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Re: Parts

4/22/2003 4:31 PM
Joe Gagan	Re: Parts Try to buy in as large a quantity as you can get away with . For example, design your product to use as many of the same pot value as possible to possibly get you to a magic 100 or 500 piece price break. Gerald Weber is a master of this. His Buffulo Fuzz contained all the same pot value for every pot, [ if I remember right], and the resistors on the board were almost all 10 k or 100k. very easy to assemble this way too. I use Mouser a a lot, but I also get knobs from MSC industrial supply, some other things from Digi-Key, and have also bought from MCI. I buy germanium trannies in bulk from Summit Electronics in FLa. I just got the Newark Catalog - it is so huge I got a headache trying to find some simple things in there!

4/22/2003 4:31 PM

Joe Gagan

Re: Parts

Try to buy in as large a quantity as you can get away with .
For example, design your product to use as many of the same pot value as possible to possibly get you to a magic 100 or 500 piece price break.

Gerald Weber is a master of this. His Buffulo Fuzz contained all the same pot value for every pot, [ if I remember right], and the resistors on the board were almost all 10 k or 100k. very easy to assemble this way too.

I use Mouser a a lot, but I also get knobs from
MSC industrial supply, some other things from Digi-Key, and have also bought from MCI.
I buy germanium trannies in bulk from Summit Electronics in FLa.

I just got the Newark Catalog - it is so huge I got a headache trying to find some simple things in there!