Bill Turner wrote:

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 17:20:01 GMT, Claudia & Reed Park
wrote:

In Canada, it's very hard top get small quantities of small parts even when you
can find someone that has what you need. I needed 7 zener diodes to do a project
and had to buy a minimum order of 500. Good thing they were only 7 cents each.

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Can you buy from Mouser in the US? Last time I checked they had no
minimum order and FAR more parts than Radio Shack. You do have to pay
shipping, but by the time you order about $25.00 or so, the saving in
parts cost will pay for the shipping.

www.mouser.com

No affiliation, just a satisfied customer.

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Bill, W6WRT

Not sure as of this writing Bill. Fewer and fewer places in the US of A
are willing to ship to Canada. One place I checked before Christmas
had increased the minimum order to Canada to $ 150.00 in US funds.
Some places have no minimum order if the address is American. I
should start polling companies and create a data base of who will and who
will not. We used to have a super supplier in town, but that was
decades ago and was known as CamGuard Supply. You could walk in
and buy one 1/8 watt resistor if you wanted from a fella behind the counter
who knew what you were talking about. No blister packs back then.
Now it takes me days of searching the internet, and days to unwrap the
darned thing when I do get it. No wonder so few new people are interested
in electronics, it's just to hard to find parts.

Ham of 38 years who loves to build things.
Reed - VE1NU

It's easier to get tubes for 70 year old radios than parts for 15 year old radios.