[sdiy] Electronics Parts Search

[Doctroid]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Seb Francis <seb at burnit.co.uk> wrote:
> As I was taking a few moments to search around my usual suppliers, I felt
> there had to be a quicker way to do this sort of thing.  So a quick bit of
> coding later ...
>
> http://burnit.co.uk/sdiy/part_search.php
>
> It's kind of UK oriented, but I'm happy to add more suppliers if someone
> sends me the relevant search URL (i.e. the full search URL to which I can
> just append a search term).
>
> Seb
>
> P.S. The CA3046 seems quite widely available.

Am I using it wrong? I search on "CA3046", checking off "US", and I
get 9 tabs of which 7 say nothing found, 1 (the Farnell tab) doesn't
even show a search, just a table of links to Farnell distributors
(none in the US), and 1 (Nikko) shows the part available.  Not my idea
of "widely available"!

Also, there's this:

http://octopart.com/search?q=CA3146