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Offline StarkRGTopic starter

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Need help sourcing replacement capacitors in Australia
« on: May 07, 2019, 11:59:07 am »
So I'm in the middle of restoring a couple of old Macs (a Powerbook 180c and a Mac 512ke). I've gone through and figured out which capacitors I needed, however when I went on to digikey to order them the shipping cost ended up being about the same as all of the capacitors I was buying (about $20). I'd rather not have to spend twice as much if I can at all help it. Of course, it doesn't help that I'm trying to buy in extremely low quantities (I think the most of any given item I need is six). Is there a source that ships to Australia for less than $20?
 

Offline jeremy

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Re: Need help sourcing replacement capacitors in Australia
« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2019, 12:05:55 pm »
RS is the only one that will ship for free. element14 is $45 min for free shipping, digikey and mouser are $60 for free shipping.
 

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Re: Need help sourcing replacement capacitors in Australia
« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2019, 12:49:36 pm »
If you list the part details, someone may know where to find them locally.
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Re: Need help sourcing replacement capacitors in Australia
« Reply #3 on: May 07, 2019, 12:56:36 pm »
Depending on how much SMD stuff you do or are likely to do Sample Books of components are not a bad way to go for passives at least. Add to them some small quantities of common ones when you are ordering from the usual named suspects works well for me.

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Through hole Caps www.rockby.com.au are a good mob.
« Last Edit: May 07, 2019, 12:58:11 pm by beanflying »
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