[sdiy] buying resistors

[Tim Ressel]

Yo,

I do pretty much what J. La does, but with 5% values.
I never thought to use 1% values. I didn't want that
many bin boxes. I guess you could get the closest 1%
values... Larry's method works for me, too: whenever I
need some value and it's not there, I write it on my
order pad. Then, after Hell freezes over and I have a
job again, I place an order for all the stuff on the
list.

One thing I learned: Stay away from carbon composition
resistors. They are nasty buggers. I only use carbon
film or better. 

--tr

--- "J. Larry Hendry" <jlarryh at iquest.net> wrote:
> I'm sure everyone has a different story, but I will
> share mine.  I have
> taken to pretty much using 1% resistors for
> everything since they are so
> cheap.  I buy the Xicon jobbies from Mouser
> (271-value).  If you buy 10 at a
> time they are 9 cents each.  So, that is 90 cents. 
> But, at quantity 200,
> the price drops to 2 cents each, only $4 total.  So,
> I just started ordering
> a bag of 200 every time I needed a resistor of a
> particular size.  It was
> not long before I had a very substantial collection
> of resistors in the
> sizes I used most.  I rarely buy a resistor these
> days.
> Larry H
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tom FitzGibbon <fitz at madbbs.com>
> --
> I am just starting to build stuff without kits, so
> what is the best way to
> buy resistors? piece by piece? or is there some good
> way to get a wide
> variety in bulk.
> Thanks
> -Tom
> 
> 


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