Favorite Suppliers and best deals

[Krumlink]

This thread is for your favorite suppliers and the best sites for good deals. I started this thread just to expand my list of suppliers I usually buy from.

My favorites:
Jameco
Easy interface with links on side for products and pictures. My favorite supplier. Low prices and quick responds and friendly staff. Has Catalog (Somewhat Small)
www.jameco.com

Electronic Goldmine
Surpuls supplier good for cheap and quick parts. Has great deals on surplus items. good shipping and easy interface. Has sales flyer ( only 10 pages)
www.goldmine-elec.com

List any of your favorite suppliers below. There was a similar thread like this one, but I diddnt want to reserect a dead thread.

 

[Krumlink]

Radioshack is evil. Overpriced china junk. I only go there for a quick part I forgot or their perf boards.

 

[3v0]

You can bash RS all you like but when they are gone where will you go when you need a quick part.

If you like Electronic Goldmine checkout allelectronics.

Use the search function to find similar threads regarding suppliers.

 

[things]

i like RS (rs components) but some of their things are way overpriced. The best thing about them is their range, their catalogue is about 2300 pages long!!!

 

[HarveyH42]

http://www.surplusshed.com/
Optics and solar stuff. Pretty good prices.

**broken link removed**
Surplus, sometimes some very good prices.

http://www.futurlec.com/index.shtml
Best prices on descretes and basic chips. I get my AVR chips here. Not real fast, almost 3 weeks last time. Came from Thailand this time, but varies...

**broken link removed**
LEDs. Very low prices, but you need about 50 pieces to get into the good discounts. Shipping is dirt cheap.

http://www.mpja.com/
Another surplus store, not much of interest to me, but occasionally they get something of interest.

**broken link removed**
Surplus, sometimes a little pricey, but huge inventory.

**broken link removed**
Surplus in Orlando, Fl., still haven't visited the store, and have known about it for maybe 16 years now...

http://www.sciplus.com/
Mostly consumer surplus (crap), but the have wheels, motors, pumps and some electronics. Lots of science and lab stuff. When I first found the site, they didn't research much, were really cheap on electronics stuff (guess they didn't know the value). Now, prices aren't bad, but closer to what other sites sell the same item. Good place for repurposing type materials cheap.

http://ccmcoffee.com/
Get my green coffee beans here for roasting at home. Tampa, Fl.

About all of my store bookmarks...

 

[justDIY]

Supplier or Vendor?

Favorite suppliers:

Microchip, Texas Instruments, Dallas-Maxim, Linear, ST Micro, Phillips

Favorite vendors:

BG Micro, All Electronics, MPJA, Mouser, Digi-Key

 

[things]

http://www.surplusshed.com/
Optics and solar stuff. Pretty good prices.

**broken link removed**
Surplus, sometimes some very good prices.

http://www.futurlec.com/index.shtml
Best prices on descretes and basic chips. I get my AVR chips here. Not real fast, almost 3 weeks last time. Came from Thailand this time, but varies...

**broken link removed**
LEDs. Very low prices, but you need about 50 pieces to get into the good discounts. Shipping is dirt cheap.

http://www.mpja.com/
Another surplus store, not much of interest to me, but occasionally they get something of interest.

**broken link removed**
Surplus, sometimes a little pricey, but huge inventory.

**broken link removed**
Surplus in Orlando, Fl., still haven't visited the store, and have known about it for maybe 16 years now...

http://www.sciplus.com/
Mostly consumer surplus (crap), but the have wheels, motors, pumps and some electronics. Lots of science and lab stuff. When I first found the site, they didn't research much, were really cheap on electronics stuff (guess they didn't know the value). Now, prices aren't bad, but closer to what other sites sell the same item. Good place for repurposing type materials cheap.

http://ccmcoffee.com/
Get my green coffee beans here for roasting at home. Tampa, Fl.

About all of my store bookmarks...

ebay.com

 

[Hero999]

Maplins, Radio Shack.

 

[Krumlink]

Cmon how any nobody not like jameco! Jameco is cheap and awesome! Digikey and newark are expenisve and i dont like em.

 

[HarveyH42]

Jameco isn't cheap. Didn't know we were voting... I usually look at the surplus sites first. Sometimes they get stuff, and don't check prices to well, sometimes they need the shelf space for faster moving stock. Failing there I'll try Jameco, but check the price with Digikey or some other supplier.

 

[dknguyen]

Cmon how any nobody not like jameco! Jameco is cheap and awesome! Digikey and newark are expenisve and i dont like em.

Jameco costs a fortune for me compared to Digikey. Or wait...or was that Mouser? I don't remember anymore. Probably about the same due to shipping.

 

[HarveyH42]

Jameco is a retailer, and priced accordingly. Don't remember their shipping being note worthy. Digikey is usually cheaper, as they do more volume, but I go there mostly because they almost always have hard to find stuff in stock.

 

[Leftyretro]

I have had very good luck with E-bay for electronics components. I tend to buy bulk bargain items rather then specific one off items because the shipping costs usually kills the price advantage. For instants a bulk 2,000 assorted 1% metal film 1/4 watt resistors was around $16 including shipping from China, took about 10 days to deliver. That's less then a penny each

**broken link removed**

Lefty

 

[picbits]

In the UK (in order of preference) ..........

Rapid Electronics - www.rapidonline.com - good on price but limited range on semiconductors. Excellent service, good for blank PCBs, chemicals, resistors, caps and off the shelf transistors/fets. Next day delivery free over a certain value.
Farnell - uk.farnell.com - vast range and can suprise sometimes on price. Good delivery service (usually next day).
Hylec-APL - www.hylec-apl.com - friendly distributor of Kingbright LEDs about 2 miles from my house (and less than a mile from the school run). Good for bulk purchases of relays and LED displays.
Crownhill - www.crownhill.co.uk - not used these guys for quite a while but would not hesitate to use them again for small quantities of PIC purchase. Excellent friendly service.
RS - www.rswww.com - vast range but tend to be overpriced. Have trade counters (Corby one is 20-30 mins drive for me).
Maplin - www.maplin.co.uk - down at the bottom as they are going the same way as Tandy did. Overpriced components and doing more toys than electronics now but good in an emergency.

 

[picbits]

Maplins, Radio Shack.

We've got a Radio Shack in the UK ??????

Or do you mean RS ?

 

[things]

are people getting confused between RS(rs components) and RS(radio shack)? we don't have radio shack in australia, i think it's called tandy instead?

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

are people getting confused between RS(rs components) and RS(radio shack)? we don't have radio shack in australia, i think it's called tandy instead?

It was called Tandy in the UK as well, but they closed years and years ago.

Any confusion is caused by people calling RadioShack 'RS' instead of their real name.

 

[things]

i don't see any electronic components in tandy???

 

[Dawny]

In Australia I use.

Dick Smith Electronics: http://www.dse.com.au/cgi-bin/dse.storefront (mainly because there is one just down the street from me.)
Jaycar Electronics: http://www.jaycar.com.au/ (Has some stuff cheaper then others.)
Altronics: http://www.altronics.com.au/ (Don't use them often, sort of more costly.)

Just lately I have to say I've been using **broken link removed** they seem ok when they remember to send an order. Also I have an order coming in from The Electronic Goldmine (I hope.)

Dawn.

 

[Marks256]

I thought Tandy owned Radio Shack?

(off subject)

I used to own a Tandy "multimedia" computer... It was awesome. I had all the original software (dos 5.0, 6.22 upgrade, win 3.1, and like 200 floppy disk games (3.5" and 5.25")

Then about 4 months ago i tore it apart. I think it had a 386 in it... don't remember...