Best place for components?

[The Wraith]

Where is the best place to buy components?
I have three acid damaged Bally MPU's and after reading some of the posts, I fancy trying to breathe some life into them.

 

[Carl Spiby]

Maplin or RS.

 

[xenon325i]

RS is the only real place - the odd bit you can get from Maplins but they concentrate mostly now on selling Taiwanise crap to play with in the garden.

 

[DrPinball]

Farnell also - I use Farnell and RS for all my components. I suspect they both have minimum order of £20 to get free delivery.

However, you may struggle to get smaller quantities of some components e.g. capacitors, resistors, in which case Maplin can be a better option.

 

[xenon325i]

Yes Farnell (now CPC (??)) are good too.

 

[DrPinball]

I think CPC is the friendly face of Farnell - certainly both exist.

 

[Wizcat]

Since no-one has yet made it really clear:

RS Components: http://uk.rs-online.com/web/
Farnell : http://uk.farnell.com/

The only downside to the huge retailers is that its sometimes difficult to find the one thing you need from the zillions presented to you
So a very worthy alternative focusing on the pinball bits then is : http://www.pinballmania.co.uk/

 

[Moonraker]

It's a lot cheaper/easier buying complete replacement kits from places like Great Plains Electronics or Big Daddy.

http://www.greatplainselectronics.com/Category-42.asp

http://www.bigdaddy-enterprises.com/

If you don't wish to wait for the couple of days journey from over the pond then you will find that Andy also sells them at Pinball Mania...

 

[The Wraith]

Thanks chaps, being impatient I'll try from this side of the water first, I can't afford an alltek so I'm hoping for the best with a repair.

 

[Johnnyo]

Usually I find eBay a good source for components if you know what parts you are after specifically, failing that Andy @(PM) or Phil @(PH)
carry the majority of items you will probably need.

 

[highjon]

I use Cricklewood electronics for the more obscure components, prices are good also.
http://www.cricklewoodelectronics.com/Cricklewood/home.php