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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="392002606-24102016"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">Yes, it is a bit shocking that even large American cities have
no component shops to speak of. Of course, we are spoiled here in
Vancouver, with Lee's Electronic Components on Fraser Street, by far the best
component shop I have ever seen anywhere in the world, and they do a crazy good
business. They used to be on Main Street, but they closed the Main
location a few weeks ago (much sadness, since Main St. is way cooler than Fraser
St. with more to do and more places to eat). Still on Main is Main
Electronics, which is probably the second best components shop I've ever
seen. I go there when Lee's doesn't have what I want -- they were three
doors down from Lee's. There used to be two or three others in town, but
they couldn't compete with Lee's and they've all closed down now I
think.</font></span></div><br />
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<font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> Synth-diy
[mailto:synth-diy-bounces@dropmix.xs4all.nl] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Pete
Hartman<br /><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, October 23, 2016 2:38 PM<br /><b>To:</b> Kylee
Kennedy<br /><b>Cc:</b> SDIY List<br /><b>Subject:</b> Re: [sdiy] Joe Knows
Electronics etc.<br /></font><br /></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 3:52 PM, Kylee Kennedy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kmkennedy@gmail.com" target="_blank">kmkennedy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br />
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<div>Fry's used to have an electronics parts section, but it's not
really stocked anymore just like Radio Shack.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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).</div>
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