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 Return to top of page · Post #: 16 · Written at 10:49:14 AM on 7 July 2013.
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 Scraps
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I haven't ordered recently but because they price in US $ I suspect the recent plunge in the Aussie $ is going to hurt. The minimum order can be a bit hard to make but I just pad it out with common values. I'm a bit of a perfectionist and like that they stock odd values like 0.025mfd even though 0.022 would do. Their resistors are actually rated for high voltage, something I haven't found locally.

I still buy all my electro's and as much of everything else as I can from Steve Savell.
 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 17 · Written at 1:32:11 PM on 7 July 2013.
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The rumour in financial circles is that the Battler will be US$0.75 before too long. It may be just enough to save the last vestiges of consumer-level manufacturing in this country. Fridges, cars and some clothing and homeware items is about it now.


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