[sdiy] Parts Substitutions Page

[harry]

I signed up on USBid.com...

try it. Some of the prices will make you ROTFLYFAO !!!

Try 13600 or 13700... some one wants to sell the NJM in a lot
for more than Mouser sells them for !!!

I did see (2) uA726... just for fun. Make offer ???

H^)  harry  (a nice idea but....)

Simon Gatrall wrote:

> >Please visit
> >
> >http://members.xoom.com/_XMCM/chordman/index.html
> >
> >Click the "parts substitution" link.
> >
> >I've put about 10 hours of additional work into this.
> >
> >Martin Czech sent me an email thread with 'favs', so
> >I converted it to HTML (whew) and posted that too.
> >
> >If any of you have things to add, please email me.
> >
> >And I'd like to know what people think of the pages.
> >
> >Heh heh, far from perfect...
> >
> >-- Scott Gravenhorst | LegoManiac / Lego Trains / RIS 1.5
> >-- Linux Rex         | RedWebMail by RedStarWare
> >-- FatMan: www.teklab.com/~chordman
> >-- NonFatMan: members.xoom.com/_XMCM/chordman/index.html
>
> A source that I've used for professional reasons is
> http://www.freetradezone.com.  I'm not sure how useful it is for SDIY
> types of parts, but the database is very very large and the most of
> the links for PDFs and suppliers seem to work.  It has interesting
> features for searching for alternate parts based on the specs, but
> the database isn't always up to the task.
>
> While not exactly a substitution resource, there is another place
> that I find very interesting for finding smaller quantities of
> surplus parts: http://www.usbid.com.  Mostly OEMs want to sell
> 1000-100000 of some part of which they bought too many, but you do
> find some parts in smaller quantities (<100) that may be hard to
> locate any other way.  Depending on the seller, you can either buy at
> a fixed price, or there are auctioning and biding processes built
> into the system.  It is also a good way to sell any excess inventory
> of parts that you may have had to buy in quantity.
>
> -s!mon