[sdiy] Making kits of parts

[Tim Ressel]

We just started making kits. We do the kitchen table marathon method. 

The plastic cups are a great idea!  I'll try that next.

Tim Ressel
Circuit Abbey
503-750-9331
timr at circuitabbey.com




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From: Declare Update <declareupdate at gmail.com>
To: David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> 
Cc: synthdiy diy <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl> 
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 5:48 AM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Making kits of parts


We often do this at Bleep Labs, with a grid of plastic drinking cups. Usually 50-100 at time. First part goes in every cup, then second, etc, and when you're done the cups pour into bags super easy. It get's really fast once you get a groove going. 

Chris

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> On Sep 24, 2014, at 4:03 AM, David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> I've made and sold vintage-style computer kits[1] for a few years.  Last year I looked into having Mouser put parts into individual parts thus saving me the labor of sitting at the kitchen table sorting hundreds of tiny parts into individual bags.  The price?  Apply the volume prices for what I was buying, then add a dollar per kit.  Fast forward to now.  I want some more kits, so I went through my BOM and swapped in cheaper parts for ones that inexplicably became much more expensive.  When I asked for the kitting to be done, I was offered NO volume discount and each kit cost around $4 more per kit.  Naturally I was pissed.  I was even more pissed to be told by Mouser that the deal I got last time was a mistake.
> 
> I'm in the process of copying my BOM from Mouser over to Digikey.  Digikey doesn't stock everything I need.  I'll have to buy some stuff seperately and stuff them in the bags myself.  I can handle that.  I don't know if Digikey will play nice with me because as I type, Digikey's website is broken.  Just type something in the search box and watch it complain.
> 
> So, here's a question.  For those of you who have offered kits of synthesizery stuff: how did you go about putting together the parts bags? Did you do the kitchen table marathon or did you get the supplier to make the kits for you?
> 
> [1] http://661.org/p112/
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