[sdiy] Vactrols [was: RSSM2164 last time buy…]

[mark verbos]

No, something happened with the ownership. They went from Perkkin Elmer to Excelitas. The price sky rocketed, then was back down. I know I spent $1000 on them at $9 each thinking that was the best price I ever get again. Then a month later they were back to $4. ugh.

Mark





On Feb 6, 2013, at 3:10 PM, Tom Wiltshire wrote:

> 
> On 6 Feb 2013, at 19:26, "Lanterman, Aaron" <lanterma at ece.gatech.edu> wrote:
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>> On Feb 6, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Dan Snazelle <subjectivity at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Btw....i just noticed cool audio sells a vactrol now too!
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>> 
>> They're also (relatively) reasonably priced ($4-$6) at Allied Electronic now too:.
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>> I say  "relatively" since for a while the price shot up to three to four times that -- no idea why.
>> 
>> - Aaron
> 
> I think it was due to fears about them disappearing for good as a result of European environmental legislation. The EU ROHS directive aims to eliminate any components that contain substances considered harmful, and vactrols are on the hit list. For a while, it seemed like everyone was thinking that they were about to go for good, and prices shot up as people did emergency last-time-buys. But then the smoke cleared and vactrols are still here, at least for the moment.
> 
> But maybe that wasn't it at all and I've got the stick by the sticky end. Wouldn't be the first time.
> 
> Regards,
> Tom
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