On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 05:32:13 -0600, wrote:
What is the best place for a hobbiest to buy small amounts of electronic
parts?

A really funky web site is http://www.danssmallpartsandkits.net/

I've ordered parts from "Dan" and never had "issues".
Lots of old descrete parts.
It can take a bit to dig through all he has listed.
(He definitely does NOT pay anyone to maintain that web site. :-)

Jonesy
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