[Elecraft] Elecraft Kit suggestion

[Ian Stirling G4ICV, AB2GR]

On Monday 27 June 2005 13:03, john.brewer at us.schneider-electric.com wrote:

> I would suspect that the vast majority of "missing" parts, are in reality
> "unable to find" parts.   Given the size and number of parts in the kits,
> there's a lot of stuff to paw through when building a module.

  It's probably tempting to skip a thorough checking
the inventory and get on with building; I was tempted.
  As I described in a previous posting, I identified
every part by doing an inventory and placed parts in
a drawer system and marked the corresponding drawer
in the parts list.  The time taken doing this is
probably recovered by knowing where everything is
and having the parts previously identified - avoiding
build time confusion by similar looking components.
  Then checking the components on retrieving them from
the drawers as required in the building order and
laying them out in order on the workbench is a second
check. Finally, checking again before soldering is
a third check. So, I tripled checked every part and
didn't make even one wrong component mistake building
a K2.
  During the inventory, I noticed the six fibre
washers were missing and had them delivered in time
for when I needed them. If I had just built the K2
with no inventory checking, I would have been delayed
by not being able to mount the power output transistors.

Ian, K2 #4962
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