I just purchased $450 worth of Fair-Rite parts last week for our club. I
checked prices at Newark, Mouser,and Allied. Two weeks ago Allied had
lower prices than the others. Suddenly when I was ready to order, Allied
had removed Fair-Rite from their list and I think they no longer handle
that line. It is always possible that somehow there is a screw up in
their on line catalog. The prices from the others were essentially
identical. Mouser is a regular exibiter at HamCom convention in Dallas
and seems to have a number of ham employes so I chose them. I specified
the lowest shipping rate of UPS which was $25.25 for our order. When
they shipped they used second day UPS and said they would cover the
difference of $92.82-$25.25, a nice touch I think. They shipped the
same day I entered the order and we had the cores in 2 days.
73, Dan, N5AR
Jim Brown wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:09:13 +0200, alexeban wrote:
>
>
>> Yesss!
>> That's why I mentioned Bytemark: they market Amidon now!
>>
>
> Amidon doesn't MAKE these parts. They BUY stuff, put their own
> part numbers on it, and sell it at OBSCENE MARKUPS (typically 4-
> 5 times their cost).
>
> I've helped organize group purchases for several ham clubs
> (others have done the real purchasing and distribution work,
> I've done the pointing). Charlie is right -- study the Fair-Rite
> catalog (that's who actually MAKES the parts you want) and learn
> their part numbers. Or see Appendix One of my tutorial
>
> http://audiosystemsgroup.com/RFI-Ham.pdf
>
> for part numbers of some parts useful for chokes and
> suppression, AND a list of good industrial vendors in the US who
> sell at prices FAR lower than Amidon or Palomar or Bytemark.
> Those good vendors include Newark, Allied, Lodestone, and
> Kreiger.
>
> Last I heard, minimum order from the factory (Fair-Rite) was
> $500, and you MUST buy in box quantities. Their 2.4-inch toroids
> are packed 100 to the box.
>
> 73,
>
> Jim Brown K9YC
>
>
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