ian field wrote:

"Eeyore" wrote
ian field wrote:

If its going in the bin once removed, that hardly matters.

I heard a story (likely true) of an MD who went round the factory after
'time', pulling components back out of the bin and replacing them on the
bench.

The stupidest suits tend to float to the top!

He also bought cheap thousands of TL072s that been salt-water contamined on a
sea voyage IIRC.

You can imagine what that did to the returns rate !

Graham