Connecting Skyport to flash units

[warrenism]

Howdy.
So the arrival of my Skyports is imminent, allowing me to play around with off camera flash. Problem is that my flash unit is a 430EX, meaning that the only way to connect flash and receiver is via hot-shoe adapter - 3.5mm adapter.
Flashzebra is completely out of stock with not indication as to when he will be able start producing them. So i figure, that making my own won't be that difficult. The only problem is that i have no idea where to source the female hot shoe mounts locally. DSE / Tandy all yield nothing! Do i have to look overseas?

Any suggestions?

[PiroStitch]

have you tried other camera stores or maybe a local pawn shop with various bits and pieces. i'd look at other camera stores first before just making one.

[gstark]

Ted's on Pitt St.

And they will probably have staff that are qualified to sell an item of this complexity.

[warrenism]

Piro / Gary - Im not holding high hopes that Teds/ Paxtons / Georges any retail stockist will have such items.
I went into Georges / Paxtons the other day and the staff i dealt with didn't know what a PC Sync connection was.

[gstark]

I've seen them in Ted's ...