a known
place where I can lay my hands on it when it is needed. I cut the USPS
shipping box in half along the narrow sides to produce 2 parts trays, your
method may be different, but it is quite helpful to know where to find any
particular part quickly.
While I had a rather prolonged parts inventory phase (started the
inventory, discovered a part was missing halfway through, put project on
the shelf for four years), I still think the parts inventory is very
valuable.
I used green plastic school cafeteria trays (the kind with three
smallish compartments and one large one) for holding various parts
during construction. These could be stacked on each other (the "wrong"
way) to conserve workbench space.
And for some reason (totally unexplainable by the amount of breadboard
work I do: none) I happened to have a "QT socket" type breadboard on the
bench. This turns out to be an excellent way to sort a bunch of
components that all look the same (like the Whizzio Quality Capacitor
Assortment from the RF board) into cute little orderly rows.
Just plugging one lead (or several) from each component into the socket,
and they'll stand up nicely so you can hold the whole mess under the
illuminated magnifier to find a particular value and pluck it out for
use.
Did I mention the presentation I did at Phil-Mont Mobile Radio Club
about K2s? You can view the slides at
http://www.phil-mont.org/k3xs_k2/slide1.html
or see the whole thing as a single page at
http://www.phil-mont.org/k3xs_k2/index.html
The illustrations are stolen shamelessly from the Elecraft site (and a
few other places, like PA3CEVs wonderful construction photos) so if
anybody complains that I'm outside the scope of "fair use" I'll have to
take it down. But it was fun to do.
Oh, yeah...that part that was missing during inventory "phase 1"? I
found it stuck to an envelope flap later on...
73 de Maggie K3XS K2 S/N 1641
P.S. I did operate briefly during FD as K3XS 1E EPA...logged four SSB
contacts: K5FD 3A WTX, N0GF 3A ND and AA0AA 1A Missouri. W3NWA 4A EPA
was just a few miles away.
--
-/___. _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of progress /
/(, /| /| http://voicenet.com/~maggie SCWCD/ is to preserve order/
---/ / | / | _ _ _` _ AOPA 925383/ amid change and to /
--/ ) / |/ |_(_(_(_/_(_/__(__(/_ K3XS / preserve change amid/
-/ (_/ '.-/ .-/ARRL 39280 /order."-A.N.Whitehead/
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