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emeritus · 15th May 2019, 8:13 pm

Our department was the last to leave Marconi's Waterhouse Lane site. When Marconi Marine moved out, they abandoned their stores and said we could help ourselves, so I have resistors, capacitors and reels of wire too numerous to mention, as well as thousands of small metric and unified screws and hundreds of assorted 1970's vintage semiconductors and 1 1/4" glass fuses. I am never going to use them all but I have plentry of room in the loft. Helping out forum members from time to time with unobtainium bits has helped to justify keeping my stuff.

I also have a small collection of phono plugs, jack plugs in 1/4", 3.5 and 2.5 mm sizes, mono and stereo, and DC power plugs and sockets for making up ad hoc leads.

15th May 2019, 8:13 pm	#7
emeritus Dekatron Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Brentwood, Essex, UK. Posts: 5,345	Re: What componenets do you keep in stock for repairs etc. Our department was the last to leave Marconi's Waterhouse Lane site. When Marconi Marine moved out, they abandoned their stores and said we could help ourselves, so I have resistors, capacitors and reels of wire too numerous to mention, as well as thousands of small metric and unified screws and hundreds of assorted 1970's vintage semiconductors and 1 1/4" glass fuses. I am never going to use them all but I have plentry of room in the loft. Helping out forum members from time to time with unobtainium bits has helped to justify keeping my stuff. I also have a small collection of phono plugs, jack plugs in 1/4", 3.5 and 2.5 mm sizes, mono and stereo, and DC power plugs and sockets for making up ad hoc leads. Last edited by emeritus; 15th May 2019 at 8:27 pm.