where to buy electrical components?

I'm trying to fix my Love Controller that I blew up with the help of Dwyer's techs. After replacing some blown paths with wires, the only element that seems blown is a Switching Voltage Regulator. Anyway, I'm having a helluva time finding it locally so I need to find it online. The only place I've seen it is Digikey.com but they want $7 or so for it, after shipping I'm sure it'll go over $10. Anyone know a better place to find it? BTW, the part I'm looking for is LT1172CT.

eBay? 67890

allelectronics.com maybe, mcmaster?

allied electronics
www.alliedelec.com

for a single item, you might get killed on shipping, but I shop at www.mouser.com

www.jameco.com
$4.25 http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/st...1732203&productId=1732203&keyCode=WSF&cid=GMC

Don't forget digikey.com or newark.com

The majority of my favorites have been posted here but this is a good start:

Digikey: www.digikey.com
Mouser: www.mouser.com
Jameco: www.jameco.com
Allied: www.alliedelec.com
Sparkfun: www.sparkfun.com
Futurlec: www.futurlec.com
Adafruit: www.adafruit.com
All Electronics: www.allelectronics.com
BG Micro: www.bgmicro.com

The problem is always shipping with such low volume orders.

you wouldn't think that electronics repair questions could be answered in a homebrew forum, but it simply amazes me how many engineers make their own beer (me being one of them)...

skidaddytn said:

you wouldn't think that electronics repair questions could be answered in a homebrew forum, but it simply amazes me how many engineers make their own beer (me being one of them)...

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5hit, man... If we weren't drinking all the time, I'm sure we'd have sorted out cold fusion by now.

Damn! You guys rock! Now I'll just have to piggyback some new projects to make the shipping worth it... Anyone have suggestions? I already built a PWM for my brew kettle, I got most of the 2-stage temp controller built... what other boards can I make?