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.
I wonder if the new breed of the smart tweezers has a lighter touch? Nice
tool though for the most part.

flipper Inscribed thus:

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.

I'm convinced they reach relativistic spin velocities and vanish into
a miniature wormhole.

Some do eventually emerge from the other end, though, after time
dilation into the future.

I wonder if the new breed of the smart tweezers has a lighter touch?
Nice tool though for the most part.

I've a dinning room carpet a bit like that... Peas and peanuts just
vanish, not to be found until they rattle up the vacuum cleaner hose
sometime in the future.

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"Oppie" wrote in message
...
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.
I wonder if the new breed of the smart tweezers has a lighter touch? Nice
tool though for the most part.


My Peak LCR meter has a tweezer attachment - also good for launching SMDs at
faster than the eye can see velocities.

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.


I'm convinced they reach relativistic spin velocities and vanish into
a miniature wormhole.

Some do eventually emerge from the other end, though, after time
dilation into the future.

Try dropping an 0603 resistor a bunch of times. 85% of the time it
will land wrongside up.

John

"Paul Hovnanian P.E." wrote:

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.
I wonder if the new breed of the smart tweezers has a lighter touch? Nice
tool though for the most part.

I think you have to adjust the nut on the end of the handle to eliminate
this problem.


Which nut? ;-)

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off scientist!!!

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
"Paul Hovnanian P.E." wrote:
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.
I wonder if the new breed of the smart tweezers has a lighter touch? Nice
tool though for the most part.
I think you have to adjust the nut on the end of the handle to eliminate
this problem.


Which nut? ;-)

Tsssk... The one holding it??? naaa..

Sjouke Burry wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
"Paul Hovnanian P.E." wrote:
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.
I wonder if the new breed of the smart tweezers has a lighter touch? Nice
tool though for the most part.
I think you have to adjust the nut on the end of the handle to eliminate
this problem.


Which nut? ;-)

Tsssk... The one holding it??? naaa..


We need to be sure, though.


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off scientist!!!

Sjouke Burry wrote:
Michael A. Terrell wrote:
"Paul Hovnanian P.E." wrote:
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.
I wonder if the new breed of the smart tweezers has a lighter touch?
Nice tool though for the most part.
I think you have to adjust the nut on the end of the handle to eliminate
this problem.

Which nut? ;-)

Tsssk... The one holding it??? naaa..

Kinda like that part that causes most car crashes - the loose nut behind the
wheel? ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

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

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.

Dude, is that medicinal or home-grown? %-}

Cheers!
Rich

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

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.
I wonder if the new breed of the smart tweezers has a lighter touch? Nice
tool though for the most part.
Work inside a plastic bag. I use gallon size ziplocks.
John Ferrell W8CCW

John Ferrell 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.
I wonder if the new breed of the smart tweezers has a lighter touch? Nice
tool though for the most part.
Work inside a plastic bag. I use gallon size ziplocks.
John Ferrell W8CCW


No good for static sensitive parts.


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"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
...

John Ferrell 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.
I wonder if the new breed of the smart tweezers has a lighter touch?
Nice
tool though for the most part.
Work inside a plastic bag. I use gallon size ziplocks.
John Ferrell W8CCW


No good for static sensitive parts.


Boil a kettle.

Ian Field wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
...

John Ferrell 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.
I wonder if the new breed of the smart tweezers has a lighter touch?
Nice
tool though for the most part.
Work inside a plastic bag. I use gallon size ziplocks.
John Ferrell W8CCW


No good for static sensitive parts.

Boil a kettle.


Or just learn to do things right in the first place. Plastic bags
and boiling ketles don't cut it in business.


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off scientist!!!

Ian Field wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
...

John Ferrell 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.
I wonder if the new breed of the smart tweezers has a lighter touch?
Nice
tool though for the most part.
Work inside a plastic bag. I use gallon size ziplocks.
John Ferrell W8CCW


No good for static sensitive parts.

Boil a kettle.


Or just learn to do things right in the first place. Plastic bags
and boiling ketles don't cut it in business.


--
For the last time: I am not a mad scientist! I m just a very ticked
off scientist!!!

For the last time: I am not a mad scientist! I m just a very ticked
off scientist!!!


Pinky and the Brain.

For the last time: I am not a mad scientist! I m just a very ticked
off scientist!!!


Pinky and the Brain.

Ian Field wrote:

For the last time: I am not a mad scientist! I m just a very ticked
off scientist!!!

Pinky and the Brain.


No Pinky here!


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For the last time: I am not a mad scientist! I m just a very ticked
off scientist!!!

Ian Field wrote:

For the last time: I am not a mad scientist! I m just a very ticked
off scientist!!!

Pinky and the Brain.


No Pinky here!


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"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
m...

No Pinky here!

Sorry for your loss

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
m...

No Pinky here!

Sorry for your loss

"Paul Hovnanian P.E." wrote in message
...
Ian Field wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
...

John Ferrell 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.
I wonder if the new breed of the smart tweezers has a lighter touch?
Nice
tool though for the most part.
Work inside a plastic bag. I use gallon size ziplocks.
John Ferrell W8CCW


No good for static sensitive parts.

Boil a kettle.

And be sure to chant:

Eye of newt, toe of frog,
wool of bat, and natural log.

That's for a pan of stew.

"Paul Hovnanian P.E." wrote in message
...
Ian Field wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
...

John Ferrell 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.
I wonder if the new breed of the smart tweezers has a lighter touch?
Nice
tool though for the most part.
Work inside a plastic bag. I use gallon size ziplocks.
John Ferrell W8CCW


No good for static sensitive parts.

Boil a kettle.

And be sure to chant:

Eye of newt, toe of frog,
wool of bat, and natural log.

That's for a pan of stew.

Oppie wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
m...

No Pinky here!

Sorry for your loss


Yours too. ;-)


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off scientist!!!

On 11/17/2010 11:51 AM, 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.
I wonder if the new breed of the smart tweezers has a lighter touch?
Nice tool though for the most part.

Micromark sells tweezers that hold odd shaped parts, dunno if you
couldn't modify some to suit your needs.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

On 11/18/2010 4:27 AM, Rich Grise wrote:
Sjouke Burry wrote:
Michael A. Terrell wrote:
"Paul Hovnanian P.E." wrote:
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.
I wonder if the new breed of the smart tweezers has a lighter touch?
Nice tool though for the most part.
I think you have to adjust the nut on the end of the handle to eliminate
this problem.

Which nut? ;-)

Tsssk... The one holding it??? naaa..

Kinda like that part that causes most car crashes - the loose nut behind the
wheel? ;-)

Cheers!
Rich


In aircraft its a short between the headphones.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

On 11/19/2010 11:00 AM, flipper wrote:
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 02:29:59 -0800, Rich Grise
wrote:

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

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.

Dude, is that medicinal or home-grown? %-}

Cheers!
Rich

Murphy's been know to drive people to drink and drugs but I just...
well, I call it colorful language. Often LOUD, too.

Also known as applying the cuss wrench.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

On 11/18/2010 8:10 PM, Paul Hovnanian P.E. wrote:
Ian Field wrote:

"Michael A. wrote in message
...

John Ferrell wrote:

On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:51:39 -0500,
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.
I wonder if the new breed of the smart tweezers has a lighter touch?
Nice
tool though for the most part.
Work inside a plastic bag. I use gallon size ziplocks.
John Ferrell W8CCW


No good for static sensitive parts.

Boil a kettle.

And be sure to chant:

Eye of newt, toe of frog,
wool of bat, and natural log.

(the engineer's spell, of course)



Stirred gently with a wood slide rule?

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

Dan wrote:
On 11/18/2010 8:10 PM, Paul Hovnanian P.E. wrote:
Ian Field wrote:
"Michael A. wrote in message
John Ferrell wrote:
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:51:39 -0500,

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.
I wonder if the new breed of the smart tweezers has a lighter touch?
Nice
tool though for the most part.
Work inside a plastic bag. I use gallon size ziplocks.

No good for static sensitive parts.

Boil a kettle.

And be sure to chant:

Eye of newt, toe of frog,
wool of bat, and natural log.

(the engineer's spell, of course)

Stirred gently with a wood slide rule?

Did you hear about the constipated economist?

He worked it out with a pencil.

Cheers!
Rich

Rich Grise wrote:

Dan wrote:
On 11/18/2010 8:10 PM, Paul Hovnanian P.E. wrote:
Ian Field wrote:
"Michael A. wrote in message
John Ferrell wrote:
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:51:39 -0500,

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.
I wonder if the new breed of the smart tweezers has a lighter touch?
Nice
tool though for the most part.
Work inside a plastic bag. I use gallon size ziplocks.

No good for static sensitive parts.

Boil a kettle.

And be sure to chant:

Eye of newt, toe of frog,
wool of bat, and natural log.

(the engineer's spell, of course)

Stirred gently with a wood slide rule?

Did you hear about the constipated economist?

He worked it out with a pencil.


Did you hear about the constipated Libertarian? He died from it.


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For the last time: I am not a mad scientist, I'm just a very ticked off
scientist!!!