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Default Maplin meltdown

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Andrew Gabriel wrote:
Yes that was stupid - all the stores did that. Who the hell wants
to buy a bag of 200 8.2 ohm resistors.


I buy resistors by the hundred. Rapid were selling the 0.6w metal oxide
type I like for about 1p each by the 100. Maplin at about the same time
were charging 35p each. One reason I stopped using them. ;-)

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