[sdiy] <sob>Too honest for my own good...

[Scott Bernardi]

Where do you get metal film resistors for 2 cents or less? In what quantities?

Jim Patchell wrote:

>     The company is 5S'ing inventory.  Even though it is 2002, a lot of the
> stuff that was scrapped last year, still hasn't made it to the dumpster.
> Yesterday, I salvaged about 10 pounds (sorry, I don't know what that is in
> KGrams) of metal film resistors.  Trouble was, they are all mixed together.
> New metal film resistors are only 2 cents (or less) each, so it probably wasn't
> even worth the effort to snag them, but, I just can't let junk like that get
> tossed.  And, there have been several mistakes made.  I found several items
> that should not have been tossed.
>
>     -Jim
>
> David Halliday wrote:
>
> > And the question now is, who _else_ at your company is into building synths
> > and tossed these gems with the intent of dumpster-diving them out 'fore you
> > saw them...
> >
> > -> Glen wrote:
> > ->
> > -> >
> > -> > Well, it *might* have been better to have kept your
> > -> company from using those
> > -> > 150 parts, especially if they had been simply dumped "naked" into a
> > -> > plastic-lined trash can. Think of the potentially high
> > -> static electricity those
> > -> > chips might have been subjected to. Can those chips really
> > -> be trusted to
> > -> > perform reliably in some mission-critical application, now
> > -> that they have been
> > -> > "mishandled" by leaving them in the trash?
> > ->
> > ->     Nope, still in the original tubes, inside vacum sealed
> > -> shielded bags.  Can't
> > -> believe how I smiled when I saw them...
> > ->
> > -> >

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Scott Bernardi
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