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Offline Jon86Topic starter

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SMD Component source in the UK with cheap/free shipping?
« on: December 23, 2013, 10:43:34 pm »
I'm going to be building a few SMD projects in the following few months, and I need to order a load of passives and connectors etc. I've been looking at RS, Digikey, all the big players, but they all charge ridiculous money for shipping, £12 for a couple of 0402 resistors?! You've gotta be shittin' me!
Any recommendations?
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Re: SMD Component source in the UK with cheap/free shipping?
« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2013, 10:45:30 pm »
Farnell (£3.95 until you pass £20, then free), Rapid (don't recall, free after £30 or £35, very cheap resistors..).
 

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Re: SMD Component source in the UK with cheap/free shipping?
« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2013, 11:01:30 pm »
Looks like it's £4 on Rapid, not too bad I guess, but not great either...
Maybe I'll just go the whole way and buy an assorted box of 0805s or something.
Thanks anyway :)
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Re: SMD Component source in the UK with cheap/free shipping?
« Reply #3 on: December 23, 2013, 11:45:59 pm »
There are plenty of people selling reasonable SMD resistor, capacitor and transistor kits on ebay. I'd far rather have a kit about rather than order specific values until I needed to buy a reel.

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Re: SMD Component source in the UK with cheap/free shipping?
« Reply #4 on: December 27, 2013, 01:10:24 pm »
eBay has a lot of sellers in the UK.
 

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Re: SMD Component source in the UK with cheap/free shipping?
« Reply #5 on: December 27, 2013, 03:44:58 pm »
eBay has a lot of sellers in the UK.

I buy almost everything off ebay, but for very small amounts of items, it's not ideal...
It's probably what I'll end up doing anyway though.
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