Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie

2020-01-03 Thread Mike Stein via cctalk
- 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

Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie

2020-01-03 Thread Guy Sotomayor via cctalk
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

Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie

2020-01-03 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
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,

Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie

2020-01-03 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
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

Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie

2020-01-03 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
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

Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie

2020-01-02 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
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

Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie

2020-01-02 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
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.

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2020-01-02 Thread Nemo Nusquam via cctalk
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.

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2020-01-02 Thread Ali via cctalk
>Well, Canada Post stopped delivering to individual >houses years ago.How does >that work?-Ali

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2020-01-02 Thread Nemo Nusquam via cctalk
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

Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie

2020-01-01 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
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

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2020-01-01 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
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

Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie

2020-01-01 Thread ben via cctalk
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

Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie

2020-01-01 Thread William Donzelli via cctalk
> 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

Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie

2020-01-01 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
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,

Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie

2020-01-01 Thread Toby Thain via cctalk
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

Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie (was: One of Bay Area's last Fry's Electronics stores closes)

2020-01-01 Thread Aaron Taylor via cctalk
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 (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

Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie (was: One of Bay Area's last Fry's Electronics stores closes)

2020-01-01 Thread Boris Gimbarzevsky via cctalk
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

Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie (was: One of Bay Area's last Fry's Electronics stores closes)

2019-12-31 Thread Alan Perry via cctalk
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

RE: Ordering parts onesie twosie (was: One of Bay Area's last Fry's Electronics stores closes)

2019-12-31 Thread Ali via cctalk
> 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

Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie (was: One of Bay Area's last Fry's Electronics stores closes)

2019-12-31 Thread Alan Perry via cctalk
On 12/31/19 2:53 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: And paid in much in S (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

Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie (was: One of Bay Area's last Fry's Electronics stores closes)

2019-12-31 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
And paid in much in S (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

Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie

2019-12-31 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
> 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

Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie

2019-12-31 Thread jim stephens via cctalk
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

Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie (was: One of Bay Area's last Fry's Electronics stores closes)

2019-12-31 Thread Alan Perry via cctalk
> On Dec 31, 2019, at 14:44, Ali wrote: > >  >> >> >> I ordered two from Mouser this week. >> >> alan > > And paid in much in S (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.

RE: Ordering parts onesie twosie (was: One of Bay Area's last Fry's Electronics stores closes)

2019-12-31 Thread Ali via cctalk
> > I ordered two from Mouser this week. > > alan And paid in much in S (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

Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie

2019-12-31 Thread Alan Perry via cctalk
> 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

Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie

2019-12-31 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
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

Ordering parts onesie twosie (was: One of Bay Area's last Fry's Electronics stores closes)

2019-12-31 Thread Alan Perry via cctalk
> 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