18 Dec
2011
18 Dec
'11
11:52 a.m.
On 12/14/2011 07:39 PM, Mouse wrote:
Absolutely not.
I wouldn't, though, call my parts stock a
"junk box"; that conjures up
images of a container with an unsorted mishmash of salvaged parts all
dumped in it together, and most of my parts are not salvaged scrap and
are not all jumbled together.
I don't think Tony meant any insult here. Anybody who has been doing electronics stuff for more than about a week typically
has such a box
(in my case it's dozens of large plastic crates), and people who are
more serious about it, myself include, ALSO have "parts stocks" as you
describe.
Indeed. There is a third class of 'stock' which consists of surplus
componets. Often new, and high quality, but in some sense non-stnadard.
And these might be called 'junk box' too.
For example, a packet of new 1k 1% resistors is 'parts stock', some
salveged body-tip-sport resistors probably go in the 'junk box', but an
assortment of 0.1% resistors obtaineed as surplus components is possibly
also called 'junk box' for all they're very good components.
-tony