"Frank Dresser" ) writes:
"Gray Shockley" wrote in message
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On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 19:44:01 -0600, Charles Hawtrey wrote


I'm in the middle of slightly rebuilding a couple of old radios and I
need a
very few parts (our only electronics store is gone because of the
health of
the owner [sigh].


What are y'all's recommendations for a component mail order house?

I'm specifically looking for one where there won't be a $15 shipping
charge
on five dollars worth of parts.

As always/Thank you very much.



Gray Shockley

Here's a few places I've done business with:

http://www.danssmallpartsandkits.net/

Dan has great prices and usually has a good turnaround time. I've been
100% satisfied. However, it's a one man operation, and there have been
times when he's been so backlogged that there have been newsgroup
threads wondering if Dan is still in business or even still alive.

One advantage (or disadvantage) of him is that he's focused on radio
related parts, and mainly long standard common items. So he's not
a good place to get the latest widget, and he is lacking in some things
that would be nice to order from him (such as a better selection of IF
filters), but for projects using common items you should be able to
get all the parts from him. You can get the semiconductors, the bypass
capacitors, the variable capacitors and the toroids. I'm not sure
a place like Digikey or Mouser carry toroids or variable capacitors (if
they do the latter, likely the prices would be high) so ordering elsewhere
might require multiple orders.

Michael