[sdiy] Quirky parts vendors

[Eric Brombaugh]

Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 February 2009 11:29:11 am Dave Manley wrote:
>> If I remember correctly, Poly Paks was the "high density" ad leader of
>> the time.  More parts packed per page of Radio/Popular Electronics than
>> any other vendor.  I give Dan credit for his use of white space - but
>> then he's from the "Land of Big Sky", and so likes his wide open
>> places.  On the other hand, listing parts like this: TL0-81 and TLO-72
>> (digit "0" vs letter "O" and the creatively placed hyphen)...
>>
>> o_O!
> 
> That,  the constant bad spelling,  the PO Box only for an address,  no paypal 
> or cards,  and a bunch of the other stuff makes me discinlined to deal with 
> him,  even though there's lots of nifty stuff there.
> 
> I guess that's his choice,  but...

As noted earlier in the thread, Dan's seems to cater primarily to the 
Ham Radio set. Hams are generally more old-school when it comes to 
modern conveniences and probably don't mind. No flames please - I'm one 
too :)

Did spot some nifty precision pot knobs that would probably get the EMS 
crowd excited. A lot of germanium diodes for the distortion freaks. 
Variable caps & slug-tuned inductors maybe not so useful for SDIY though.

>> Tom Wiltshire wrote:
>>> Arrrrrgggghhhh!! Nightmare website!!!
>>>
>>> T.
>>> (recovering web designer)
> 
> Yeah.  Thanks for the ability to resize fonts in firefix,  <ctrl>-, <ctrl>-, 
> <ctrl>-...

Learn something new every day! Thanks.

Eric ( KC7GXA )