Hard to source parts...whaddayado?

[Technetium]

what do u guys do when the parts u need dont aren't carried by any of the bigger stores (Mouser Digikey Newark etc...) i also tried Surplus Sales of Nebraska & Circuit Speciallists, but no luck.

i need a set of pots (4) for the EQ section of my Bozak Mixer, & another pot for the Frequency Cutoff on my Filter Factory. i was able to figure out what part #'s i needed easily enough using Bourns' system, but no one seems to carry the models i need, nor have a cross for it either.

i tried asking Bourns for samples of the ones i need for the Bozak, though i doubt i'll get them.

anyone have any places to reccommend?

 

[soundguy]

if bourns makes it I think newark will order it for you. they also had a pretty extensive bourns selection but it may have been over a year since I opened a newark catalog. Try them, hopefully there isnt a huge minimum. group order...

dave

 

[Technetium]

yeah thats the thing...mouser had it listed too, but as a "non stocked" item w/ min orders of either 500 or 1000. (i forget)
i guess i'll just keep looking, i mean if they're being manufactured, then there has gotta be some way to get them, no?

i'm not holding my breath though.

thanks,
-dave

 

[mcs]

[quote author="Technetium"]i mean if they're being manufactured, then there has gotta be some way to get them, no?[/quote]
No. They are not manufactured unless somebody orders a box of them... Bourns has a lot of parts in their catalogue. That just means they can make them, not that they are making them.

Best regards,

Mikkel C. Simonsen

 

[gyraf]

I think the best solution in your case is to buy the pots as spare parts from the equipment manufacturer or places where they repair stuff like yours..

 

[Technetium]

thanks for the info guys.

unfortunately i can't get the parts as spare parts since bozak has been out of business for years & electrix says they are in the process of selling off the whole line & that parts are not available @ this time. :?

oh well...

guess i could just swap the frequenct cutoff pot w/ one of the other less used ones on the board (they're all the same value). as for the bozak, well, i guess i just wont play w/ the eq.

once again thanks for the heads up.
-dave

 

[Jonathan Hayward]

why don't you tell us the values, if it's just a couple, some charitable soul here might just have them to give away....

 

[Steve Jones]

I just repaired an Electrix Repeater for a customer who had smashed a couple of rotary encoders and a slider in a mishap. I had to painstakingly repair them with pins and epoxy as I couldn't get replacement parts. My best suggestion in this situation is to look for busted gear of other types that has salvagable parts, eg. E-mu Proteus 1's for example, broken ones are next to worthless, but have useful parts.