Best place to buy valves and components?

[matthew2456]

Anybody got any recommendations on a cheap / reliable supplier of components either in the UK or who will deliever to the UK?

Also somewhere who supplys transformers.

Thanks very much

Matthew

 

[sreten]

http://www.maplin.co.uk/

has some valve stuff,

/sreten.

 

[matthew2456]

they have 3 transformers and a £700 kit! Im after some tubes and different transforemrs

 

[sorenj07]

for tubes, www.tubedepot.com can't be beat (no affiliation)

 

[rfbrw]

For valves try,

http://www.pmcomponents.co.uk/
http://www.websamba.com/colomor also present on eBay.co.uk
http://www.watfordvalves.com/home.asp
http://www.chelmervalve.com/

There is also a place near Crystal Palace Football ground, Langrex Supplies but I haven't been there in a while and their eBay store has disappeared so I can't say if they are still around.

Transformers
http://www.sowter.co.uk/

 

[colinB]

Another possibility is Bluebell Audio in Dundee, Scotland.

http://www.bluebellaudio.com

Regards
Colin.

 

[powertriode]

http://www.die-wuestens.de/

This is 'Ask Jan First'
They're very good, they take PayPal and deliver to the UK.

 

[i_should_coco]

Couple more:

Crowthorne Tubes Gerry's great for tubes and vintage stuff.
Farnell All the components.

Cheers,
Pete

 

[knubie]

There's a guy in Norway that has a lot of tubes....
www.demostenes.no
Lot's of stuff here you wouldn't find many other places....

 

[Dik Dolan]

http://www.hificollective.co.uk/

Not the cheapest around but lots of nice stuff, and good service. I bought the glasshouse 300b kit, and love it=)

 

[KBK]

the tube store! (Canada plug)

 

[matthew2456]

ordered from the dupe depot tuesday afternoon and it turned up this morning (thursday!). Excellent service (tubedepot and fedex) and a good price.

Just about to order transformers from thl and some other bits so will let you know how they turn out, and am ahving a custom 230v power transformer made at edcor

 

[kristleifur]

Did you see this post about discounted non-RoHS components from Rapid Electronics in the UK?

http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=84396

Very nice prices on transformers and other stuff. You can search for "non-rohs" to get a bunch of items that are being discounted this way.