[sdiy] Buying surplus 1/4" jacks/plugs for DIY patch pay

[andy]

	IMO, anything that cheap is not going to hold up for very long....
it's a better use of your money to get a cheap patchbay (the behringer
px2000 is $40 and has 48 patch points plus normalling/half-normalling on
each channel) as the only stuff you can get for that money are generic
connectors from overseas, which will break constantly as you try to use
them.

	the cheapest jacks that i buy are switchcraft jacks... you can get
these for $0.50-0.60 for a mono 1/4" if you look around.

	andy

On 14 Jan 2003, R. D. Davis wrote:

> Does anyone have any suggestions for a good place to purchase a fairly
> large quantity of 1/4" mono phone jacks and plugs that will withstand
> use in a patch bay?  After looking at the prices of patch bays, and
> being a bit thrifty, I decided to go the DIY route to see how little a
> 64 jack patch pay can be built for.  Does anyone think US$30, or even
> US$20, to be an unreasonable goal to aim for?  Surely it's possible!
> :-)
>
> I found one surplus place selling chrome-plated jacks for as low as
> US$0.29 each in quantities of 100, and plugs for US$0.50 each... so
> far, this seems fairly cheap, but, surely, way cheaper prices for
> chrome plated jacks, and plugs, can be found somewhere... :-)
>
> Any thoughts on this?
>
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