Online dealers without excessive shipping costs or minimum order?

[analogix]

Are there any good sources for electronic components out there which don't put on excessive shipping costs (typical when I (living in Norway) order from the States where shipping is usually astronomical for some reason) or a minimum order as most of the large, but trustworthy companies out there operate with.
I've been warned enough times to stay away from eBay or similar sites if I don't want to risk fake semiconductors or capacitors, resistors with lower ratings than stated etc. In other words: I want quality, authentic components, but without the excessive additional costs.
"What you see is what you get" kind of stuff (cables, connectors etc.) is another matter and I have no problem ordering these from China via eBay.
How's Tayda for instance? I hear they're reasonably priced, but do they deliver genuine products?

Finally, I see that some of the parts I'm looking for are either obsolete or hard to get hold of these days:
7406 (TTL hex inverter)
LM78L82ACZ) (+8.2V voltage regulator)
PC-900 (opto-isolator, or better performance pin-pin compatible)

Suggestions as to where to buy these from with the above criteria?
(I couldn't find either at Tayda)

[JPortici]

RS components?
Farnell?
TME?

[JanJansen]

Hi, i also order Tayda for some parts.
Those ceramic capacitors are very thin & fragile, i dont buy them anymore just to be sure.
They have these grey film capacitors in exotic values, its the only shop i know with values like 27nF, 18nF, 5,6nF etc,
i would rather have Wima brand from normal shop, i need those values for cloning vintage gear.
They also have alot of nice knobs, even pink color.
Good shop for audio freaks.

Order 1 time big with all value resistors in a normal shop and pay the shipping, then you can make small exotic orders for each project.
Buy bags of 100 at least, i normally order resistors per 1000 so i can give some away also and still be cheaper.

Edit : i have the Sharp PC900 optocoupler 6 pin DIP, only i cant remember prices been so high ?

[lacek]

RS components?
Farnell?
TME?

Out of these I have bought from TME and they ship almost immediately after the transfer is made. I can also say that they pack stuff appropriately no matter what the order size. But you have to buy some stuff per 100s. - like most small passive elements. I think this is what the OP does not want (no minimal order).
 

[Chris Wilson]

TME are good for toroidal mains transformers, even though they are heavy and I am in the UK, and as said above, they ship very quickly, with excellent, appropriate packaging, and with very reasonable P&P charges. But being in the UK I mostly buy from RS. Does anyone know of a reputable company that does a pack of say 1000 each preferred value 1% resistors without ordering every value independently (I am idle...)

[james_s]

Shipping to most of the rest of the world from the USA is ridiculously expensive, I don't know why but it isn't the fault of the dealers. That will pretty much rule out all US dealers.

[analogix]

That's true unfortunately, but it also goes for most other large online component dealer. Most of them ship with DHL, Fedex or other courier services whereas I'd be happy to get a padded envelope in the mail using regular postal mail services.

Added shipping costs also means added import duties/taxes (because the content value AND shipping costs are all included!).

Back in the 80s when I was building a lot I used to order from most of the well known UK dealers such as Maplin, RS, Rapid, Bonex to name a few and shipping was nothing fancy and overly expensive. Everything was better back in the good old days of course 

[endevor100]

I'm a big fan of www.arrow.com. They've shipped me $0.23 of resistors for free before, but I'm in the US. They claim to have lots of European offices so it might be worth a look to see if they're a more economic option for you.

[aiq25]

That's true unfortunately, but it also goes for most other large online component dealer. Most of them ship with DHL, Fedex or other courier services whereas I'd be happy to get a padded envelope in the mail using regular postal mail services.

I'm taking a guess based on my experience of selling on eBay... USPS is not that reliable and a lot of sellers (not eBay sellers in particular but small store owners) prefer to ship via UPS or FedEx for higher reliability. All the companies I have worked at never use USPS for the same reason, we always shipped parts and whatnot via UPS or FedEx. Using a better reliability service usually means less hassle... Although now that I think about it, Digikey and Mouser started using USPS (although their services are tracked)....... So I could be wrong.

[ZeTeX]

Arrow! Free DHL shipping worldwidr, from 0.01$.

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[Cervisia]

7406 (TTL hex inverter)

Plain TTL was obsolete decades ago; it was replaced by LS (low-power Schottky) with the same speed. So search for 74LS06.

Do you really need the high-voltage outputs? Consider replacing it with some CMOS family (HC or AC are common, AHC and LVC are more modern).

LM78L82ACZ) (+8.2V voltage regulator)

If that specific output voltage is not available, consider the LM317L.

PC-900 (opto-isolator, or better performance pin-pin compatible)

The PC900 had an unusual pinout, but it was a clone of the H11L1, which is still very common.

[edavid]

7406 (TTL hex inverter)

Plain TTL was obsolete decades ago; it was replaced by LS (low-power Schottky) with the same speed. So search for 74LS06.

SN7406 is still in production.