[Elecraft] K2 Build: Requesting Tips and Tricks

[Fred Jensen]

OK, cool!  I'd like to see it work.  While I have a lot of respect for 
design folk, and especially those who design the super easy websites to 
use where you find what you need, do it, leave, and your coffee is still 
hot, the Mech E's who can visualize in 3D with motion astound me.  I 
understand the multiple reels of feedstock.  It's the "remove the parts 
from the tape" part that I find hard, that tape was really sticky. [:-)

Every time I've asked my wife to tell me the colors on a resistor, even 
after I tell her, "They're all supposed to be preschool colors," I still 
get, "Well, sort of reddish-orange ... might be a little pink too."

73,

Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County

On 6/15/2018 4:43 PM, GaryK9GS wrote:
> Hi Fred,
> It's called a sequencer.  Individual reels of tape and reel axial parts are loaded in the sequencer.  So there would be an entire reel of 10k resistors, a separate reel of 100k, separate reel of diodes, etc.
> The sequencer then removes the parts from the tape and creates a new tape with the parts in the proper order and count.  The sequencer my company used to have would also measure the value of the part and reject it if it wasn't in the tolerance window.
> I hope that all makes sense...
> Surface mount is oh so much easier.  We have 9 surface mount lines and rarely use the axial through hole inserter these days.
>