[Elecraft] To inventory or not:

[Bruce Rattray]

I can understand the "urge" not to inventory and "get on with it"...I've
had that urge many times and I had it with my K2, which is nearing
completion...

BUT, I am one of those people who, even though I do the inventory and will
always do the inventory, I can still and usually do goof and wind up short
of a 100% job....then, I count on the experience of doing the actual
"build" to help me work it all out right, the right parts in the right
spot, in the end...

=2E..I guess it's the old story; whatever works for you....

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On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, "D.R. Weiss KI=D8RP" wrote:

> I'd like to represent the opposing point of view.  For me, the inventoryi=
ng
> part was time well spent.  I saw three great advantages to doing the
> inventory --
>
> 1.  I was not familiar with what all the parts looked like, so the
> inventory fixed that.
> 2.  When I got midway through a build and couldn't find a part, one thing=
 I
> could be sure of was that the part was somewhere on my workbench.
> 3.  The inventory allowed me to note component values that differed from
> the instructions.  This was very valuable in the middle of a build when I
> was looking for one thing but had a slightly different thing available.
>
> So to anyone questioning the value of the inventory step, I'd have to say
> think twice before skipping it.
>
> Dave Weiss KI0RP
>
> At 12:48 PM 3/26/02 -0700, Ferguson, Kevin wrote:
>
> >My name is Kevin, and I don't count parts.
> >
> >I built a K2 and all available options without inventorying anything.
>
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