Topic: Electronics suppliers - building a battery box

[nasarius]

I've decided to do some surgery on my Giant Squids. First, I want to transplant the guts of the battery box from its big, ugly, metal enclosure into a slightly smaller, ugly, plastic enclosure. Then I need to detach the mics, wire them to a plug, and add a couple jacks and a switch to the new enclosure. This is fairly simple stuff, even for someone like me who hasn't touched a soldering iron in years, but the problem is that I don't know where to go to buy the components. I'd rather order online than try to rummage around a Radio Shack.

I found this wonderfully organized site:
http://www.rapidonline.com/home.aspx

But they're located in the UK, and charge obscene prices to ship to the US. I almost like Allied Electronics, but they only offer one kind of 3.5mm jack, and it's not one I particularly want. Any advice other than the blind Googling I've been doing would be appreciated.

[nasarius]

Oh yeah, and strangely enough, DigiKey has plenty of 3.5mm stereo jacks, but only one plug.

[beefstew]

i found all my parts at the rat shack - its not too hard bc the drawers are marked

[jerryfreak]

if digikey doesnt have it, mouser will