Where are people ordering parts from nowadays?

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Where are people ordering parts from nowadays?

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I haven't done any serious building in years, but I was cleaning up my basement and I found a bunch of silkscreened enclosures and PCBs for one of my pedals and started putting them together today. I need a few odds and ends, caps, switches, pots, LEDs, etc. It looks like I can get almost all of what I need from Small Bear, though one item appears to be mistakenly priced (10 ceramic caps for $100. I emailed them).

Who else is selling pedal oriented parts? I can go to Mouser, but it ends up taking longer to put the order together than doing the actual work, sometimes, due to number of options.
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i’ve gotten knobs and switches from lovemyswitches.com. they also carry general pedal parts.
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I was super bummed when Small Bear was going out of business awhile back but stoked when SynthCube took over. While the transition was happening I started ordering from Stompbox Parts and Amplified Parts for different things. I also have always ordered from Love My Switches.

After Small Bear got back up and running I placed a small order for some LED bezels and it seemed forever for them to be shipped to me which kind of annoyed me. Sure it's much faster now but I pretty much get most of my stuff from Stompbox parts and LMS as the prices seem a little better and I am usually buying sorta in bulk to do runs of things instead of buying parts for one or two specific pedals I am building for myself.

Mouser used to be my favorite but they carry a fraction of what used to but still order from them time to time. Tayda is also popular for DIY as it's super cheap but I will usually only buy box caps, sometimes resistors and PT2399s from them. They also UV print without minimums which is really nice.
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Thanks all.

As long as Small Bear fixes the quirk that makes a $.10 part go to $10 in the cart, I found most of what I wanted, except for the knob I like, which comes from Jameco.
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Being based in Europe, most of the times I order from Musikding in Germany. Sometimes I also order from Banzai music, but only if I don't really find what I need on Musikding.
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