parts advice

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I am finding that i am spending a ton on shipping simply due to the fact that i am ordering parts per pedal....
I want to stock up on more common parts used in building. what would the more pedal addicts recommend on resistors, caps, and trannies to buy more than  just a few of....

please give me some help on this

thanks scott

[ianmgull]

I started out with some assortments such as these:

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=resistor+assortment&category0=

Not bad considering everything comes sorted by value. After a while you'll get a feel for what values you use the most and stock up on those.

ian

[MikeH]

I usually think up my next 5 builds or so and order all of the parts at once.  Smaller, cheaper parts common to many builds (caps, resistors, diodes) I buy double of.  Before you know it you've got a pretty good stash.

[The French connection]

Hi! BeavisAudio (Dano) have a nice list here:

http://beavisaudio.com/techpages/buildstuff/#WellStockedShop

Dan

[sfx]

Futurlec has a bunch of dirt cheap value packs for resistors, caps, etc., check it out:
http://www.futurlec.com/ValuePacks.shtml

I discovered this over at freestompboxes.org, what a godsend.

[PurpleStrat]

Being in a similar situation as you I have found sites like http://www.goldmine-elec.com/, http://www.futurlec.com/index.shtml, and like it was pointed out above the China stuff from Ebay to be good for stocking up. For common transistors (and lots of other stuff) http://www.effectsconnection.com/ has ones like 2N3904 in packs of 100 for cheap and they are alot faster then waiting for them from China.