[sdiy] Quirky parts vendors

[Michael O'Bannon]

I'm a ham (and not offended by being called old school), and I've 
ordered from Dan several times.  Except the snailmail lag, his service 
has always been fine and his products are good quality.

Best regards,
Michael  KD4SGN

> 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 )
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