Hi Bob,
 
Having been the unwilling participant in physical inventories too many times and having to count strips, I feel your pain.
 
I created a "Pitch Guide" PowerPoint slide that has 2mm, 4mm, and 8mm pitch scales that you can use. Print out the slide and then cut the scales out with a paper cutter or pair of scissors then tape them down to use to count the parts on the strips. If you are worried about the ESD of the paper, laminate them with some ESD safe material.
 
http://stevezeva.homestead.com/Pitch_Guide.ppt
 
Steve
 

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 From: Bob Wettermann <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 12:20 PM
Subject: [TN] Measuring a few parts on cut tape many times over
  

Dear Technetters:

For those of you doing protos who deal with "cut tape" as a feed in to the
feeder is there an easy way to count the number of parts each and every
time? It takes a lot of time to count these parts (and it is soooo boring)
and then cut the strip to the correct size.

Thanks!

Bob W


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