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#289829 - 19/11/11 11:27 AM
Re: Volume pot new fault?
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Jocko
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Registered: 06/07/11
Posts: 1023
Loc: Kirkcaldy, Fife
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I really must check out Maplins a bit more, clearly I could save a few quid on things like capacitors and resistors!
As I keep saying, a capacitor is a capacitor and a resistor is a resistor. All that changes is the value, tolerance and either voltage or power capability. Look on Farnell or RS Components sites and you will notice not a huge price difference between cheapest and dearest once these factors have been taken into account. Take it from me. I have worked in electronics from 1966 to 2008 !
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#289830 - 19/11/11 12:23 PM
Re: Volume pot new fault?
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Oldjono
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Registered: 15/09/09
Posts: 852
Loc: Dorset
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Our local Maplins is brilliant. They are posting me three caps that cost £0.51p with free postage and it will cost them £0.42p for the process, not including the envelope. Why? Because they were out of stock. Fantastic service. They are a proper shop with real service and values. We could save loads using them, even in favour of the Ebay shop which might be coming to a high street near you...
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#289836 - 19/11/11 07:00 PM
Re: Volume pot new fault?
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Megi
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Registered: 08/07/11
Posts: 1271
Loc: Lincolnshire
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Great service from your local Maplins as you say Oldjono - wish I could say the same about mine... the staff do not seem to know anything about electronics. A case in point, I needed some very narrow single core coax cable - I spy something that looks possible, but impossible to see if it is coax, ask girl in store, she confidently answers a no (though somehow I don't think she actually knows what coax cable is...). I buy a couple of metres of something else instead. Later I go back in and buy a metre of the stuff I originally asked about, get home - it is in fact coax cable!
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Too late to stop me putting Russian PIO caps in my strat build, doubt I be buying any more though! Ah well, a fool and his money as they say...
