When I were a wee lad, we used to machine passive components to value (sometimes the "whole thing", sometimes a companion trim piece). There's no economy of sca

When I were a wee lad, we used to machine passive components to value (sometimes the "whole thing", sometimes a companion trim piece). There's no economy of scale to be had there, and binning won't help all that much because it's the installed value that matters, not the loose part value.