Re: Part suppliers.

kell wrote:
>
>
> The demise of electronics parts stores is one of my beefs.
> I live in New York City, where you can find anything -- except
> an electronics parts store (besides RS).
> The last such place, Sylvan-Wellington on Canal street, closed
> many years ago. Canal street used to have a lot of junk and surplus
> shops, some of which had electronics of various sorts lying around.
> No such luck any more.
> I hear people from other parts of the world posting here about their
> local electronics stores, where they can go and buy mosfets or
> whatever. What is it about the U.S. are we such mindless consumers
> that we can't do anything for ourselves any more, so there's no demand
> for the goods do-it-yourselfers would need?
> I get most of my stuff from the net, or some salvaged from junk
> electronics retrieved from streetside rubbish.


tell me how you can have a surplus store with high inventory taxes,
JIT manufacturing, a high percentage of electronics made in other
countries, and the outrageous rent charged for any building big enough
to have a decent selection? In other words, there isn't the supply of
surplus parts there used to be, and the cost for a retail store is quite
high, so people invest their money somewhere else. Those surplus shops
on Canal Street existed because of cheap rent and millions of tons of
surplus bought by the pound.

--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
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