gutting a Johnson std/rep tone 15

[J M Fahey]

Well, so far as "foreign languages" go, Spanish was spoken in America many years before English. Even in what later became "U.S.A.". Anyway, going back to the mysteries of International Trading, your local supplier is a thief, even if he doesn´t have a 9mm in his other hand.
I can buy them in Buenos Aires, over the counter, almost anywhere for 1,50 U$S and my industrial supplier has them for 0.58 U$S (yes, 58 cents), with an extra 20% discount on cash orders over U$S100. www.jbcelectronics.com Their "public" prices are almost double the real ones because they *do not* sell to the general public and have to protect reseller´s markups.