On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:35:12 -0600, flipper wrote:

On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:20:20 -0800, John Larkin
wrote:

On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:35:02 -0600, flipper wrote:

On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:51:39 -0500, "Oppie"
wrote:

I was using the smart tweezers to verify a tiny SMT cap in my junk bin.
Guess I was holding it too tight and the cap slipped, became airborne and
was never found.

Which is why you should always grab a few extra.

That, of course, guarantees at least two trips to the parts bin with
quantities failing to sum upon return. You've simply increased the
work minimum, missing quantity distribution, and information entropy
as to where the loss will occur, causing an expansion of the futile
search area from the immediate work space to the entire path back to
the bin, exponentially compounded by 'stuck on shoe' and related
phenomena carrying the part to uncorrelated hinterlands.

Which is why people buy reels.

John