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[TheBoy]

Being desperate for a 2.2M resistor before tomorrow morning, I thought I'd try Craplins. Yup, that desperate

Mrs TB is going to Banbury to get some bits from the dealer, so thought Craplins at Banbury would be ideal. Simples. Easy peasy. No sweat. What could go wrong?


Well, the fact they don't sell 2.2M resistors is what goes wrong  .

OK, chill, see what other values are available, make up a resistor network (bit tight for space, so max of 2). How about a 1M and a 1.2M in series? Nope, Craplin at Chavtown don't stock either.  OK, a pair of 4M7 in parallel? Nope, you guessed it.



In the name of all that is holy, FFS, I'm not interested in disco lights, overpriced computer junk or cheap radio controlled toys. I just want some rather electronic components 

I tried calling, in case the website was wrong, but the Amoeba Brain who answered was too busy revising for his 12+ exam. rather retards, the lot of them  . I hate Banbury, and all who live there  . Bloody inbreds, the lot of them 

[Jimbob]

prob have to buy their giant size bag of mixed resistors and hope for the best!

[TheBoy]

prob have to buy their giant size bag of mixed resistors and hope for the best!

They only go up to 100k, or something like that.

I have sourced some from a local university, which will be delivered to my door the pub tonight   

[Entwood]

Oh for the days of "Tandy's" when you could just drop in and buy electronic bits and bobs so easily ..   

I bought a solar panel for the 'van some years ago very cheap as "not working" ... 3 diodes at 13p each and its been as good as gold...  and the guy in tandy's even decoded the "old" ones for me before selling me the new ones ..

[TheBoy]

Tandys went the way Craplin are going. More interested in selling tat than staying in their core business.  I suspect they will end up going the same way as Tandys.

[aaronjb]

Tandys went the way Craplin are going. More interested in selling tat than staying in their core business.  I suspect they will end up going the same way as Tandys.

Trouble is, I can't imagine there is any real demand for a shop that sells electronic parts.. how many people do you know who routinely think "Oh, I just need a 2M2 resistor?"..

Years ago there were more 'hobbyists' around - these days everything is throw-away and with the advent of cheap, powerful computers and programming languages designed for monkeys (Visual Basic, I'm looking at you) nobody has any desire to understand the fundamental underpinnings of electronics or computing

[fiend61]

RS components----- the best place for electronics i find     plus next day delivery 

http://uk.rs-online.com/web/?cm_mmc=UK-PPC-0411-_-google-_-0_RS_Brand-_-RS%20components_Exact&gclid=CICYsZCNg6oCFQ0OfAod3G4YzQ

mind you i think a pack of 5000 is abit overkill 

http://uk.rs-online.com/web/c/?searchTerm=2.2m+resistor&sra=oss

[TheBoy]

Tandys went the way Craplin are going. More interested in selling tat than staying in their core business.  I suspect they will end up going the same way as Tandys.

Trouble is, I can't imagine there is any real demand for a shop that sells electronic parts.. how many people do you know who routinely think "Oh, I just need a 2M2 resistor?"..

Years ago there were more 'hobbyists' around - these days everything is throw-away and with the advent of cheap, powerful computers and programming languages designed for monkeys (Visual Basic, I'm looking at you) nobody has any desire to understand the fundamental underpinnings of electronics or computing

You'll be off the Christmas card list if you dis VB

Like many "Of a certain age", I started with Sinclair machines, and thus quickly went on to Z80 assembly.  I still enjoy a bit of MASM even now, but for Windows, life is too short

VB has a place in my programming collection, as its great for 'cheap and cheerful' utility knock-ups. Wouldn't be without it in the collection TBH.


My trouble, I wrote, many, many years ago, a stock system for my brother. It satrted out as a MS Basic PDS 7.1 demo to show him what computers could do for him, then moved to VB1 when that came out. And has been updated over the last 20yrs into an unmanagable mess  (LOL, mirroring the mess MS got in with VB pre .NET), stepping through all of MS's VB versions up to VB6.

Now I'm in a situation where I don't want to rewrite from scratch, but VB.NET says it has too many issues to import, so stuck in VB6 (which, incidentally, the IDE doesn't run properly in Win7)


Although I am pretty reasonable at most common general purpose languages (except Perl, bummer seeing as that is what this forum uses ), Basic variants do tend to be my language of choice if starting something new on Windows.

[Auto Addict]

Tandys went the way Craplin are going. More interested in selling tat than staying in their core business.  I suspect they will end up going the same way as Tandys.

Trouble is, I can't imagine there is any real demand for a shop that sells electronic parts.. how many people do you know who routinely think "Oh, I just need a 2M2 resistor?"..

Years ago there were more 'hobbyists' around - these days everything is throw-away and with the advent of cheap, powerful computers and programming languages designed for monkeys (Visual Basic, I'm looking at you) nobody has any desire to understand the fundamental underpinnings of electronics or computing

You'll be off the Christmas card list if you dis VB

Like many "Of a certain age", I started with Sinclair machines, and thus quickly went on to Z80 assembly.  I still enjoy a bit of MASM even now, but for Windows, life is too short

VB has a place in my programming collection, as its great for 'cheap and cheerful' utility knock-ups. Wouldn't be without it in the collection TBH.


My trouble, I wrote, many, many years ago, a stock system for my brother. It satrted out as a MS Basic PDS 7.1 demo to show him what computers could do for him, then moved to VB1 when that came out. And has been updated over the last 20yrs into an unmanagable mess  (LOL, mirroring the mess MS got in with VB pre .NET), stepping through all of MS's VB versions up to VB6.

Now I'm in a situation where I don't want to rewrite from scratch, but VB.NET says it has too many issues to import, so stuck in VB6 (which, incidentally, the IDE doesn't run properly in Win7)


Although I am pretty reasonable at most common general purpose languages (except Perl, bummer seeing as that is what this forum uses ), Basic variants do tend to be my language of choice if starting something new on Windows.

I started off life with COBOL & PLAN(for ICL 1900 series machines).

Used to like VB in my later life.

[TheBoy]

RS components----- the best place for electronics i find     plus next day delivery 

http://uk.rs-online.com/web/?cm_mmc=UK-PPC-0411-_-google-_-0_RS_Brand-_-RS%20components_Exact&gclid=CICYsZCNg6oCFQ0OfAod3G4YzQ

mind you i think a pack of 5000 is abit overkill 

http://uk.rs-online.com/web/c/?searchTerm=2.2m+resistor&sra=oss

I normally use Farnell, due to range, price and speed of delivery.  But in this case I was desperate.


Maybe if Craplin had stayed mostly mail order, they could have rivalled the mail order companies, as they once did.  But instead, they expanded into retail, now sell overpriced junk, and nothing useful.  To be honest, can't see them lasting more than a few more years before going up the Gary Glitter.



Although to answer aaronjb's comment about components, if this is/was their core business, given the cost price of the stock, and the minimal shelve space required, and the massive markup (they want 24p for a resistor ), I'm still shocked and stunned they don't stock them.  Maybe Banburians are too inbred to have the intelligence to play with electronics  :-/

Had they have had them, I would have purchases a fair bit more stuff that I was not in a hurry for, but now Farnell's will get part of that order, and Ebuyer/Dabs/Nova will likely get the computer parts...

[feeutfo]

I get the feeling this is either my fault. Or mine and Lazytinkers fault...? 

[Jimbob]

I get the feeling this is either my fault. Or mine and Lazytinkers fault...? 

Gaypod adaptor sprung to mind.....

[TheBoy]

Or mine and Lazytinkers fault...? 

Nope, just your fault. Stop trying to share the blame with a defenceless cripple.

[aaronjb]

Tandys went the way Craplin are going. More interested in selling tat than staying in their core business.  I suspect they will end up going the same way as Tandys.

Trouble is, I can't imagine there is any real demand for a shop that sells electronic parts.. how many people do you know who routinely think "Oh, I just need a 2M2 resistor?"..

Years ago there were more 'hobbyists' around - these days everything is throw-away and with the advent of cheap, powerful computers and programming languages designed for monkeys (Visual Basic, I'm looking at you) nobody has any desire to understand the fundamental underpinnings of electronics or computing

You'll be off the Christmas card list if you dis VB

Like many "Of a certain age", I started with Sinclair machines, and thus quickly went on to Z80 assembly.  I still enjoy a bit of MASM even now, but for Windows, life is too short

VB has a place in my programming collection, as its great for 'cheap and cheerful' utility knock-ups. Wouldn't be without it in the collection TBH.


My trouble, I wrote, many, many years ago, a stock system for my brother. It satrted out as a MS Basic PDS 7.1 demo to show him what computers could do for him, then moved to VB1 when that came out. And has been updated over the last 20yrs into an unmanagable mess  (LOL, mirroring the mess MS got in with VB pre .NET), stepping through all of MS's VB versions up to VB6.

Now I'm in a situation where I don't want to rewrite from scratch, but VB.NET says it has too many issues to import, so stuck in VB6 (which, incidentally, the IDE doesn't run properly in Win7)


Although I am pretty reasonable at most common general purpose languages (except Perl, bummer seeing as that is what this forum uses ), Basic variants do tend to be my language of choice if starting something new on Windows.

I agree VB is (or was, last time I used it) useful for quick mockups or proof of concepts.. the trouble was, those tended to very quickly become 'proper' applications, and then you ended up chasing your tail trying to find some obscure bug due to some obscure interaction of components that wasn't being fully exposed by VB.

Well, I did, at least

I haven't used the new .NET variants though, aside from a quick dabble in C#, so I can't really comment on those. I just have an enduring hatred of it from my VB6 days.

I admit, I wrote some fairly hefty applications in BASIC though, right back to QuickBASIC.. but I'd still rather be working in C or a C-alike - although these days I'm stuck with PHP & Perl. I do quite like Perl..


You're right though, I wouldn't try writing a Windows application in assembler, that would be tantamount to suicide 

[TheBoy]

I get the feeling this is either my fault. Or mine and Lazytinkers fault...? 

Gaypod adaptor sprung to mind.....

Mixer.

Uphill Gardener gayPod thingie is a longer story that I'll bored gayboy with when I see him, as there is quite a lot of damage to it from a failed regulator that went short, shoving around 11v up some bits designed for 5v...