Please suggest online parts retailers...

[micro]

I am looking for an IC chip that is backordered on Mouser. Can you guys recommend a few sites you like to use to order parts?

[Papa_lazerous]

I use Farnell for most parts like op-amps resistors general transistors

Anything I'm stuck for I use maplins (But trust me I need to be stuck!)

And ofcourse dont forget smallbear he's got half the worlds supply of anything you will ever need to build effects

[CGDARK]

Check these sites:

https://www.jameco.com/

http://www.futurlec.com/index.shtml

http://www.digikey.com/

https://www.alliedelec.com/default.asp

http://www.newark.com/

CG

[CGDARK]

Oh, I forgot one:

http://www.diystompboxes.com/zencart/

CG

[CGDARK]

O.K. maybe more than one:

http://www.smallbearelec.com/home.html

http://www.pedalpartsplus.com/

CG

[Barcode80]

Can we please post this in the wiki? these threads are endless.... one pops up like every other day and a quick search will yield a million suggestions.

[CGDARK]

Can we please post this in the wiki? these threads are endless.... one pops up like every other day and a quick search will yield a million suggestions.

Good  .

CG

[demonstar]

I agree with Papa_lazerous totally; Farnell is great and free delivery and excellent customer service from my encounter. I try to only use maplin if I can pick things up of the shelf myself. It's not like you guys at radioshack. You have to trust the folks at maplin to get it from behind a counter for you.

Last week I was in maplin and it took about 4 or 5 attempts in total to get me a lm386. I had to go to a couple of shops too. They tried giving me caps or whooping great big ICs and telling me profusely it was the lm386. No joke! It was a right mess. I'd reserved things and they hadn't put it away and mixed the knobs up, the lot. A DISASTER but I got it in the end.

[aron]

The wiki? You mean like this page?

http://www.diystompboxes.com/wiki/index.php?title=Links

[Barcode80]

HAH! I just ASSUMED that if it were there, someone who searched would have already found it. But I guess if i took my own advice, I would've noticed it too. 

[micro]

Hmmm... it seems no matter how careful you are (being new), you always seem to commit some kind of forum faux pa....
Anyway, thanks guys!

[GREEN FUZ]

Last week I was in maplin and it took about 4 or 5 attempts in total to get me a lm386. I had to go to a couple of shops too. They tried giving me caps or whooping great big ICs and telling me profusely it was the lm386. No joke! It was a right mess. I'd reserved things and they hadn't put it away and mixed the knobs up, the lot. A DISASTER but I got it in the end.

I went to my local Maplins the other day, something I avoid if possible, as , despite the army of staff no-one seems  willing to enter the stock room for parts. I was determined though so I filled out the little docket with a ton of components. I could tell the guy really didn`t want to fulfill the order but he duly headed off to get the parts.
When he came back I could hear him muttering to himself something like"ooohh I don`t want to do this" as he fiddled around with the cash register. He clearly didn`t want to be entering codes and then the amount of components so he finally gave up saying "Oh just give me 55p". It was mainly capacitors and such but would have added up to a lot more than was charged. It made up for previous occasions where my efforts to buy some basic items have been thwarted by disinterested staff.

All of that said I`m actually grateful that there is anywhere to buy electronic components. Yesterday I went into the branch off Oxford Street and despite a small groan from the Sales assistant I did get all the parts I needed.

[Barcode80]

Hmmm... it seems no matter how careful you are (being new), you always seem to commit some kind of forum faux pa....
Anyway, thanks guys!

heh, don't worry, i've been lurking about for going on a year, and it never fails that about once a week i ask or say something i wish i had searched about first! we all forget, welcome aboard though!