Take a wooden yard stick and place marker on it for quantities 100, 50 20 and 10 parts. You might glue down a couple (one yard stick is not sufficient for all the various part spacing's) along the edge of a work bench. You can count off parts fairly quick. You can use small strips of parts as "Spacing Identifiers". Also, something I have yet to play with, is weight vs count. Scales at .01g are not super expensive, and they have computer interfaces. But you need some database and user interface to go along with it. Bob K. -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bob Wettermann Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 12:20 PM To: [log in to unmask] 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 ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please contact helpdesk at x2960 or [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please contact helpdesk at x2960 or [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________