Where can I find bulk resistors?

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alockrem

Joined Dec 31, 2009
14
I am new to electronics. I have only created a very small projects so far, but would like for that to increase in 2010 (Happy New Year btw).

I find myself returning to Radio Shack quite often for each project I work on. I would like to just buy a large collection of resistors and any other inexpensive components to reduce my trips to Radio Shack.

1) Where can I buy a bulk collection of resistors? My guess was ebay, but everything I find in bulk is just for a single ohm rating.

2) What else fits into the "inexpensive components" category?

Thank you for any help.
 

russ_hensel

Joined Jan 11, 2009
825
Slow shipping, and some negative reviews, but http://www.futurlec.com/ sells 1% resistors in packs of 10 for about 1 cent. If you are buying a lot, what sort of work are you doing? For example for uc work 10 k pull up resistors and 220 ohm led current limiting resistors are very useful. For other sort of work you might choose other values.
 

Thread Starter

alockrem

Joined Dec 31, 2009
14
Bill - I turned on the ability for other members to send me email messages. I don't know if that is the same as PMs, but I couldn't find a setting specific to PMs.

Russ - I'm just learning about electronics. I don't have many projects in mind and the ones I'm working on could be built by any elementary school child for a science fair project.

The one thing I have determined is it takes a long time to get things shipped from hong-kong and I don't want to drive to the store 3 or 4 times per project because I don't have basic components available to me.

Thank you both for your help.
 
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