Don’t try to remove the leads from the sticky tape, just use your flush cutters 
and snip the leads right at the edge of the tape.  

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...nr4c. bill


> On Jun 15, 2018, at 8:38 PM, <k...@kq8m.com> <k...@kq8m.com> wrote:
> 
> My late Uncle taught that to me.
> 
> 73
> Tim, KQ8M
> k...@kq8m.com
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Ken G Kopp
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2018 20:26
> Cc: Elecraft
> Subject: [Elecraft] OT: Color code memory aid ...
> 
>> From the distant past ...
> 
> Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly ...
> 
> 73!
> 
> K0PP
> 
> ________________________________________
> 
>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2018, 18:13 Fred Jensen <k6...@foothill.net> wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
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