Re: gEDA-user: Free Dog meetings at MIT starting this September!

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>]

On Aug 24, 2004, at 11:36 AM, Karel Kulhavý wrote:
> > > But the SMT capacitors we are having here in retail stored don't have
> > > any
> > > numbers printed on them. Have you also encountered that problem?
> >   Leave them in the package until you use them.  With through-hole
> > components, I use little trays and get out all the parts I'll need
> > before I start soldering.  But with SMT components, I leave them in
> > their little paper strips (the way they come when you buy more than 
> > two
> > or three of them...I buy SMT resistors a thousand at a time because of
> Yes but sometimes you buy just one ore two.
  Hmm, well I don't. :)  Even if I only need one or two, I buy a 
thousand, because a thousand costs three dollars, and then I have them 
in stock for the next project. :-)

       -Dave

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