Damn those tiny parts and pc boards!

[Winfield]

One of my past girlfriends used to say in cases like this, "Just let
it go - it knows where it is, so let it find you."

Interestingly enough, it seemed to work, but that could be the same
phenomenon as "It's always in the last place you look".

My first thought was at the bottom of the washing machine tub (maybe
even under the agitator thing), but if you send your shirts out, it's
probably gone. )-;

Good Luck!
Rich

Yep. I used to go for the pressed-shirt look, continuing for
five years or so after I left industry and went to the Rowland
Institute, but now I go for outdoor shirts with the rumpled
look. But did you see my post yesterday - I found it lodged
between my car's passenger seat and the seat-belt clip.

BTW, did you check your email? You can also reach me at my
home email, w|nf|eldh'[email protected], fix as needed.

 

[Clifford Heath]

I'm thinking to put the small boards in a mailing
envelope, and write the contents on the outside.

Zip-lock plastic bags are better, as you can see inside
them, and nothing can fall out. Use a permanent marker pen.

 

[Rich Grise]

Yep. I used to go for the pressed-shirt look, continuing for
five years or so after I left industry and went to the Rowland
Institute, but now I go for outdoor shirts with the rumpled
look. But did you see my post yesterday - I found it lodged
between my car's passenger seat and the seat-belt clip.

Yeah, I saw it downthread - I seem to post impulsively sometimes.

BTW, did you check your email? You can also reach me at my
home email, w|nf|eldh'[email protected], fix as needed.

Yeah, just checked it now. I'll get back to you on that.

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

Zip-lock plastic bags are better, as you can see inside
them, and nothing can fall out. Use a permanent marker pen.

What's wrong with duct tape?


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prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

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Central Florida

 

[John Larkin]

LOL!

Have you ever noticed that, if you're about to sneeze, you can press
on the end of your nose and supress it? I figure that's a survival
mechanism. There must have been lots of situations where sneezing
would reveal your presence and get you killed, or scare the game away
or something.

I gotta tell ya... life isn't fair. And SMD is a tacit way to hammer
that point home.

When I was a young kid, with great eyesight and steady hands, I worked
on vacuum tube circuits. You could just about climb into one of those
chassis.

As I got older, and my eyesight got worse, parts got smaller.

Now, with 60 just around the corner, I need glasses and a magnifier
for any fine work at all. And now, just about all the interesting
parts I can find are SMD.

With an ocean of black coffee having been shifted down my gullet, my
hands aren't anywhere near as steady as they once were. No problem
holding the soldering iron in my right hand, it's the tweezers in the
left hand shaking this way and that that's the problem.

If life was fair, I would have started with SMD parts when I was a
young kid, and worked my way up to vacuum tube circuits now.

I gotta tell ya... life isn't fair.

Relax. The parts are getting so small, nobody can see them. And the
solder joints are now *under* the parts.

John

 

[Richard H.]

Damn all those miniature parts and the tiny PCBs
that carry them. The parts are so small a sneeze
will send them off, never to be found again. And
now I've learned that the boards are so small and
thin they can easily disappear without a trace.

Yeah, I've done that - dropped a populated board from my desk to the
floor, and I couldn't find it to save my life! I later found it in the
cuff of my slacks.

 

[Rich Grise]

Yeah, I've done that - dropped a populated board from my desk to the
floor, and I couldn't find it to save my life! I later found it in the
cuff of my slacks.

I don't think I even OWN a pair of pants with cuffs.

What century are you from? ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Richard H.]

I don't think I even OWN a pair of pants with cuffs.

What century are you from? ;-)

Yeah, I know... I'm stuck in an era gone by. I still wear braces too
(i.e., suspenders).

 

[John Larkin]

Yeah, I've done that - dropped a populated board from my desk to the
floor, and I couldn't find it to save my life! I later found it in the
cuff of my slacks.

Cuffs? Slacks?

I've even heard that people used to wear shirts with things called
"collars."

John

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

Cuffs? Slacks?

I've even heard that people used to wear shirts with things called
"collars."

Shirts? No, collars belong on Cats & Dogs! ;-)


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prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

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Central Florida

 

[Don Lancaster]

Cuffs? Slacks?

I've even heard that people used to wear shirts with things called
"collars."

John

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[Rich Grise]

Cuffs? Slacks?

I've even heard that people used to wear shirts with things called
"collars."

I want to special-order some white tee-shirts with a pocket on the
sleeve, so that we can set up a booth at the swap meet/county fair
to sell shirts with iron-on transfers AND a pocket.

Or does someone know a source of white tee-shirts with sleeve pockets?

Cheers!
Rich

 

[John Larkin]

Nice. I guess I think like your QC lady. ;-)

Maybe so, but having met both of you, she's a lot cuter.

John

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

Maybe so, but having met both of you, she's a lot cuter.

John

Wouldn't take much.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

 

[Winfield]

I want to special-order some white tee-shirts with a pocket on
the sleeve, so that we can set up a booth at the swap meet/county
fair to sell shirts with iron-on transfers AND a pocket.

Or does someone know a source of white tee-shirts with sleeve pockets?

My PCB engineer went to a ham flea market last weekend,
and reported one guy selling tee-shirts printed with,

"My wife says if I use this transmitter one more time,
she's going to leave me... Over."