[sdiy] Joe Knows Electronics etc.

[charlie wallace]

socal
http://www.electronicswarehouse.net/
https://www.yelp.com/biz/torrance-electronics-torrance
http://www.marvac.com/
http://www.rvac.com/
http://www.jkelectronics.com/

all electronics is alright for some stuff, mostly its very overpriced
and dumpster diving,  they do most of their biz via the website so in
store doesn't get much attention but i've found a few things there in
a pinch, sometimes they get a big batch of something cool like the
panavision cases, and you get some interesting stuff


On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Pete Hartman <pete.hartman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 3:52 PM, Kylee Kennedy <kmkennedy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Fry's used to have an electronics parts section, but it's not really
>> stocked anymore just like Radio Shack.
>>
>
>
> It's still better than Radio Shack in many ways, but anything that's
> actually silicon is NTE.  I've bought a few NTE devices that, when you look
> at them in a cross light, are obviously some other part with the NTE part
> number silkscreened over it.  I could take a picture of a couple of
> optoisolators (4N28 or similar) if anyone doesn't believe me.
>
> It's a shame there aren't more brick & mortar electronics shops even in
> large metros (only found one in all of Chicagoland, with a few cycles of
> looking, and they too carry almost exclusively NTE parts).
>
> Pete
>
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