Maplin discontinue small Ali Boxes

[MrBungle]

RS/bitsbox next day - don't have to go out then

[crusher19860138]

Maplin was at it's best in the 80's, stopped using them about 10 years ago, overpriced and poor range for me.

[Bazz4CQJ]

Originally Posted by Restoration73

If you still need that style of box, these are available;
https://www.rapidonline.com/retex-mi...losures-530145

Those must be 2 or 3 times more expensive that the old Maplin products. Sadly, I've reached an age when many things seem ludicrously over-priced.

[MrBungle]

I find many prices objectional.

On a positive note, I bought 50x BC547 transistors from rapid for £0.94. I remember paying more than that for two 2n2222's from Tandy! Also after reading a thread on EEVblog, I bought a DMM for £2.68 from CPC and it's not terrible.

You win some, you lose some.

[Chris55000]

Hi!

I can remember the days of going into my local Tandy's in Morecambe when TWO half-watt carbon film resistors in folded cardboard sleeves were £1.95!!!

I wanted to have a go at building EPE's "Needle Scratch Blanker" from Jan 2000 (PCB still available!) and looked on the dreaded eBay for the smaller bits & got 3400 E24 1/4W metal-film resistors for about £24.50 - that's 20 pieces of EVERY E24 value from 1 ohm to 10M!

You couldn't hope to match that retail!

Another thing that's getting a pain to find is single-sided PCB pins/Veropins!

Sadly, I've reached an age when many things seem ludicrously over-priced.

Sad to relate, so have i! (55!)

Chris Williams