Old Muntz TV for sale Locally to me, Should I pick it up?

[vortalexfan]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

I honestly have probably never hit the 800 part order threshold, but I do try to make my orders as few and big as I can to maximize price break and shipping ecconomy (read that minimize cost per item in my stock).

It isn't necessary to hit any of the volume price breaks... however planning buying to do as much of that as practical for you saves you money in the long run.

Not to sound rude but complaining about spending $8 shipping to get a single 10 cents part here in a week and prefering to spend $1 on a local part that should cost 10 cents seems like a logically conflicted argument. So a cheaper alternative was suggested.

When it comes to anything new I am as cheap as they come, and proud of it!

Well the problem is that with digikey and Mouser, in order to get free shipping you have to make a minimum $80 order, and none of my orders ever reach that minimum.

Plus when I get old radios, record players or TVs to fix up, I never know what value of capacitors are going to be in it until I open it up or look up the service manual, and seeing as half the time when I get an old radio or record player from someone I don't know what the model is until it's in my hands.

So it's kind of hard to make a bulk order of capacitors when half the time I don't even know what I'm going to need until I get the radio, record player or tv.

So to me just ordering the capacitors once I know what I need makes more sense, seeing as no two radio, record player or TV circuits are the same when it comes to what parts they will need it's kind of hard to know what parts to order in bulk and what not to order in bulk.