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Re: part of the family.

2003-03-14 by Mike Marsh

I kind-of do the same thing, except I sort them into a partitioned 
plastic box.  Sorting is the second ritual of MOTM.  The first is 
reading the instructions through.  I turn my iron on as I'm sorting, 
and the smell let's me know that I am performing the ritual correctly.

Mike

--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, Jeffrey Pontius <jpont@k...> wrote:
> > i guess i should admit that i have only built the power source.  
> > anyways, i am sure i will be cursing paul eventually when i get 
lost 
> > in a pile of resistors.
> 
> FWIW before any assembly I cut small strips of masking tape, label 
the
> non-sticky side with the resistor values, and then 'stick' the wire 
ends
> of all of the corresponding resistors to the sticky side of the 
tape.
> That way I can concentrate on assembly and not on identifying 
resistors at
> the same time.  (Same for some cap's).
> Jeff

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