[UFO Chicago] Electronic Components store

[Peter A. Peterson II]

Now that's an informative message!

I think you're pretty right, although you may find enough of the
inbetween stuff with AmSci that you brick-and-mortar trip elsewhere
will be cheaper. But yeah -- it is surplus, so selection is often
limited.

Peter

Quoting jordanb@hafd.org:
> Well my impression was that, while their merchandise was interesting,
> they had a very poor selection. They had breadth, but no depth, such
> as it were.
> 
> Like, they have (for example) a big deep bin of gears, so you look at
> it and think "wow, a lot of gears," but when you actually start
> digging, there's only five different types of gears in there. That's
> not enough to build anything. I looked at a bunch of their other
> merchandise and it's all the same, just a few different types of each
> thing.
> 
> If you're building something, and you need a 200?F capacitor, for
> example. Odds are they're not going to be able to help you, because
> it's pretty doubtful that that's one of the 15 types of capacitor
> they have.
> 
> So if you're a high school physical science teacher, or just like to
> collect cool looking junk, then they can probably hook you up, but if
> you're looking for a "brick-and-mortar" Mouser, they're not it.
> 
> -- 
> Jordan Bettis <http://www.hafd.org/~jordanb>
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>         --former NBC news president Rubin Frank
> 
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