"Phil Hobbs" wrote in message ...

Ian Field wrote:

"josephkk" wrote in message
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:11:52 +0100, "Ian Field"
wrote:



"Jeff Liebermann" wrote in message
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:44:45 +0100, "Ian Field"
wrote:

***Hot air (electric paint stripper) gun and a stiff paintbush - perfect
for
harvesting SMD parts.

Yep, but I don't do it that way. With SMD, the problem is identifying
the parts after they've been removed. I usually just want the active
components anyway.

***One thing I particularly go after is the larger multilayer SMD chip
capacitors, surprisingly large values in surprisingly small package. Also
the larger discrete semiconductors, the TO251/252 fit less veroboard
space
than a TO92.

Ian, lose the micro**** live garbage and use a real news reader. It is
similar to wearing appropriate clothes.

***I've just installed Xananews which has halted with "pipeline out of
sequence" error and refuses to load any messages in the group I've
subscribed so far.

***Also installed Gravity - loads messages and indents correctly but the
UI
is an utter shambles!!!


Hey, Ian, what's with the three asterisks? It makes you look like an
Allison and a half. (*)

### You have trouble reading!!!?