Old transistor radio parts tv#

It serves as a quick guide for finding elusive parts since many of these oddities are noted as described in the next paragraph. This is a condensed list compiled from all of the catalogs that I had on hand somewhere around the year 2001 or 2002. My apologies if this takes up too much forum space.

Just roll with the punches and do a bit of research on names that don't work well. Understand that a lot of these companies may be long out of business addresses and phone numbers may have changed URLs may be no good anymore. If I had to do it over using the magazines available, I would have nearly the number of vendors that I do. This list is darned near 14 years old now. You have to often buy 2 or 3 pieces of each item to get a stock of parts going.Ĭontributing editor emeritus in Poptronics magazine, R.I.P. The point is, a lot of these companies deal in things like that, often as surplus - once it's gone, it's gone forever. I did have it posted either on this forum or a general electronics forum also, but finding it would be difficult, so I just may post it again. PM me and I'll try to find that list (it may be out of date enough now to be worthless, but much may still be valid) and send it to your e-mail address as a. At one time a few years ago, I had posted the names, addresses and general idea of the handles parts of all the companies I could find. I much prefer those over on-line or CD versions as they're faster to thumb through. In some cases, they'll have a web site where you can click to order a paper catalog.

Old transistor radio parts tv#

Go to the electronics hobbyist magazines ( Nuts & Volts is the only one being published in the U.S.) and obtain all the catalogs offered by the surplus and TV houses you can find: MCM Electronics, Dalbani, Electronics Express, etc. Although the Internet and on-line catalogs seem to have taken over the world of electronics, there's still paper copies available.