Suppliers for Vintage Electronics, Radio Parts, Tubes, etc.

The list below shows suppliers in North America for parts and restoration supplies for antique radios, electronic phonographs, tape decks, and TVs.  This list is intended for suppliers that serve unique needs in the vintage electronics community, so the big modern electronics supply houses like Mouser, Newark, and Digi-Key are not included.

This list will be edited and kept up to date as new information becomes available.  Please contact me via email if you would like to recommend another supplier to add, or if you have had any problems with a listed supplier or find that a supplier is no longer in business.

A similar list is being maintained on the Antique Radio Forum here:  ARF Supplier List .

For a similar list of European suppliers, see Aren van Waarde's post below (5th post in this thread).

This article was edited 12.Nov.18 22:33 by Thomas Albrecht .

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Thank you, Tom, that you did solve the question.
We might add also sources for batteries (and other things). I just saw that ...batteries.com does not function - but we know also data.energizer.com (without the 3W). But may be there are specialized services for our concerns?

I add here a few links to articles which deal with this problem:

Very important is NiMH Battery packs for High Voltage.
Connections is an other topic: Replacing special Batteries by Battery Packs.
Naturally charging Ni-MH battery packs is an other problem to solve.

I see that under the term sources this thread is not within the first. Sources (not resources) has therefore to be used here more often like suppliers, supply, vintag, radios, parts, tubes, repair, repairs, reproduction, restoration, renewal, renovation, service, spair, correction, mending, rebuilding etc. I think suppliers and sources are the most wanted?

This article was edited 24.Jun.12 17:04 by Ernst Erb .

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Dear Tom,

your list is a valuable tool to find anything related to vintage electronics parts. I would submit a couple of additional sites tried successfully in the recent years.

For parts, manuals, test gears and vacuum tubes I found a wide line of products at Fair Radio.

For manuals I would like to suggest also W7FG.

Emilio

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Thank you, Emilio, for the links to Fair Radio and W7FG.  As you can see, they've both now been added to the list.

Ernst, I don't yet have a good listing for battery suppliers, but will see if I can find a company that is a good source for batteries for antique radios.

More suggestions are welcome!

Tom

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This article was edited 15.Aug.17 21:53 by Aren van Waarde .

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Dear Tom
Nearly every week you could do some uptading of this most complete list.
The list gets nealy thousand requests per month ... So your work is not in vain.

Thank you very much for this good service!
Cordially,
Ernest, HB9RXQ

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Thanks to Aren van Waarde! Also he updates regularly with the hints he becomes from members and guests (using the contact form from th bottom link - we will forward to the right person).

It is important that new sources or the changes will not be posted here but told the two members, Thomas Albrecht, USA or for the other list to Aren van Waarde, NL.
You can always see below post 1 and 5 when the last update was done.

Thanks for your hints to keep this well up to date.

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Can this be added to the list?

Partridge Electronics (Benfleet UK)

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Dear Tom, dear Aren!

Please add the following parts-seller to your list.

New and new old stock (NOS) passive components

Williges-elektronik.com

They sell Telescopic antennas and dial-lamps and other passive spareparts.

Best regards

Hans-W.Ellerbrock

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Can this be added to the list?

www portugalradios.eu (portugal)

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Dear Hans-Werner,

Apologies for this (probably very late) response: the company Williges Elektronik has been added to the list. It is a nice company (and not very far from my home town!)

Best regards,

Aren van Waarde

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Dear Fernando,

The webshop of Portugal Radios has been added to the list.

Aren van Waarde

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Here is a valuable source for restoring Dual turntables or purchsing parts,  www fixmydual dot com

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Pacific TV was mentioned as a source for tubes, but I would like to point out that they are also a good source for some obscure schematics (especially some Canadian products), and have been continually adding more to their library:

Edit: I tried to post the link to their schematic page, but when I try to submit the post, it keeps giving me an error message telling me that my post contains a link.

Anyway, it's easy to find the schematics from Pacific T.V.'s main page.

(Please use the link icon within the editor to set a link, thank you)

This article was edited 12.Mar.17 09:21 by Martin Renz .

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UK Vintage Radio Service Data.
This website run by Paul Stenning has nearly all of the UK schematics available at a very reasonable price.

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