[Elecraft] Parts availability
Gil Drynan
gild at seanet.com
Tue Oct 19 09:35:46 EDT 2021
Another contribution to the problem is west coast shipping terminals and
truck drivers to receive to receive and unload containers. Twenty+ ships
waiting for their turn to unload. Sometimes weeks. I'm in the Seattle area
and we get updates on the news lately.
Gil
W7GIL
> Amen Jim.
>
> Phil AB7WE
>
>> On Oct 18, 2021, at 4:26 PM, James Driskell <jmdriskell at msn.com> wrote:
>>
>> Unfortunately, the "Just In Time" concept that many US manufacturers
>> have built their businesses around never considered the "you're never
>> going to get it" approach that we now see. I hope someone is taking a
>> hard look at our national resource network because if the balloon goes
>> up, we're going to have a hard time cranking up the domestic supply
>> chain to meet our basic needs. We probably won't have the luxury of
>> being able to take our time to get it running.
>>
>> Jim W7OWI
>>
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>> Subject: [Elecraft] Parts availability
>>
>> Recently I tried to order some electronic parts for a project I am
>> working on. In the old days (like, a year ago) I would just get on the
>> Digi-Key web site, order what I want, and it would arrive in the mail
>> in
>> a few days.
>>
>> These days, there are a LOT of parts on the Digi-Key web site that show
>> no availability. I wanted to buy 10 standard, run-of-the-mill LM358
>> op-amps in an 8-pin DIP package. This is a 25 cent part that has been
>> around for decades. They had none in stock in that quantity, from any
>> manufacturer. I ended up ordering a couple in the old-fashioned TO-5
>> metal can package for *10 bucks each*. At least they did have some of
>> those in stock.
>>
>> I also wanted to buy a ceramic capacitor assortment. They listed 6
>> assortments that would have worked for me, but all were out of stock.
>>
>> Manufacturers with "just in time" parts ordering systems are in a world
>> of hurt these days. Fortunately I don't think Elecraft ever went down
>> that path.
>>
>> Alan N1AL
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