[sdiy] good alternative for mini-jacks

[The Peasant]

Hello, Alex,

Not trying to be overly picky here (yah, right!), but I think you mean plugs,
not jacks. Jacks are what's installed in the modules themselves, plugs are on
the end of your cables that you push into the jacks. ;-)

Take care,
Doug

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The Electronic Peasant

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>since most of the modules i've been getting have been 1/8", i've been in 

>a
>mad search to find good 1/8" mini jacks.  up till now it looked like eith

>er
>expensive switchcraft or cheap crap.  but then andrew ison contacted me a

>nd
>told me he'd send me some cables he made with some jacks he got from RS i

>n
>england, FREE OF CHARGE.  a week or two later, i get these gorgeous cable

>s
>in the mail, and they're just perfect.  if a cable can be beautiful, thes

>e
>are.  so big thanks to andrew.  fantastic guy.
>
>but relevant to you folks is the lead he provided that led to my tracking
>down these jacks.  the RS website is www.rswww.com and the jacks are part
>number 449988.  i got an email this morning from RS and they let me know
>that since they have no US dist., CC ordering from the website is cool.  

>the
>jacks are £0.473p each or £4.73 per pack/10.  that works out to somet

>hing
>like $.70us per, about half what the switchcrafts go for.  they're all
>metal, feel much more solid than the crap ones i bought from mouser, have

> a
>plastic cable protector top, and have bands of knurling on the outside fo

>r
>added traction.  
>
>alternatively, these jacks are available from dick smith electronics in
>australia, and go for $1.14aust, which, with the $aust. so low right now,

> is
>even cheaper than the RS price.  this is the link on those:
>http://store.yahoo.com/dse-au/p1136.html.  i got an email from the DS fol

>ks
>this morning and CC ordering off their site is kosher too, your bank will
>convert.
>
>hope this helps someone else as much as it's helping me.
>
>alex
>
>http://www.geocities.com/aurelialuz/
>
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>-j. caletti 
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