> With practice, and a foot-pedal operated vacuum pen you can hand-place pa=
rts pretty quick - for
> large numbers of the same part, with the tape stuck down you can get down=
 to a couple of seconds per
> part.

I think I can peak at 1 second per 1208 resistor with my metal tweezers.=20
What slows me down is
- finding the right places on the PCB
- flipping the 1208's to get the value side up (I don't pick them from=20
the tape, I 'untape' them before storing)

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