Re: [MLUG] looking for electronics parts source, local to Columbia, not Radio Shack

["Mark Rages" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 4/3/06, Pottinger, Hardy J. <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> I'm hoping someone knows of a local electronics parts store. I'm looking for a 40.000 KHz crystal, to repair a dog collar. The part can be found online for $.83, but I'm having trouble getting my head arround not being able to find this locally. Even if I can't find this particular part, if there's another local place besides RS, I'd love to know about it. Thanks!
>

Do you mean megahertz?  40.000 KHz is more likely to be a ceramic resonator.

I don't know of any local electronics store in Columbia.  It's not
"that kind of town".  When I was in Rolla, there was a pretty good
electronics distributor.  There was also a "hobby club" in the EE
building.  And down the hall was another electronics lab, where the
tech was a friendly guy and would give you whatever you were looking
for.  (Also, he smoked a pipe.  I was back in Rolla over St. Pat's and
the EE building still smells the same.)

Don't look for anything like that in Columbia.  As near as I can tell,
Mizzou's EE department exists to provide vocational Java training to
overseas workers and bring in that sweet out-of-state money.

I have some cabinets of parts that I got from an engineer who was
getting out of the hardware business.  So if anybody needs some
oddball resistor value, or TTL/CMOS logic chips, I've probably got it
in my garage.  I've only got 12 and 20 MHz crystals though, but I've
got hundreds of 'em.

Regards,
Mark
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