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Re: Making precision PCBs with Sharpie and 3D printer

From Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net>
Newsgroups sci.electronics.components, sci.electronics.design, alt.engineering.electrical
Subject Re: Making precision PCBs with Sharpie and 3D printer
Date 2016-07-12 09:24 -0400
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References (5 earlier) <0001HW.1D33507700174B6A10BAE03CF@news.eternal-september.org> <MPG.31ed7d5d9abea5e9896e8@news.east.earthlink.net> <ude8ob152pe5m93fm2bi9ghb6uerrsb3kp@4ax.com> <cpe8obtl0789vs0spg6qlksoqcte8k1gjo@4ax.com> <67g8ob55frj8p1c21qe0ceqgponvn4e950@4ax.com>

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On 07/11/2016 08:59 PM, krw@attt.bizz wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 17:35:34 -0700, John Larkin
> <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 20:31:36 -0400, krw@attt.bizz wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 10:55:22 -0400, Ralph Mowery
>>> <rmowery28146@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In article <0001HW.1D33507700174B6A10BAE03CF@news.eternal-
>>>> september.org>, not@home.cow says...
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10 Jul 2016, John Larkin writ:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I always pull a few extra of the smaller surface-mount parts. It's
>>>>>> dependable that I'll lose a few before I get them soldered down.
>>>>>
>>>>> Required SMD tool: vacuum cleaner (hoover to you Empire boys) with empty bag.
>>>>
>>>> I am glad the resistors and capacitors are only a few cents.  If I need
>>>> only one or several, I always get atleast 10 of them.  Don't usually
>>>> loose any if I do.  If I don't or the part is several dollars or more
>>>> and I get just the required ammount I usually drop one and spend lots of
>>>> time looking for it.
>>>
>>> I keep spares of most of the values I use in anti-static bags.  I
>>> never put fewer than a hundred in them.  If one leaves the playing
>>> field, I don't spend a second on it.  I don't want it back because
>>> I'll probably get the one I lost last year, instead.  I don't want
>>> that one.
>>
>> It's worse now that many resistors have goofy alphanumeric codes.
>
> Or nothing.
>

I've got a pair of Smart Tweezers that pretty much fixes that problem.

$400 last time I checked, but worth it.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs
-- 
Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics

160 North State Road #203
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510

hobbs at electrooptical dot net
http://electrooptical.net

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Making precision PCBs with Sharpie and 3D printer DaveC <not@home.cow> - 2016-07-07 15:18 -0700
  Re: Making precision PCBs with Sharpie and 3D printer Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-07-10 21:54 +1000
    Re: Making precision PCBs with Sharpie and 3D printer John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2016-07-10 14:43 -0700
      Re: Making precision PCBs with Sharpie and 3D printer krw@attt.bizz - 2016-07-10 18:05 -0400
        Re: Making precision PCBs with Sharpie and 3D printer John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2016-07-10 18:59 -0700
          Re: Making precision PCBs with Sharpie and 3D printer DaveC <not@home.cow> - 2016-07-10 20:56 -0700
            Re: Making precision PCBs with Sharpie and 3D printer John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2016-07-10 22:07 -0700
            Re: Making precision PCBs with Sharpie and 3D printer Ralph Mowery <rmowery28146@earthlink.net> - 2016-07-11 10:55 -0400
              Re: Making precision PCBs with Sharpie and 3D printer John Doe <always.look@message.header> - 2016-07-11 15:28 +0000
                Re: Making precision PCBs with Sharpie and 3D printer John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2016-07-11 08:36 -0700
                Re: Making precision PCBs with Sharpie and 3D printer Ralph Mowery <rmowery28146@earthlink.net> - 2016-07-11 12:07 -0400
              Re: Making precision PCBs with Sharpie and 3D printer krw@attt.bizz - 2016-07-11 20:31 -0400
                Re: Making precision PCBs with Sharpie and 3D printer John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2016-07-11 17:35 -0700
                Re: Making precision PCBs with Sharpie and 3D printer krw@attt.bizz - 2016-07-11 20:59 -0400
                Re: Making precision PCBs with Sharpie and 3D printer Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> - 2016-07-12 09:24 -0400
                Re: Making precision PCBs with Sharpie and 3D printer krw@attt.bizz - 2016-07-12 20:05 -0400
                Re: Making precision PCBs with Sharpie and 3D printer Spehro Pefhany <speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> - 2016-08-27 01:06 -0400
                Re: Making precision PCBs with Sharpie and 3D printer Ralph Mowery <rmowery28146@earthlink.net> - 2016-07-11 23:32 -0400
              Re: Making precision PCBs with Sharpie and 3D printer Reinhardt Behm <rbehm@hushmail.com> - 2016-07-12 10:13 +0800
                Re: Making precision PCBs with Sharpie and 3D printer sms <scharf.steven@geemail.com> - 2016-07-12 10:09 -0700
      Re: Making precision PCBs with Sharpie and 3D printer sms <scharf.steven@geemail.com> - 2016-07-12 10:19 -0700
        Re: Making precision PCBs with Sharpie and 3D printer Jon Elson <jmelson@wustl.edu> - 2016-07-12 13:57 -0500
        Re: Making precision PCBs with Sharpie and 3D printer John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2016-07-12 12:12 -0700
          Re: Making precision PCBs with Sharpie and 3D printer krw@attt.bizz - 2016-07-12 20:08 -0400

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