[TriEmbed] advice about selling reels of passive SMDs

[Scott Hall]

Find someone with a pick-and-place machine in the area, like this one at Adafruit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCdN_bsCR2Q&feature=em-lss

;-)

On 08/18/2017 09:40 AM, Pete Soper via TriEmbed wrote:
> I'm looking for folks with experience with (or watching others) selling random
> reels of surface mount parts. Scrap Exchange donated some boxes of reels to
> Splatspace and we cannot possibly use them for any but the most unlikely of
> projects. I want to propose to the board that the parts get sold, with a thank
> you payment back to Scrap, but I don't know if this is hair-brained or likely
> to be straight forward, or anything in between. I think Scrap has spent a year
> or two wishing they could sell them (mile long necklace, anybody?) They're in
> cardboard boxes that aren't charred, so I don't think they've been outside
> their storage temp limits <grin>. But of course the humidity has been off the
> wall ('cept one reel of caps is in a desiccant bag).
>
> The material is mostly resistors (mostly 0603), but some caps (including some
> big, higher voltage aluminum electrolytics), a few rectifiers and inductors,
> resistor networks and maybe other parts. Many have sources only knowable to
> those who can interpret the wad of numbers on the reels, others are obvious
> like well labeled AVX caps. I SWAG (silly, wild-ass guess) a million
> resistors, some tens of thousands of capacitors, maybe a reel or two of the
> others.
>
> What say you, people of vast collective experience?
>
> -Pete
>

-- 
Scott G. Hall
Raleigh, NC, USA
ScottGHall1 at GMail.Com

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