[Elecraft] Why should you inventory?

[Jason Hissong]

I am well into phase 3 of my K2 build (this is my third time building
one) and this is the phase where you start seeing if you installed a
wrong capacitor somewhere, or you are missing some.  As I was happily
checking off caps as I was installing them, I noticed I am missing a
couple.  Or am I?

Dummy me, I didn't properly do an inventory (which I have done on all
previous kits I have built) so I don't know if I misplaced a part...
am I missing a part from the kit... or did I put a wrong cap
somewhere.  I just assumed all was there.  So I had to take the time
to track down all of the 43 capacitors which is somewhat time
consuming.

After about 15 minutes of searching, and a couple sips of brandy, it
appears that I am missing one (or misplaced it).  Luckily, I have
spares in my junkbox so I just used one of the spares.  This has
happened twice already.

Note to self: do an inventory on your next kit!

73,
Jason N8XE