Don't you hate it when...

smccusker · August 31, 2005, 03:53:34 AM

When you're sourcing components for a build, you accedently get the wrong value resistors (3omh9 instead of 3m9), so you go into town the next day with the express purpose of buying the correct type (and some stereo input jacks while you're at it), come home, continue building, and then realise you bought the wrong value capacitors as well :x

so now i have to wait until tomorow to continue

aron · August 31, 2005, 04:13:26 AM

Oh yeah.... :cry:

Connoisseur of Distortion · August 31, 2005, 06:06:30 AM

what's really bad is getting your stuff in order, only to realize that you have 6 inches of solder left :x

Bernardduur · August 31, 2005, 06:24:59 AM

Ha, I live next door to the radioshack so I can get my "wrong" parts very easy.

JimRayden · August 31, 2005, 09:02:55 AM

Quote from: Connoisseur of Distortionwhat's really bad is getting your stuff in order, only to realize that you have 6 inches of solder left :x

Amen, man.

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Jimbo

Paul Perry (Frostwave) · August 31, 2005, 10:12:38 AM

Quote from: Connoisseur of Distortionwhat's really bad is getting your stuff in order, only to realize that you have 6 inches of solder left :x

yeah, using scavanged parts is bad enough, but trying to use 'found' solder blobs is pretty rough :oops:

Marcos - Munky · August 31, 2005, 10:31:34 AM

Yeah, it sucks. The store near me is in a city about 14 miles from my house and, when this happens, I need to wait until I have more things to do in that city. You won't travel 14 miles just to buy 5 or 10 resistors (the minimum pack that they sell here)

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petemoore · August 31, 2005, 10:38:44 AM

That's when I go hunting 'old board' caps. They don't seem to come in the really small values much like 47pf-470pf...
Yupp I hate that enough to say 'screw it' I'm scavenging Noww...
What I hate is when I'm doing a board for a couple hours, then can't find it for another hour :? , then find the darn thing snagged my shirtcuff, and took a ride to the seat cushion right behinnd my butt!!! :shock:

Bill Bergman · August 31, 2005, 11:16:53 AM

Here's another pisser.....No matter how parts you've stocked up on there are always a few parts you don't have for a new project. So you scavenge thru a mountain of circuit boards with no avail.

Harry · August 31, 2005, 10:02:08 PM

Quoteyeah, using scavanged parts is bad enough, but trying to use 'found' solder blobs is pretty rough

Done that before, no fun.

smccusker · September 01, 2005, 07:12:55 AM

And when, after all the trouble you go to, it doesnt work.
Now i have to tear my hair out trying to find out why (although i suspect there is a short, or something stupid i've done in the offboard wiring)

Joe Hart · September 01, 2005, 12:24:28 PM

Keep an eye out on trash day. I have a big box of old radio and VCR boards (once you have pulled them out of the housing, they don't take up that much room), so when I need one resistor or cap of a certain value, I can usually find it lurking somewhere.
-Joe Hart

Paul Marossy · September 01, 2005, 04:20:32 PM

I hate it when I drive to the other side of town mainly to buy one specific part and realize when I get home that I didn't get it because I was getting a bunch of other things I might need!

Roberto · September 01, 2005, 05:39:07 PM

Quoteand then realise you bought the wrong value capacitors as well Mad

Don't worry and try the wrong capacitor

. It is said that the ProCo RAT was intended to be some kind of filter but the designer placed a wrong resistor and he obtained that distorted sound (I think that I had read it in the Art Thompson book)

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