On Wednesday 09 Nov 2005 10:33, David SMITH wrote: > www.pcb-pool.com; > they come with my highest recommendation.
Me too. > I mostly use rswww.com, with occasional orders to > www.farnell.co.uk for stuff that RS don't stock. Me too, but vice-versa. http://www.mainlinegroup.co.uk/mless/main.php are useful for certain things. - Except when I checked that link it seems their warehouse has just burned down :-( eBay can be good for filling up the junk cupboard with common bits and pieces, but not for any particular item you need to finish a project: Business->ElectricalTestEquip->Components > www.maplin.co.uk > used to be reasonably good, but they've gone down the "consumer tat" > path and are now virtually useless. The catalogue still has some useable stuff, but the shops don't stock anything even slightly unusual. Last weekend I bought three 40 pin DIL sockets and 5 32-way SIL socket strips at the Leicester branch and took their entire stock of three stock lines. Digikey charge £25 P&P on all orders under £75, and not much less until £100 - lovely catalogue but totally unreasonable unless you have a huge order. -- Richard Urwin
