Djula Djarmati wrote:
>>> We had to use a rare type of those in a product for a demanding customer
>>> (oil refinery valves, all parts had to be exactly as specified) and the
>>> manufacturer of the valves had to buy a ridiculous amount of pins from
>>> TYCO, the MOQ was 1,000,000 pins or something like that.
>>
>> Would the valve manufacturer be willing to sell a few (maybe even tens 
>> of)
>> 1000s of these?
>>
>> Is there anyone else here interested? I think if the order could be split
>> several ways, it would open up more opportunities.
>
> I can ask them but you missed the "rare type of those" part.

I didn't miss it, I just took it to mean that they were made of some sort of 
rare unobtanium alloy.


> The type we use is a straight pin parallel to PCB and for 1mm PCB
> thickness. You can see it here:
>
> http://www.conrad.de/ce/de/product/733245/LOeTKONTAKTE-SIL-09-11-50-STUeCK

Very interesting!

BTW, how many languages do you speak?


> They are out of stock, we bought everything they had.

We sometimes do the same thing.  One time we ended up emptying the 
inventories of every single distributor we could find, so this one part was 
sourced from four or five different suppliers.

Vitaliy 

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