DIYbanter - View Single Post - How do they paint the stripes on resistors, bumble bee caps, etc?

Michael A. Terrell

wrote:

One thing I do know, is that most small electronic parts with wire
leads, leave the factory in the form of ladders. Meaning that 100 or
1000, or any other number of them are one long strip being held
together by 2 strips of paper around the leads, to form what looks
like a ladder.

Then you don't know anything.

So, if you worked at Zenith assembling radios, there would be rolls of
those ladders for every value of resistor, capacitor, etc, needed, at
each work station.

The proceed is called Tape + Reel, or Ammo Pac, but they are for
automated manufacturing. Leaded components are becoming rare, in
manufacturing, since Surface mount far exceeds leaded components, and
have for decades. Hand assembly doesn't use taped components, since it
takes time to remove the tape before a component is installed. Zenith
used odd tube sockets and terminal strips that often used the full
length of the component's leads. The tape's adhesive would cause cold
solder joints.

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