Next day? I once had them deliver a timer relay to me, 50 or 60 miles away, in 90 minutes! They used a motorcycle courier and delivery did cost three or four times the cost of the timer, but it allowed me to install the relay while I was on site, so that they could restart the production line, knowing that the fault would not keep randomly recurring.
Well that's where prototype boards come in handy, and of couse for making prototypes
For me breadboards are wooden where you push in a tack/drawing pin or other 'node' then solder your components to it. So I try to stick to the usage of the word protoboard for describing such things.
Not really although the first breadboard I used at school was a very light material that you stuck brass drawing pins into then soldered the comonents to them. OK for teaching the basics as were the 1st proto-board I used which was an S-Dec. Can't remember why the were called S-decs though.
In article snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com, jkn <jkn snipped-for-privacy@nicorp.f.co.uk> scribeth thus
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Sadly this shop burnt down on Monday 15th July 2019.
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It had been closed for some months but had been steadily running down before that. Ironically it could in many peoples opinion have prospered when Maplin closed its shops in Cambridge, but the owner, the son of the founder Harry Gee did not seem to want to carry on. Stock ran down and he never replaced it, and in the last months it was open it wall full of cardboard boxes stacked up in the shop. Probably old now obsolete stuff from the upper floors.
The shop was getting very tatty both inside and out, with stuff in the window fading due to prolonged exposure to sunlight. Harry Gee must be turning in his grave, in the 1960's it was a Mecca for radio hams and hi-fi enthusiasts, Mr Gee always smartly dressed and smoking a small cigar
Farnell have been listening. I had complained about exactly that problem and last week I had an email from them asking whether I would like future invoices, statements etc to be emailed directly to me as pdfs. Their stock levels do seem to be lower than in the past and they are no longer always cheaper than RS. Mouser and Digikey provide excellent service and generally have better stock levels than the usual UK companies. John
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