Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In the UK, Ebay can be a good source of these. I got a box of 10,000
1n4148 for pennies - they'd got slightly bent so no use for automated
assembly.

I've never heard of anything being "slightly bent", I thought that was
like a "little bit pregnant". Either they are bent or not. :-)

Geoff.

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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel N3OWJ/4X1GM