webenda wrote:healey36 wrote:With Radio Shack gone, what's a good source for the components these days?
Your local electronics supply store, ebay, Amazon, https://www.digikey.com, https://www.mouser.com,
https://temu.com
Temu is interesting. They don't sell individual components but, for example, you get hundreds of resistors for less than the cost of a RadioShack 5 resistor package.
Example: https://www.temu.com/search_result.html ... ethod=user
The only thing about temu is that you often have to wait for the slow boat from China to arrive before the USPS can deliver your order.
I forgot Jameco as a source for electronic parts.
https://www.jameco.com/shop/KeywordSear ... Text=lm317
Many Electronic Parts stores that I have used have closed their doors. Most recently one of my favorites, All Electronics, sent this message to me, "After 56 years supplying surplus and new electronic parts and supplies, we have decided to call it quits."
There must be many more that I either forgot or never heard of.
Oh! Elliot Electronics. When Radio Shack closed I started using Elliott. Their prices on LEDs were higher than Radio Shack's prices but they had surplus parts dirt cheap.
https://www.elliottelectric.com/locatio ... vices.aspx