[TriEmbed] All Electronics is going out of business!

[Josh Wyatt]

Good reminiscing!

In the vein of all this, I'd encourage everyone to check out Dan's Small
Parts and Kits:

https://www.danssmallpartsandkits.net/

Thanks,
Josh

On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 1:38 PM Pete soper via TriEmbed <
triembed at triembed.org> wrote:

> When I lived in the Boston area in the mid 70s I frequently visited Poly
> Paks <https://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/4455981283>, an easy drive from
> where I lived. If you follow the link check out the lower right corner:
> their terms were even more amazing than their prices. Best selection of
> factory floor sweepings in the east at the time. They're long gone but I'm
> still nostalgic about them and All Electronics was certainly an outfit in
> the same vein. I loved the stuff from All.
>
> Now most folks have very easy access to cheap stuff as well as parts with
> provenance online. With my little biz I was careful to keep the floor
> sweepings strictly segregated from the parts I could trust. But I cannot
> recall more than one or two episodes of untraceable parts failing in the
> past several years. The same could not be said for the Poly Paks parts.
> Many of them were very obviously seconds and testing them before soldering
> if possible was important. For instance noticing your linear regulator is
> smoking hot while trying to power a single 7400 logic chip. Sometimes the
> part of the package just above the IC would go funny and you could actually
> see the magic smoke come out. :-)
>
> Pete
>
>
> On 7/14/23 22:26, Scott Hall via TriEmbed wrote:
>
> I've bought from a lot over the years...
> https://www.allelectronics.com/
>
> --
> Scott G. Hall
> scottghall1 at gmail.com
>
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