What's the problem with Digikey/Mouser?
Even here in Japan I get free 3-5 day shipping when I fill my cart to $50 worth of stuff, which isn't hard to do at all....
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Because it's 20 Euros flat fee from what people said, but when I did a dry run, simulating an order, at the very last step of the ordering process out of the blue they said "There is an extra 10 Euros fee for France".
So 30 Euros of fees for 5 or 10 Euros of caps, erm no, I am not that rich.
Weird.
When I go to Digikey.fr, once I add around the magic US$50 to the cart it tells me I get free shipping. I didn't go through to selecting the shipping method though as I don't have a French address to try.
I have only a few caps to order, I am nowhere near the 50 USD or Euros mark ![Undecided :-\](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/undecided.gif)
Aaahhh, well you're just not trying hard enough! Time to buy some stock parts!
haha
I do plan on stocking some components to progressively replace my old salvaged components with fresh ones, with intact/long leads and have a bit of every value. But, money.
Bottom line is I got fired last August, my last paycheck is long gone and with only 1100 Euros per month worth of unemployment benefit, it doens't even pay for the bills.
I needed the time to do the most urgent jobs in the house, so I can live in it. But now it's done, I have run out of money, simple... so it's time to start searching for some job....
... then I will be able to buy some stock of caps and resistors and whatnot. But for now, spending 60 Euros for a few caps is just complete suicide. I am not suicidal. Very depressed, yes. but suicidal not just yet...
The yellow axial caps I know I can afford to stock a bit on them because they are used all over the place when restoring old glowing Tek instruments.
So I don't mind if the Ebay sellers sell them in lots of 5 or 10, because the price per cap is reasonable and I will always make use of the extra caps sooner or later.
Once I get a job I will buy a complete 1R to 10M E24 metal film 1% resistor kit....
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In just the past few weeks working on my old TE I had at least 3 times failed to have the proper value resistor, and was stuck, having to either make a montage of several resistors to get something close enough.... or sometimes even that, was not possible
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One can't do much without at least a complete resistor kit in his lab
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