[DanBC]

The company I ised to work for would sometimes buy components from RS. They'd supply them in strips of 10, 50, or 100.

The pick and place machine needed blank strip of about ten components (just for lead-in on the cassete).

Transfering components from one tape to another was really annoying. And one of the bosses just did not understand that the fractions of a penny saved were obliterated by time wasted moving components over.

And until you've had to do something like that you can't really understand the benefit of $60 Swedish tweezers.

[madengr]

Yep #00 Swiss tweezers. Nothing like them. The feel of the #00 is just right.