[Boatanchors] Capacitors

Sun Aug 21 10:10:45 EDT 2011

That's ok as long as you can wait a week or so for the snail to arrive.

Dave Harmon
K6XYZ[at]sbcglobal[dot]net
Sperry, Ok.

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[mailto:boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Paul Baldock
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 8:42 AM
To: Boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Capacitors

Usually for a small order Digikey is best because unlike Mouser they 
will still ship first class  mail and that is often as little as $2.00

- Paul

At 05:30 PM 8/20/2011, Dave Harmon wrote:
>Nope.....
>I've never paid more than $8 for shipping from them Priority
mail....cheaper
>than FedEx as well.
>However....they have started charging sales tax in the amount of the state
>where the order was placed.
>I called Mouser recently and asked about this and they said a lot of states
>are forcing this issue....it started this year I think.
>There is some info in the internet about it...
>http://www.newrules.org/retail/rules/internet-sales-tax-fairness
>
>
>Dave Harmon
>K6XYZ[at]sbcglobal[dot]net
>Sperry, Ok.
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Robert Moses
>Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 4:04 PM
>To: Boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Capacitors
>
>Mouser has expensive shipping. I think that it is about $15 minimum. Try
>DigiKey. They tend to charge a more fair price for shipping, but the
>selection is slightly smaller for radio hobbiests. They still have an
>excellent selection and good prices.
>
>Charlie Cheney wrote:
>
> >WRT Mouser, yes, they have very reasonable prices and extensive stock,
> >but unless I missed an button during my most recent checkout, their
> >online order site doesn't allow you to find out what shipping is going
> >to cost, you just have to select a method blind. I was pretty shocked
> >that a $40 order weighing less than a pound and containing no special
> >hazardous items cost me $16 to ship to MA via FedEx ground. And I never
> >got any paperwork telling me what I was paying for shipping, I only
> >found it out by looking at my credit card statement. Maybe they were
> >embarrassed to admit it.
> >
> >Maybe the thing to do is call in the order and discuss shipping options
> >with a live person.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Charlie K1LDZ
> >
> >
> >On 8/15/2011 7:09 PM, Al Parker wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi Larry,
> >>      Not sure where you're looking, but try Mouser.com.  Axial leads
seem
>to
> >>be getting like you say, particularly in the higher voltages, but
> >>"radial" are still more affordable.
> >>      And they don't have a min. qty&  don't tack on extra handling,
etc.,
>chgs.
> >>73,
> >>
> >>Al, W8UT
> >>www.boatanchors.org
> >>www.hammarlund.info
> >>
> >>"There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much
> >>worth doing as simply messing about in boats"
> >>Ratty, to Mole
> >>
> >>On 8/15/2011 6:49 PM, telegrapher at q.com wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Why are electrolytic capacitors so expensive?  Even the newer Aluminum
>are out of this world.  I am looking for a 20 @ 450V and a 50 and 150V.
One
>is $17 and the other is either $25 or $38 for single quantities.  Almost to
>expensive to fix and sending them in to Hayseed would run around $30 ea
>also.  This is for a real nice Gates Modulation Monitor with a pair of nice
>big meters on the front, one for reading transmitter on or off frequency
>values and the other is for modulation.
> >>>
> >>>I have not determined that they existing caps are bad but as they are
>probably 40 plus years old, why not fix them now instead of having to pull
>the thing out of a rack to redo later.
> >>>
> >>>Maybe i'll junk it out!  NOT!
> >>>
> >>>Larry
> >>>W0OGH
> >>>
> >>>
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