Questions About Costar Stabilizers (& Diodes)

[Vozella]

1) I heard they are pretty loud. Is there a way to make them quieter?

2) Where do you buy costar stabilizers? Also, where do you buy diodes?

[SpAmRaY]

There's a thread where you can ask simple questions instead of posting a thread for every single one. -> https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=40501.0

Also for through hole diodes I bought these http://www.ebay.com/itm/500PC-1N4148-Diode-FSC-NXP-PHI-VISHAY-DO-35-1N4148-/400820873745?hash=item5d52c92a11

[inanis]

1) I heard they are pretty loud. Is there a way to make them quieter?

2) Where do you buy costar stabilizers? Also, where do you buy diodes?

You can lube them to quiet the rattle noise, if it has any. Plate mount Costar stabs you can get from WASD. Diodes you can get from Mouser, or Digikey, or even Radio Shack sometimes.

Ray is right, if you post in the Simple Questions thread you will get all kinds of good info.

[Vozella]

There's a thread where you can ask simple questions instead of posting a thread for every single one. -> https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=40501.0

Also for through hole diodes I bought these http://www.ebay.com/itm/500PC-1N4148-Diode-FSC-NXP-PHI-VISHAY-DO-35-1N4148-/400820873745?hash=item5d52c92a11

Thanks. I'll do that from now on.