Learn Where to Buy Circuit Bending Components

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AMANDA CLAIRE: All right. So one thing about components is you have to be careful when you're shopping for them because it's really easy to spend a lot of money and you don't necessarily want to spend a lot of money and you don't need to. I won't name any names but your neighborhood electronic store is likely to sell a single switch like this for maybe $4.00, you know an audio jack, you might get two for $3.00 or something like that. So they're not exactly cheap; potentiometers, a couple of dollars a piece. So you know, your local neighborhood electronic store may be convenient but tends to be pricey if you're going to be buying components one by one, I mean everything I've got on the table here would easily be a few hundred dollars okay if you bought it at your local electronic store. One way to save money is--there's few ways to save money. One is to find an electronics wholesaler, and again I won't name any names, but if you get online and you kind of maybe ask around people you know who might be electricians or build computers or be into electronics, you can just kinda Google it online like wholesale electronic components and you'll be able to find like let's say a bag of a bunch of switches like this at a lot less than it would cost for you to buy them one by one at your local electronic store. eBay is sometimes is and sometimes isn't a good place to buy things. In the case of electronics components, eBay can sometimes be a good place to find them; a lot of times you'll find like lots of kind of close out mix and match miscellaneous electronics components and you know for maybe 20 bucks you can get a big bag filled with switches and potentiometers and jacks and all kinds of things. You just have to kinda look for it; you have to know where to look. I've got these on eBay and this is something I don't know where else I would have gotten them. These are--this is a bank of switches that was I guess intended to be used in like an organ, like kind of an electronic church organ or something, and so you can see here's the back and here's all the soldered terminals here on the back of this kind of switch bank and here's the front, really cool, so I mean I didn't even really think about that I can even have something like this until I kind of was searching eBay for switches and I've found it so. The main point is, is that if you're doing a project and you only need like one switch or one potentiometer or something, maybe you can you know give in to the temptation and go to your local electronic store and buy that one part or those three parts for two or three bucks a piece. But if you're really going to get into this, you need to start looking into a wholesale source of these components; otherwise, you're going to spend a lot of money and eBay is one good place to look for it and there are a lot of companies that have websites and an online presence that you can find if you just kinda look for them.

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