I got lost in here for over an hour, that's my nature of looking in the shop window going "oooh shiny". When you click on "crystal oscillators and ovens" and there are 79 options you know it's someone serious. They are in the middle of America but we have to suck up to Trump and import more murrican products don't we? Some of the prices are great too, 22,000 16 Volt eletrolytics for $2.50 for instance.
https://www.surplussales.com

Used their services at early 2000 to 2010 get some rare stuff. As fast shipping as from Rockauto, 2-3 days from states to europe, then 1-2weeks from local customs to my door....

I love our postal services...

yellowbeard wrote: ↑Sun Aug 17, 2025 8:53 pm I got lost in here for over an hour, that's my nature of looking in the shop window going "oooh shiny". When you click on "crystal oscillators and ovens" and there are 79 options you know it's someone serious. They are in the middle of America but we have to suck up to Trump and import more murrican products don't we? Some of the prices are great too, 22,000 16 Volt eletrolytics for $2.50 for instance.
https://www.surplussales.com

I just lost myself in that site for a while. I was astonished to see some of the prices for "butterfly" twin variable capacitors. I have some here that were the type I used to balance QQE04-40 twin valves, and that site suggests that they'd fetch $175 or more each! As I recall, I bought them in this country in the late 70s for about £2 each!

Back in those days, high power VHF transistors were an incredibly expensive proposition: I remember buying the 2N6084 for around £40 each in the late 70s. I could get more than twice as much power out of a twin-tetrode like the '6-40 for around £16 of parts - including the bottle!

How things have changed - we now have VHF FETs that behave like triode valves, with so much gain that we can drive them from a little BFG135 and get >200 Watts!