26-05-2011, 10:20 AM
Ever since I started with electronics I've installed resistors with the tolerance band to the right on the horizontally mounted and south on the vertically mounted. My college lecturer actually noticed this half way through the first term and said he was pleased to see such attention to detail but I had been building stuff 4 years before I started college anyway, so it was just a discipline I had developed for myself.
I did it with caps too, where they weren't polarised and had a difference one end to the other.
Also, when I'm replacing parts in valve radio's that are assembled with tag strip and so on, I solder suck the connections in question so I can remove the original wrapped wire from the tag and install the new component as original. It's the electronic servicing equivalent of wearing a hair shirt but I simply can't do it any other way ! Not for me just snipping out and touch soldering the new part in place !
I reckon it is obsessive compulsive though as other people make comments about my working practices being 'intense' !
I did it with caps too, where they weren't polarised and had a difference one end to the other.
Also, when I'm replacing parts in valve radio's that are assembled with tag strip and so on, I solder suck the connections in question so I can remove the original wrapped wire from the tag and install the new component as original. It's the electronic servicing equivalent of wearing a hair shirt but I simply can't do it any other way ! Not for me just snipping out and touch soldering the new part in place !
I reckon it is obsessive compulsive though as other people make comments about my working practices being 'intense' !
