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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:
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>> Rural delivery
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 goe
On 1/3/20 5:22 AM, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote:
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> 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,
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 w
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
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
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.cana
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-m
>Well, Canada Post stopped delivering to individual >houses years ago.How does
>that work?-Ali
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 o
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.remingt
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 wi
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 equi
> 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 o
> On Jan 1, 2020, at 09:23, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
> wrote:
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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
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
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.
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,
> 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 a
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, II
On 2019-12-31 5:52 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
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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 c
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 fo
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.
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
> 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
> 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
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
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 Fr
> 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:
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>>>
> On Dec 31, 2019, at 13:32, Ali via cctalk wrote:
I hate having to order 50 capacitor
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 fr
> On Dec 31, 2019, at 14:44, Ali wrote:
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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... ;)
And what would I do with 50 when I need 2?
I paid $8 shipping.
>
> 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
> On Dec 31, 2019, at 14:25, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
> wrote:
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> On 12/31/19 2:15 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote:
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>>
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
On 12/31/19 2:15 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote:
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>
>> On Dec 31, 2019, at 13:32, Ali via cctalk wrote:
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>> 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 t
> 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
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