Date   : Wed, 07 Dec 2005 13:16:27 +0000
From   : Andrew Benham <adsb@...>
Subject: Re: Vanishing electronics suppliers

Jules Richardson wrote:
> Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:
> 
>> Has anybody else noticed how difficult it is getting to obtain
>> electronics supplies? 
> 
> 
> Yes. There's no commercial market for parts any more I suppose because 
> consumers just chuck stuff away and buy a replacement when something 
> breaks rather than getting the old one fixed.

That's not the fundamental problem - the hobbyist and repair
areas were but a small part of the traditional market.

The UK _used_ to have an electronics manufacturing industry
(before we resorted to sticking our badges on factored goods
fron the far east).  Heck, I used to work for UK companies
with factories in the UK making electronic goods/equipment.

Now that we don't manufacture anything any more, there's little
business for the electronics parts suppliers, and they either
give up or cut right back on their range of goods.

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Andrew Benham           adsb@...       
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