[Elecraft] Dumb mistakes I have made

Thu Jan 24 00:52:00 2002

I have had the misfortune of putting in caps with the values facing other
components, making it impossible to find their value during a check of the
circuit.  'When in doubt, face it out'.

Oh, then there was the time I said 'I DO'.....but that's for another forum
;)

Jim,
N2SUB
K2 #1998

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Subject: [Elecraft] Dumb mistakes I have made

> Thought it might be interesting, humorous and educational to share a few
of
> the bone head mistakes we have made building our K1/K2s.  I'll go first if
> you promise not to laugh (too hard).
>
> The instructions say inventory the parts.  So, when I got my K1, that is
just
> what I did.
>
> First, I pulled all the resistors out of the tape and cleaned the residue
off
> the leads. (Bonehead, just cut the leads.)
>
> Then I put all the resistors in order by value so they would be easy to
find.
>  Took forever, very frustrating and I couldn't figure out why they weren't
in
> value order on the belt to begin with.  (Much later, I discovered they
were
> in the order as needed for assembly.)
>
> Can you top that?  BTW K1 #470 works just fine in spite of my making it a
lot
> harder than it needed to be.
>
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