Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie
- Original Message - From: "Chuck Guzis via cctalk" To: "Paul Berger via cctalk" Sent: Friday, January 03, 2020 11:41 AM Subject: Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie > On 1/3/20 5:22 AM, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote: > >> >> Rural delivery is done to mail boxes along the roads, which means the >> people have to travel from their house to said road to get their mail. >> We lived on a farm for part of the time I was growing up and for us that >> was 3/4 of a mile, and that was not uncommon in the area, for some it >> was even further. Quite different from walking a block, maybe, to a >> community box. > > That's no different from where I live (US), though my mailbox is only > about 250 ft. from my house. Packages are delivered to the front door. > > Not a big deal. > > --Chuck > - Canada Post has a little-publicised service called "FlexDelivery", very useful for foiling 'Porch Pirates' who follow the trucks and steal those packages left at your front door. Regardless of whether you have your mail delivered to your door or a community mailbox you can register for a special free 'virtual' post box address where they will email you when a *parcel* arrives and hold it for two weeks for you to pick up. m
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On Fri, 2020-01-03 at 09:22 -0400, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote: > On 2020-01-03 2:51 a.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > On 2020-01-02 9:58 p.m., Nemo Nusquam via cctalk wrote: > >Well, Canada Post stopped delivering to individual >houses years > ago. > I assume that rural delivery still goes house-to-house. > --Chuck > Rural delivery is done to mail boxes along the roads, which means the > people have to travel from their house to said road to get their > mail. We lived on a farm for part of the time I was growing up and > for us that was 3/4 of a mile, and that was not uncommon in the area, > for some it was even further. Quite different from walking a block, > maybe, to a community box. > > > Yea, our bank of mailboxes is 2.5 miles from our house. We got intoheated arguments with the Post Office because we didn't go down and emptyour box every day. We finally got a P.O Box at a different (more convenient)Post Office. Now we have to deal with folks who don't understand that ourmailing address and physical address are different. :-/ It also infuriates me that *every* other shipper (UPS, FedEx) can deliverright to our door but USPS can't be bothered. -- TTFN - Guy
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On 1/3/20 5:22 AM, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote: > > Rural delivery is done to mail boxes along the roads, which means the > people have to travel from their house to said road to get their mail. > We lived on a farm for part of the time I was growing up and for us that > was 3/4 of a mile, and that was not uncommon in the area, for some it > was even further. Quite different from walking a block, maybe, to a > community box. That's no different from where I live (US), though my mailbox is only about 250 ft. from my house. Packages are delivered to the front door. Not a big deal. --Chuck
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Well, it sounds like Amazon is trying to fix this with there "lockers" everywhere. Expect prime shipments to only be to lockers soon, with the rest to follow. (gazing into my crystel ball...) On 1/3/2020 8:22 AM, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote: On 2020-01-03 2:51 a.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 2020-01-02 9:58 p.m., Nemo Nusquam via cctalk wrote: >Well, Canada Post stopped delivering to individual >houses years ago. I assume that rural delivery still goes house-to-house. --Chuck Rural delivery is done to mail boxes along the roads, which means the people have to travel from their house to said road to get their mail. We lived on a farm for part of the time I was growing up and for us that was 3/4 of a mile, and that was not uncommon in the area, for some it was even further. Quite different from walking a block, maybe, to a community box. Paul.
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On 2020-01-03 2:51 a.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 2020-01-02 9:58 p.m., Nemo Nusquam via cctalk wrote: >Well, Canada Post stopped delivering to individual >houses years ago. I assume that rural delivery still goes house-to-house. --Chuck Rural delivery is done to mail boxes along the roads, which means the people have to travel from their house to said road to get their mail. We lived on a farm for part of the time I was growing up and for us that was 3/4 of a mile, and that was not uncommon in the area, for some it was even further. Quite different from walking a block, maybe, to a community box. Paul.
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On 2020-01-02 9:58 p.m., Nemo Nusquam via cctalk wrote: >Well, Canada Post stopped delivering to individual >houses years ago. I assume that rural delivery still goes house-to-house. --Chuck
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On 2020-01-02 9:58 p.m., Nemo Nusquam via cctalk wrote: On 01/02/20 17:22, Ali wrote: >Well, Canada Post stopped delivering to individual >houses years ago. How does that work? Community mailboxes that serve a neighbourhood. You need to trek to one to pick up your mail. (https://www.canadapost.ca/cpc/en/personal/receiving/manage-mail/community-mailbox.page) N. A good part of the city where I live still has door to door delivery from Canada Post, but on the other hand the community where I grew up never did. Paul.
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On 01/02/20 17:22, Ali wrote: >Well, Canada Post stopped delivering to individual >houses years ago. How does that work? Community mailboxes that serve a neighbourhood. You need to trek to one to pick up your mail. (https://www.canadapost.ca/cpc/en/personal/receiving/manage-mail/community-mailbox.page) N.
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>Well, Canada Post stopped delivering to individual >houses years ago.How does >that work?-Ali
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On 01/01/20 11:07, Toby Thain via cctalk wrote (in part): On 2019-12-31 5:52 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote (in part): On an interesting note, I read an article recently, that popped up in my financial news. Delivery services have reached the breaking point in the cities, due to the amount of deliveries, and the lack of parking. Huh. I wonder how postal mail ever worked. Well, Canada Post stopped delivering to individual houses years ago. In you live in the GTA, you still have Sayal. N.
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On 1/1/20 9:41 PM, ben via cctalk wrote: > On 1/1/2020 7:51 PM, Nigel Johnson via cctalk wrote: > But I want 600V hookup wire. Not every thing is less than 50 volts. > Solder with lead... Quad Electrostaic speakers ... New vinyl LPS ... I think you have to know where to look: https://www.remingtonindustries.com/hook-up-wire/ --Chuck
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On 1/1/2020 7:51 PM, Nigel Johnson via cctalk wrote: And for those who own old vibrator sets, the Royal Signals Amateur Radio Club in the UK makes batches of solid state plug-in vibrators. I just love the smell of the anti-fungal spray and the hum of warm valves on those old radios! There will always be ways and means to find parts for old equipment - and the internet makes it easier to find them. No, you cannot walk into a store and buy them, but that is is another sign of the times. I just needed some rolls of hookup wire - instead of putting the snowshoes on and traipsing through the snowdrifts, I just clicked on an Amazon button and let their drivers worry about getting it to me! But I want 600V hookup wire. Not every thing is less than 50 volts. Solder with lead... Quad Electrostaic speakers ... New vinyl LPS ... cheers, Nigel I suspect the big thing with retro projects, is that they are easy to construct. A radio needs wire, a diode , and more wire for the headpones. A pi project has just pre-made PCB's and a solderless breadboad. A 8 bit computer, some IC's and a chinese PCB. Ben.
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And for those who own old vibrator sets, the Royal Signals Amateur Radio Club in the UK makes batches of solid state plug-in vibrators. I just love the smell of the anti-fungal spray and the hum of warm valves on those old radios! There will always be ways and means to find parts for old equipment - and the internet makes it easier to find them. No, you cannot walk into a store and buy them, but that is is another sign of the times. I just needed some rolls of hookup wire - instead of putting the snowshoes on and traipsing through the snowdrifts, I just clicked on an Amazon button and let their drivers worry about getting it to me! cheers, Nigel On 01/01/2020 21:45, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote: I don't weep and moan about something from the past vanishes because of lack of interest, Is the list not all about interest in obsolete computer technology, and getting these weird old machines going again? any more than I weep about the unavailability of RTL flatpacks or variocouplers or UV201s. Variocouplers and UV-201s? Bring them on. The market for those items still exists, and is quite decent. The old timers still know how the surplus market works. How much of a run do you imagine that 5V TTL logic will have? It's pretty much incompatible with tiny cell geometries. Um...again...this list? 7400 logic is still in demand, to a smallish extent, with hobbyists. Like people trying to get PDP-11s and stuff going again. But it really does not matter. I could have a pallet of currentish RPis, and, well, I would end up dying with a pallet of RPis. -- Will -- Nigel Johnson MSc., MIEEE VE3ID/G4AJQ/VA3MCU Amateur Radio, the origin of the open-source concept! You can reach me by voice on Skype: TILBURY2591 If time travel ever will be possible, it already is. Ask me again yesterday This e-mail is not and cannot, by its nature, be confidential. En route from me to you, it will pass across the public Internet, easily readable by any number of system administrators along the way. Nigel Johnson Please consider the environment when deciding if you really need to print this message
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> I don't weep and moan about something from the past vanishes because of > lack of interest, Is the list not all about interest in obsolete computer technology, and getting these weird old machines going again? > any more than I weep about the unavailability of RTL > flatpacks or variocouplers or UV201s. Variocouplers and UV-201s? Bring them on. The market for those items still exists, and is quite decent. The old timers still know how the surplus market works. > How much of a run do you imagine > that 5V TTL logic will have? It's pretty much incompatible with tiny > cell geometries. Um...again...this list? 7400 logic is still in demand, to a smallish extent, with hobbyists. Like people trying to get PDP-11s and stuff going again. But it really does not matter. I could have a pallet of currentish RPis, and, well, I would end up dying with a pallet of RPis. -- Will
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> On Jan 1, 2020, at 09:23, Chuck Guzis via cctalk > wrote: > > I could see the writing on the wall when the local independent > electronics parts supplier (Norvac) closed in the 90s. That left > mail-order or Radio Shack, but the smaller stores who had very limited > inventories. I still have my portable all-band radio that I bought > around that time. It cost, IIRC, somewhere around $200. I listened to > the BBC World Service a lot during that time. I remember first hearing > about 9/11 on the WS. > > Now, of course, who listens to shortwave broadcast radio? The Internet > has killed off a lot of things, broadcast radio and TV among them. There are a lot of short wave services shutting down, but there is still a lot out there. With a 75-foot long piece of speaker wire run up a tree behind my house in the Seattle area, I can listen to stations in New Zealand and central Africa. Being able to listen stations that far away over the air with such a rudimentary setup gets some people interested in short wave. In a similar vein, supposedly cell phones are killing ham radio. Ham radio stores (who customers were buyers of electronics parts) have shut down in most places. But there are more license holders than ever and there is a bunch of public interest in it (for emergency preparedness and such). alan
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On 1/1/20 10:36 AM, William Donzelli wrote: > And then you weep and moan when another goes under... > > I am no longer marketing modern(ish) electronic components for retail > - there is no money there. All that stuff - 1000s of ICs and > capacitors and connectors are going out for metal recovery. Yes, it > hits home. I don't weep and moan about something from the past vanishes because of lack of interest, any more than I weep about the unavailability of RTL flatpacks or variocouplers or UV201s. How much of a run do you imagine that 5V TTL logic will have? It's pretty much incompatible with tiny cell geometries. The inexorable march of human progress; you do what you can to tread water, but eventually it overtakes you and the old paradigms don't work any longer. It's probably for the better; we old fossils won't be around much longer anyway. I suspect that my late father would understand the Internet any more than my grandfather would have understood electronics or his father, internal combustion engines. --Chuck
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On 01/01/2020 04:11 PM, ben via cctalk wrote: On 1/1/2020 11:36 AM, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote: I am no longer marketing modern(ish) electronic components for retail - there is no money there. All that stuff - 1000s of ICs and capacitors and connectors are going out for metal recovery. Yes, it hits home. -- Will Let us not forget, places like Digikey (sp) tend to have only the latest surface mount stuff, not handy to find thru the hole parts, or not so common part, like 120 ns one vers 200 ns one. But on the other hand Digikey has true overnight shipping, order before say 5 pm and get it the next day. Digi-Key still has plenty of through-hole parts, although less than the 2 million+ items they once stocked. Since I have a P&P machine, I, too, have moved over to using as much SMT as possible, but still use a lot of through-hole connectors and power transistors. Their search engine is great, and this has pushed other distributors to upgrade their search capability. Jon
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On 1/1/2020 11:36 AM, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote: I am no longer marketing modern(ish) electronic components for retail - there is no money there. All that stuff - 1000s of ICs and capacitors and connectors are going out for metal recovery. Yes, it hits home. -- Will Let us not forget, places like Digikey (sp) tend to have only the latest surface mount stuff, not handy to find thru the hole parts, or not so common part, like 120 ns one vers 200 ns one. But on the other hand Digikey has true overnight shipping, order before say 5 pm and get it the next day.
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> You do what you have to using the best available resources. Sadly, > local manufacturers and suppliers are no longer options. And pretty soon, independent surplus dealers will also no longer be an option. Most of them have lots of modern and vintage goodies - the kind of stuff this thread is all about - and will work with buyers if only a few pieces are needed. Most will do custom orders and search for oddball parts. Most will do internet/mail order with reasonable shipping money. They want your business. All you need to do is ask. But, the independent surplus dealers are giving up in legion, simply because you (and I mean you as in nearly everyone on this list) stopped shopping with them. Too inconvenient, apparently. At this point, I do not think it even crosses anyone's mind to try the independent market at all. And then you weep and moan when another goes under... I am no longer marketing modern(ish) electronic components for retail - there is no money there. All that stuff - 1000s of ICs and capacitors and connectors are going out for metal recovery. Yes, it hits home. -- Will
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I could see the writing on the wall when the local independent electronics parts supplier (Norvac) closed in the 90s. That left mail-order or Radio Shack, but the smaller stores who had very limited inventories. I still have my portable all-band radio that I bought around that time. It cost, IIRC, somewhere around $200. I listened to the BBC World Service a lot during that time. I remember first hearing about 9/11 on the WS. Now, of course, who listens to shortwave broadcast radio? The Internet has killed off a lot of things, broadcast radio and TV among them. Local electronics part suppliers seem to just be collateral damage. You do what you have to using the best available resources. Sadly, local manufacturers and suppliers are no longer options. --Chuck
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On 2019-12-31 5:52 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: > > >> On Dec 31, 2019, at 2:42 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk >> wrote: >>> On Dec 31, 2019, at 14:25, Chuck Guzis via cctalk >>> wrote: >>> On 12/31/19 2:15 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: >> On Dec 31, 2019, at 13:32, Ali via cctalk wrote: > > I hate having to order 50 capacitors from China every time I need one > I ordered two from Mouser this week. >>> >>> Dunno--after all, you're simply moving your purchasing closer to the >>> point of production when you order from China. So that makes sense to >>> cut out the middleman. >> >> Shipping just two capacitors from Texas to Seattle seems silly enough. >> Shipping them from China seems really silly to me. >> >> Distribution (middlemen) is how a lot of the people earn a living. > > Unfortunately the lack of actual electronics parts places in town mean that > shopping online is the only option. We used to have multiple options in the > area, they slowly disappeared, including Rat Shack. Fry’s is the only option > that I’m aware of left. > > On an interesting note, I read an article recently, that popped up in my > financial news. Delivery services have reached the breaking point in the > cities, due to the amount of deliveries, and the lack of parking. Huh. I wonder how postal mail ever worked. --T > > Zane > >
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On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 02:43:59PM -0800, Ali via cctalk wrote: > > > > I ordered two from Mouser this week. > > > > alan > > And paid in much in S&H (if not more) to buy the two from Mouser then it > would have cost to get 50 from China... ;) FWIW, Digikey ships small items like capacitors for free if you pay by check and live in the US or Canada. Scroll down to Section 6 of their Terms and Conditions and read the asterisk. https://www.digikey.com/en/terms-and-conditions It's been years since I've used that feature but as a student I remember the process being pretty painless. Aaron
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At 14:15 31-12-19, you wrote: > On Dec 31, 2019, at 13:32, Ali via cctalk wrote: > > I hate having to order 50 capacitors from China every time I need one > I ordered two from Mouser this week. alan One of the things I miss most is no longer having any local electronic suppliers. Larger cities have more, but all of the places piled high with old electronics in Seattle in 1980's were no longer there when last visited Seattle around 2007 or so. Vancouver has one electronics store which, given Vancouver traffic, was at least a 1 hour drive each way. Seems that no-one is interesting in restoring old systems or building them anymore. The old surplus electronic stores in Canada seemed to fade away in 1970's, but Western Surplus in Edmonton was an excellent place to find military surplus electronics in 1960's. Hate online ordering as don't get a chance to actually look at what one is getting and there's a minimum of a few days to a week delay before one gets the item. Living in middle of BC means a week is closer to how long it takes. As far as China goes, have waited months for electronics to come from China. Really cheap, but even cheaper if one pulls things like 16x32 multicolor LED displays out of sale kids toys; a girls "programmable display purse" cost less on sale at ToysRus than buying a multicolor LED matrix new from China (and before factoring in shipping and duties) and after disassembly, one got a very well manufactured multicolor LED matrix as well as very a very shoddy, likely ARM CPU based, board which connected to the LED matrix. Find that online ordering results in my having an excess of microprocessor development systems which I still haven't used, of which the most use in future will be Propeller proto boards as that's my favorite CPU after PDP-11. Learned early that don't have a few glasses of wine before starting to order electronics online ($1500 AdaFruit order was result). Now I just try to stock up on things that are likely to be in short supply and that I don't want to run out of. Current system of immediately getting a part when one needs it very fragile and depends on a complex transportation system which can easily fall apart in a SHTF situation. Also, donate old electronics to people who will resuse them (such as out local Makerspace which may represent a future form of distributed manufacturing). Not having local stocks of electronic parts available for purchase very annoying and only solution I've found for now is to look at what parts I'm likely to need and order 50 of them or whatever number I get a decent price break. Electrolytic capacitors have a finite lifetime and would prefer to buy them new but will just have to hope they age more slowly when not in use.
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On 12/31/19 3:03 PM, Ali via cctalk wrote: And what would I do with 50 when I need 2? Save them for the next project? My garage is full of stuff saved for the next project. At some point one runs out of space. Or recollection that one bought 48 extra capacitors years ago. I paid $8 shipping. I’d pay close to that in gas to drive to the local Fry’s. Your local Fry's must be far or you got a serious gas guzzler there... My point is that when there was a RadioShack on every corner you could get a part easy and with minimum fuss (and only $0.30 in gas). 20 miles away at $3.50/gallon and 23 city mpg gets one roughly close to $8. A RadioShack selling capacitors on every corner made more sense when electronics devices were made from more components that could be replaced individually using inexpensive equipment. It is more of a specialty product now. alan
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> And what would I do with 50 when I need 2? Save them for the next project? > I paid $8 shipping. I’d pay close to that in gas to drive to the local > Fry’s. Your local Fry's must be far or you got a serious gas guzzler there... My point is that when there was a RadioShack on every corner you could get a part easy and with minimum fuss (and only $0.30 in gas).
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> Does Fry's have any capacitors? > > Or do we need to time travel back 40 years? No idea Fred, but if they don't, they should put some on the shelves. With all the competition gone I would think a store catering to such needs locally would do well in the right areas. Until of course Amazon starts stocking electronic parts, cables, etc. in their "fresh" stores. One thing people never discuss is the environmental cost of all the shipping we are doing. All those boxes, cars, gas, etc. aren't really free...
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On 12/31/19 2:53 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: And paid in much in S&H (if not more) to buy the two from Mouser then it would have cost to get 50 from China... ;) On Tue, 31 Dec 2019, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: And what would I do with 50 when I need 2? I paid $8 shipping. I’d pay close to that in gas to drive to the local Fry’s. Does Fry's have any capacitors? I would bet there is a more of a chance that they have something like that that sells relatively slowly. Or do we need to time travel back 40 years? Even say 5 years, I'd say so. It always surprised me how much of that stuff that they continued to stock. But I don't know whether they would have had the 33 uF 25V tantalum ones that I need for the Motor Driver board on the Wangtek 5099EN24 QIC tape drive that I powered up for its first time in a dozen years last weekend. In the Seattle area, I would actually look for parts like that locally at Vetco. But I live on the other side of Puget Sound from Seattle and that adds $20 a trip for me to drive there. alan
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And paid in much in S&H (if not more) to buy the two from Mouser then it would have cost to get 50 from China... ;) On Tue, 31 Dec 2019, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: And what would I do with 50 when I need 2? I paid $8 shipping. I’d pay close to that in gas to drive to the local Fry’s. Does Fry's have any capacitors? Or do we need to time travel back 40 years?
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> On Dec 31, 2019, at 2:42 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk > wrote: >> On Dec 31, 2019, at 14:25, Chuck Guzis via cctalk >> wrote: >> On 12/31/19 2:15 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: >>> >>> > On Dec 31, 2019, at 13:32, Ali via cctalk wrote: I hate having to order 50 capacitors from China every time I need one >>> >>> I ordered two from Mouser this week. >> >> Dunno--after all, you're simply moving your purchasing closer to the >> point of production when you order from China. So that makes sense to >> cut out the middleman. > > Shipping just two capacitors from Texas to Seattle seems silly enough. > Shipping them from China seems really silly to me. > > Distribution (middlemen) is how a lot of the people earn a living. Unfortunately the lack of actual electronics parts places in town mean that shopping online is the only option. We used to have multiple options in the area, they slowly disappeared, including Rat Shack. Fry’s is the only option that I’m aware of left. On an interesting note, I read an article recently, that popped up in my financial news. Delivery services have reached the breaking point in the cities, due to the amount of deliveries, and the lack of parking. Zane
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On 12/31/2019 2:42 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: Shipping just two capacitors from Texas to Seattle seems silly enough. Shipping them from China seems really silly to me. I usually pay zero for such shipping from China. Sometimes 12 bucks priority mail for domestic. A bubble envelope from China takes 6 weeks, but they seldom charge for shipping. Varieties of reasons for that won't go into them here. thanks Jim
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> On Dec 31, 2019, at 14:44, Ali wrote: > > >> >> >> I ordered two from Mouser this week. >> >> alan > > And paid in much in S&H (if not more) to buy the two from Mouser then it > would have cost to get 50 from China... ;) And what would I do with 50 when I need 2? I paid $8 shipping. I’d pay close to that in gas to drive to the local Fry’s. alan
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> > I ordered two from Mouser this week. > > alan And paid in much in S&H (if not more) to buy the two from Mouser then it would have cost to get 50 from China... ;) Honestly, if this is your livelihood and it has to be here fast Mouser (or digikeys or any of the other guys) works. Or if you are doing a big order so the cost of the items vs. shipping balances out that’s fine too. But when I need two caps for $0.20 and have to pay $7.95 for S&H to repair a hobby item I rather wait for it to come from China and just get a bunch of extra. I would, however, gladly drive out to a local store and pay $3-4 to pick up the same two caps NOW (and peruse for some nonessentials since I am already there ;)). Just me I guess...
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> On Dec 31, 2019, at 14:25, Chuck Guzis via cctalk > wrote: > > On 12/31/19 2:15 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: >> >> On Dec 31, 2019, at 13:32, Ali via cctalk wrote: >>> >>> I hate having to order 50 capacitors from China every time I need one >>> >> >> I ordered two from Mouser this week. > > Dunno--after all, you're simply moving your purchasing closer to the > point of production when you order from China. So that makes sense to > cut out the middleman. Shipping just two capacitors from Texas to Seattle seems silly enough. Shipping them from China seems really silly to me. Distribution (middlemen) is how a lot of the people earn a living. alan
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On 12/31/19 2:15 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: > > >> On Dec 31, 2019, at 13:32, Ali via cctalk wrote: >> >> I hate having to order 50 capacitors from China every time I need one >> > > I ordered two from Mouser this week. Dunno--after all, you're simply moving your purchasing closer to the point of production when you order from China. So that makes sense to cut out the middleman. --Chuck
Ordering parts onesie twosie (was: One of Bay Area's last Fry's Electronics stores closes)
> On Dec 31, 2019, at 13:32, Ali via cctalk wrote: > > I hate having to order 50 capacitors from China every time I need one > I ordered two from Mouser this week. alan
