<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Even if Thonk did have that ability, I'm trying to skip the multiple ocean crossings for these parts. I have a sizeable stash here in Texas, have already shipped some to JLCPCB, and don't want to do it again!<div><br></div><div>I will explore the parts request option. It seems like for parts you can't get from a distributor it gets more complicated. <br><div><br></div><div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Oct 7, 2024, at 7:42 AM, Mike Bryant <mbryant@futurehorizons.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thonk may not have the forms for re-exporting Chinese made goods back to China. It can be quite complicated. I've had Digikey have to turn down several requests to sent to JLCPCB because of this.</div><div id="appendonsend" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"></div><hr tabindex="-1" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; width: 735.96875px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;"></span><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Synth-diy <synth-diy-bounces@synth-diy.org> on behalf of Ben Gebhardt via Synth-diy <synth-diy@synth-diy.org><br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>07 October 2024 13:12<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>SYNTH DIY <Synth-diy@synth-diy.org><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [sdiy] qingpu jacks in china</font><div> </div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">If you strike out in China try Thonk.</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 7, 2024, at 7:36 AM, Chris McDowell via Synth-diy <synth-diy@synth-diy.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Great, thanks Mike. Was this through just emailing support? <br id="x_x_lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Cheers,<div>Chris </div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 7, 2024, at 2:57 AM, Mike Bryant <mbryant@futurehorizons.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="x_x_elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Definitely have in my case. For example I needed a quarter reel of a particular transistor so they ordered a whole reel and reserved a quarter of it for me. Same with a tray of STM32 MCUs - no idea how many they had to buy of those but they had them in-stock for several months.</div><div class="x_x_elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div class="x_x_elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">But this was over a year ago so might have changed. They've introduced that system where you can sell your excess stock to others since then.</div><div id="x_x_appendonsend"></div><hr tabindex="-1" style="display: inline-block; width: 716.375px;"><div id="x_x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Chris McDowell <declareupdate@gmail.com><br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>07 October 2024 03:44<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Jesse Weideman <jesse.weideman@gmail.com><br><b>Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Mike Bryant <mbryant@futurehorizons.com>; SYNTH DIY <synth-diy@synth-diy.org><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [sdiy] qingpu jacks in china</font><div> </div></div><div style="line-break: after-white-space;">Have you guys had success getting then to order more of something out of stock? I don't see an easy way to request that here, looks like they are just giving me the option to consign the part. <div><br></div><div><br><div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Oct 6, 2024, at 9:40 PM, Jesse Weideman <jesse.weideman@gmail.com> wrote:</div><br class="x_x_x_Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://jlcpcb.com/parts/componentSearch?searchTxt=Wqp518">https://jlcpcb.com/parts/componentSearch?searchTxt=Wqp518</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">There's 4 or 5 entries w part numbers so should just be a matter of having them order for you</div><br><div class="x_x_x_gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="x_x_x_gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 6, 2024, 9:35 PM Chris McDowell via Synth-diy <<a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="x_x_x_gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="line-break: after-white-space;">Ohh no, and that's a great idea! <br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Oct 6, 2024, at 9:29 PM, Mike Bryant <<a href="mailto:mbryant@futurehorizons.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">mbryant@futurehorizons.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Have you tried asking LCSC/JLCPCB to stock that part and give it a part number ? They did this with a part I needed about 2 years ago, getting around MOQ problems.</div><div id="x_x_x_m_-1503381498231126162appendonsend" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none;"></div><hr style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; width: 735.96875px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;"></span><div id="x_x_x_m_-1503381498231126162divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>From:</b><span> </span>Synth-diy <<a href="mailto:synth-diy-bounces@synth-diy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">synth-diy-bounces@synth-diy.org</a>> on behalf of Chris McDowell via Synth-diy <<a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>><br><b>Sent:</b><span> </span>07 October 2024 03:10<br><b>To:</b><span> </span>Synth-Diy mailing list <<a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b><span> </span>[sdiy] qingpu jacks in china</font><div> </div></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><div>Does anyone know of a source of the popular qingpu jacks (wqp-518ma) for lower quantities directly in china? I have bought direct from them before, but their MOQ has gone up recently. I'm looking for a reseller or broker in China as I'm consigning them to JLCPCB and don't want them to cross all the oceans unnecessarily.<span> </span><br><br>Cheers,<br>Chris McDowell<span> </span><br>________________________________________________________<br>This is the Synth-diy mailing list<br>Submit email to:<span> </span><a href="mailto:Synth-diy@synth-diy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a><br>View archive at:<span> </span><a href="https://synth-diy.org/pipermail/synth-diy/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://synth-diy.org/pipermail/synth-diy/</a><br>Check your settings at:<span> </span><a href="https://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy</a><br>Selling or trading? 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