[sdiy] Quirky parts vendors

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Tuesday 03 February 2009 02:33:12 pm Eric Brombaugh wrote:
> 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 :)

No flames,  but I guess I kinda got used to convenience,  and being able to 
move transactions along fairly quick.

> 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.

Hey,  didn't the ARP Omni use a slug-tuned coil for a master tuning coil?  (Or 
should that be "tunning"?)  Dunno what value that was offhand,  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.

It ain't the first time I've found it useful.  :-)

<ctrl>0 resets it.

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