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What are your electronics related quirks?
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BreakingOhmsLaw:
I will start:

- when i start a repair, i look for the manufacturing date or the youngest date code. I then order Alexa to "play music from <insert year>". Of course this greatly increases the repair success rate. It sets you in the same state of mind of whomever designed and assembled it, you see? What are you going to do, listen to Skrillex while repairing an HP5248? Stop it! You are scaring the nixie tubes!

- i keep the solder sponge wet at all times, even when i know I'm leaving for a business trip or holiday. It's gotta be wet.

- I am terrible at remembering numbers. So when i print a schematic, i add names to all active devices. Sometimes this causes involuntary humour: Nancy crowbars Bob if he tresspasses.

- i have a lifetime supply of leaded solder wire. Just in case it ever goes out of production.

What are yours? Fess up!
ChristofferB:
I pilfer previous projects for parts for new projects, leaving me with very few completed projects. The second they're done they're in risk of being recycled.

This is why I don't use IC sockets. it's too easy just to borrow that cool chip. "I'll get a new one I swear it's just for a quick test" ..yeah right.. I should start potting my projects once they're done to ensure their survival.

twospoons:
Hoarding.
rsjsouza:
I find extremely relaxing to desolder old boards scavenging for parts. I always tell myself to stop desoldering through hole general purpose diodes, transistors and resistoes, but I end up cleaning up the board entirely.

Things from ancient times when parts were expensive and some very hard to find. It stuck with me over all these years.
NiHaoMike:
I memorized the color patterns of many common resistor values since middle school, didn't think too much about it until college when someone asked me how I was so fast identifying the resistors. But now I have started to see more and more SMD resistors with really cryptic markings like "68X", I wonder if there's a trick to remembering them...

When I buy cheap parts, I often buy way more than I need because the overall cost doesn't go up by much. I have a box containing hundreds of connectors, leftovers from 100 count bags minus the few that I have used so far...

--- Quote from: rsjsouza on May 18, 2020, 01:03:53 am ---I find extremely relaxing to desolder old boards scavenging for parts. I always tell myself to stop desoldering through hole general purpose diodes, transistors and resistoes, but I end up cleaning up the board entirely.

Things from ancient times when parts were expensive and some very hard to find. It stuck with me over all these years.

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I sometimes do that as well with single sided boards, since often the parts can be removed using pliers by pushing the leads, perfect to do when casually watching videos. Double sided boards generally need actual desoldering, in which case I usually get just the big, valuable stuff.
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