Fun stuff as always. You're 100% right about getting the kits until you need a bunch of one item. I will say that one trick I've learned is that if I have a lit of 0805 resistors and I buy 100 10k ones separately. I use a red sharpie or something on the kit 10k ones to remind me that I have them in bulk somewhere else. I do that on everything. Like chips, I put a * if I have a hundred of something in bulk storage somewhere so I don't reorder. SMD parts are such a pain to organize.
while I was continuing to go through parts yesterday to organize them into the trays instead of all the various random plastic bins, I found some bulk smd 1K and 10 K and 100 nF and a bunch of SOT 23 transistors and op amps and logic chips I forgot all about. At least I’ve gotten more organized in the past year gradually adding parts to the part trays that I bought the year before that, where are the park trays set around for a year until I started putting things in them. Now if only I could remember where the LabelMaker is. I should have labelled it.
nice, watch out you don't start loosing components with that vac. My flume extractor has in the past been know to suck up a bit more than flumes from the bench. 🙂
I will especially have to pay attention when vacuuming the floor under the workbench because I’m used to knowing I’ll have a chance for a visual inspection in case something worth more than 75 cents dropped but now it’s a whole different game.
@@GadgetReboot if I've been using the flume extractor and i can't find the missing components on the bench or on the carpet. I check the filter, the buggers just sit on it just below where the hose is. We all know that when you drop a SMD component on to the floor it hyperspace jumps on the first bounce. 🙂
Fun stuff as always. You're 100% right about getting the kits until you need a bunch of one item. I will say that one trick I've learned is that if I have a lit of 0805 resistors and I buy 100 10k ones separately. I use a red sharpie or something on the kit 10k ones to remind me that I have them in bulk somewhere else. I do that on everything. Like chips, I put a * if I have a hundred of something in bulk storage somewhere so I don't reorder. SMD parts are such a pain to organize.
while I was continuing to go through parts yesterday to organize them into the trays instead of all the various random plastic bins, I found some bulk smd 1K and 10 K and 100 nF and a bunch of SOT 23 transistors and op amps and logic chips I forgot all about.
At least I’ve gotten more organized in the past year gradually adding parts to the part trays that I bought the year before that, where are the park trays set around for a year until I started putting things in them.
Now if only I could remember where the LabelMaker is. I should have labelled it.
Nice! What would be fantastic is if you mentioned how much you paid for each item. The links are very helpful but their prices change a lot over time
What he paid is largely irrelevant. He often buys at Auction at silly low prices. The price that YOU pay when YOU buy is what should matter to you.
nice, watch out you don't start loosing components with that vac.
My flume extractor has in the past been know to suck up a bit more than flumes from the bench. 🙂
I will especially have to pay attention when vacuuming the floor under the workbench because I’m used to knowing I’ll have a chance for a visual inspection in case something worth more than 75 cents dropped but now it’s a whole different game.
@@GadgetReboot if I've been using the flume extractor and i can't find the missing components on the bench or on the carpet.
I check the filter, the buggers just sit on it just below where the hose is.
We all know that when you drop a SMD component on to the floor it hyperspace jumps on the first bounce. 🙂
Those must have been some fairly high ohmage resistors to withstand being sucked up! 😆
they connected themselves all in series to resist the force.