Re: gEDA-user: How small a part can you hand place?

[John Griessen <john_g@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I bought old stock reels made from 1998 to 2004 on ebay
to get my R and C design range covered pretty well.
the prices wound up in the $0.003 to $0.006 range for R and C in 0805 with a few 
larger and smaller than 0805, some larger Capacitance packages, good 
dielectrics.  Of course few are lead free.
There's a trace of 60/40 solder plating on their ends.   Kester recommends 
soldering such old parts with the water based
"needs cleaning in 130 degree F water" solder paste too, so it's
got a process step price there to add to the purchase price.  For some 
prototyping, and for getting a low price hobby kit together, they might be right.

Happy to send you some.

John G

DJ Delorie wrote:
> With Olimex's standard board, scored and snapped, you get 100 16mm by
> 10mm boards for 25 cents each. 

> The tricky part is figuring out the cheapest way of getting the
> components for playing with, and not losing too much money making 100
> kits without knowing if you'll sell them all ;-)
>
> I've gotten it down to 1-3c per 0805..0201,


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