Ordering parts onesie twosie (was: One of Bay Area's last Fry's Electronics stores closes)

[Alan Perry]

On 12/31/19 2:53 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
>>> And paid in much in S&H (if not more) to buy the two from Mouser then 
>>> it would have cost to get 50 from China... ;)
> On Tue, 31 Dec 2019, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote:
>> And what would I do with 50 when I need 2?
>> I paid $8 shipping. I’d pay close to that in gas to drive to the local 
>> Fry’s.
> 
> Does Fry's have any capacitors?

I would bet there is a more of a chance that they have something like 
that that sells relatively slowly.

> Or do we need to time travel back 40 years?

Even say 5 years, I'd say so. It always surprised me how much of that 
stuff that they continued to stock. But I don't know whether they would 
have had the 33 uF 25V tantalum ones that I need for the Motor Driver 
board on the Wangtek 5099EN24 QIC tape drive that I powered up for its 
first time in a dozen years last weekend.

In the Seattle area, I would actually look for parts like that locally 
at Vetco. But I live on the other side of Puget Sound from Seattle and 
that adds $20 a trip for me to drive there.

alan