MOTM

> I have a block of wood with two 4" pieces of stainless steel wire
> (welding rod) set in at an angle about 1.5 inches apart. I clip the
> ohmmeter leads to these, hold the body of the resistor in my fingers and
> run the leads against the wires.  Takes a few seconds and eliminates
> problems.

Oh, I like that. That's much better than fiddling with test leads. Thanks!

I do the same routine of sorting the resistors first and sticking them in a
block of Styrofoam, grouped by value. Besides making the assembly go more
smoothly, this also helps me identify the hard-to-read values before I put
any of them into the PCB, thus reducing the chances of putting something in
the wrong location.

Incidentally, if anyone here remembers the old days in which I was
maintaining a diary about building my modular, I've made an attempt to start
doing that again. The latest entry is a quick summary of what I've built
since the previous entry (which was, um, about two years ago) and this
morning I put up some photos of a few MOTM conversions. The web site's at
http://www.studionebula.com

--Adam