I'm sick of going to radioshack and paying ridiculous prices.
Anyone know of good online supplier?
Also, would anyone here happen to know of any stores in NYC that carry a selection like Radio Shack?
Thanks again,
-sam
I'm sick of going to radioshack and paying ridiculous prices.
Anyone know of good online supplier?
Also, would anyone here happen to know of any stores in NYC that carry a selection like Radio Shack?
Thanks again,
-sam
Mouser Digi-Key
As far as I know, Mouser is more like RadioShack and Digi-Key is more for engineers. I've ordered from both.
Good luck and have fun.
In , snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com mentions:
There are lots of them out there.
I kind of like allelectronics.com
Just be careful not to rely too much on parts being in stock, if it's out of stock, they'll ship the rest of the order, leaving the "out of stock" part out of the order. This means that.. if you're working on something that needs all the parts, you could get stuck paying the shipping fee twice.
It's a fun site to visit, they always have weird stuff there.
I don't like alltronics.com
The only reason I don't like them is that they didn't respond to an inquiry I had once. Could have been a fluke incident. (I know there have been times when I lost emails from people asking me stuff regarding my products, must have looked like I didn't care.)
I don't despise them or anything, just had ONE bad experience, I've heard good things about them, so I may be out of line by saying I don't like them. (and a but hippo-critical)
You could also visit Don Lancasters website:
It's full of advertisements, but it's also full of information.
He's got lots of papers and info on getting cheap parts. (and good books too)
I like his site because, although it's full of ads, it's also full of content, making the ads quite acceptable. (He's got to get paid for all that work he does some how!)
Jamie
-- http://podtronic.podro.com Podcast for hobby electronics Non-Professional / Kitchen table circuit design / Fun with electronics
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Welcome to Usenet. Most readers really appreciate (ok, that's sugar coating it) the attempt made by a person to find the information to such a question themselves. You are already familiar with google through their mail system, so why not try a websearch?
Oh, and have you heard of Google Local? Just type your query and location, and Google usually pulls up local results. Wonderful, isn't it?
Puckdropper
-- Wise is the man who attempts to answer his question before asking it. To email me directly, send a message to puckdropper (at) fastmail.fm
Just wanted to note that although google does a great job, relying on it to buy something could end up in boosted search results. I found google to be accurate for private searches but boosted for commercial ones. No sweat, just my 2 cents.
Bart Bervoets
Hi, Sam. Two good hobbyist sources are Mouser and Jameco. They're both online, and both have paper catalogs. And I understand Mouser will even send your order Parcel Post if you're willing to wait.
Be sure to request a catalog with your order.
Good luck Chris
As someone suggested All electronics is pretty good for hobby electronic stuff Alltronics is good too but their stock can be limited.
Add bg micro to that list
goldmine is another
Jameco
They are more like Mouser/Digikey but have better prices than either and keep what they advertise in stock
All the above have paper catalogs free for the asking.
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you obviously dont know much....~:>
Of course, in this case it's not just a matter of finding information, but getting an evaluation.
I was once asked to find a cheap source of button cells for something for a friend, and doing a websearch on the battery number turned up about one place. Obviously it was a place to get them, but there was no clue about whether the business really existed beyond a website, or if they did have stock how reliable they were.
It amazes me to see people thinking they can have a business if they have a website, and then they worry about how they rank in a search engine return. The fallacy is that they aren't doing all the things a business needs to do to make it viable, like advertising and getting customers in early who will hopefully talk about their good experience, and getting talked about in old media. The sorts of things that tell the potential customer that it is a real business, and people have bought from it.
I suppose it is easy to find companies that do mail order in electronics. I've never searched, and my first thought is figuring out suitable searchwords. But unless someone finds a place where actual customers are discussing the companies, it won't give an independent verification of the business.
When I was a kid and first went to buy parts, I did pick a name out of the Yellow Pages. Of course, there was a real store so I could evaluate the store first hand, rather than sending money off to some faraway place. It turned out to be a good choice, the place was a combination old style parts store and surplus outlet (ETCO here in Canada, for those who might remember the time when they did mailorder), and I later discovered there were other stores of the same nature clustered nearby. But, I could have just as easily picked some other place, and had a bad experience.
Michael
In the old days, there were hobby magazines, and that's how we'd find out about stores such as this.
Obviously, those magazines are gone, with "Nuts & Volts" being the only general electronic hobby magazine in North America that I can think of now. It is worth getting a copy, at least for the ads (though glancing at it, I don't see the same level of ads that we used to see in the old magazines), to get a feel for what's out there.
Michael
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The good old days. QST, 73, Radio Electronics, Poptronics. And Canal Street in NYC for electronics surplus; store after store filled with bins of cheap surplus military and computer surplus electronics . Last time I was there there was one old holdout and a brand new computer store the rest was taken over by Chna Town.
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But I thought Canal Street disappeared when they started work on the World Trade Center almost forty years ago. At least, I've seen articles about the area's demise because of the construction, and those articles were from the late sixties.
Of course, QST is still publishing (as is CQ), but CQ is the only ham magazine available at the newsstands, QST having abandoned, after about a decade, their distribution to non-ham outlets.
Michael
The area changed a lot from when I was a kid, but the sign said canal street. My OM was with me and pointed to a building where he said Lafayette Electronics had their start. It looked like the old canal street - still run down looking, the old stores are there - most selling cheap knock-offs from China and a few Chinese food stores. There were a lot of changes too. We walked from the Fulton Fish market to Canal. I think the Pace College campus was new and a big new police station. Fulton Market is mostly or many coffee houses now, but it looked like they still sell fish in a portion of it - tjhey were filming a movie so we didn't get to explore as much as I would have liked.
The one electronic place had some very old stuff antique electronics and bins full of waveguides - looked like they were made from brass tubing.
This was about 9 years ago. Trade Center was still standing.
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John Doe wrote:
you obviously dont know much....~:>
Yup.
During a search for merchants, you can get lots of pointers to the same merchant. Word-of-mouth helps eliminate that problem. By asking for advice you can find better merchants that aren't the best at spamming their URLs all over search engines.
Have fun.
In addition to the big companys already mentioned I also order stuff from BGMicro below.
Have you tried Newark.com?
I wonder what web site is best for searching. Anyone has a clue?
I bought some LCD displays from EIO.com. $3.00 each plus shipping. No problems whatsoever.
Other surplus dealers - buy it when you see it, it won't be there next month (and maybe not tomorrow).
Marlin P Jones www.mpja,com
SkyCraft Surplus
I second All Electronics. Just got some 2x24 LCD displays with EL backlight for $4 each, along with way too much other "stuff" ;-)
John
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