Where to buy electronic components?
Electronic components seem to be consigned to history. Maplin is now more of a toy shop, radio shack has long since gone. Thank goodness for small independent shops says one amp repairer!
I occasionally use the big online stores like RS and CPC Farnell but why do they charge £5 for a resistor? I just don’t get it.
However on ebay I find lots of little shops being operated from home selling resistors individually for a reasonable postage. It’s an amazing change for me. In five years ebay has gone from a novelty to neccessity and I would never have thought it possible.
Another of my favourite shops is bitsbox very reasonable postage and wide range of stock also helpful with it. Thoroughly recommended and I am sure that there are more just like it.
Recently I needed to buy a neon lamp and found it very hard matching something that was only made 20 years ago. Increasingly disposability will mean that availability will continue to decline.