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

[patchell]

    Mouser Electronics  http://www.mouser.com

    Part number 271-<value>, In 200's, they are $0.02 each.  Nice resistors too.  If
you get them in 1000 quantity, the price goes down to $0.012 each.  I get 100K and
10K resistors 1000 at a time.  I eat them like candy (yuck!).


Scott Bernardi wrote:

> 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...
> > > ->
> > > -> >
>
> --
> Scott Bernardi
> sbernardi at attbi.com

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