Searching for electronics component distributors in USA

Digikey.com

The obvious one missing from this list, is DigiKey. American supplier, but they now have a UK website, and fowarding operation. For some parts they are unbeatable. Unfortunately, many 'laptop power jacks', are proprietary, and are only available as a spare, from the laptop manufacturer themselves...

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Chuck P.

Thank you Chuck, Roger and James! Very much appreciated.

These are the sorts of jack I need:

It seems they are obviously available somewhere, but I just can't find where! Those with the metal cover don't seem to be stocked by any of the aforementioned suppliers, including digikey. Does anyone have any other thoughts? How about Taiwanese suppliers?

thanks, Carl

I don't want to sound discouraging. But,unless you want 10,000 you probably won't find them if the sources you have already checked don't have them. You would be extremely lucky to find them in a Silicon Valley surplus store. If you want to keep looking Google Jameco, All Electronics and Marlin P. Jones.

Chuck P.

What about the folks behind the web site you cited? They have a button to click for ordering info.

Farnell / Newark / MCM / InOne

Allied Electronics is actually now owned by a UK firm.

Active Electronics / Future Electronics in Canada

I am actually going to ask if they will ship internationally, and perhaps give a discount on orders of 20+. Their pricing isn't so bad compared to some of the other companies out there asking $30 - $40 for a $0.99 socket.