Best place for ballast?

Home Depot still has them. You should be able to find them in the electrical department of most other hardware stores. Lowe's does NOT have them any more.
 
Menards and Fleet Farm have them up here in the midwest. You should still be able to find them at local hardware stores too.

However, unless you can find them cheaply, it's often better to just buy a new fixture for $8 to $12 since you get a new tube with it.

The Sylvania branded 14-20 watt single tube magnetic ballasts used to sell for about $2.69 at Fleet Farm and $3.99 at Menards. Lowes had a clearance on them for about $1.67 a couple years ago.

Entire fixtures are about $10 at Walmart, but they may be newer electronic balasts (better--less filament wear, no flickering to start, no humming, typically work with old tubes that won't fully start in a magnetic ballast) but require you to replace more stuff.

Tubes alone are $7 at most stores, so cost/benefit/time/originality analysis to see what the better deal for you will be.

Also -- check your thrift stores. They often have old under the cabinet mounted fixtures with tubes for $2-$3. Rip them apart to get the ballast out and get a free used tube out of the deal too.
 
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replacing the whole fixture is often the best and easiest solution if you're not dead-set on keeping the machine all original. before doing this though it's good to check to make sure a new fixture will fit or be easy to install as i've run into a few cabinets where that wasn't true. i had one with a thicker metal panel that didn't like sheet metal screws, and Xevious had such a small space that the new fixture had to sit at a weird angle and it lit only the top half of the marquee. after some frustration both ended up with new ballasts instead.
 
If you didn't load up on 33-cent ones when Lowe's did their clearout, just go to Home Depot and pick one up for $5. Easy to install...
 
Also, if your original ballast isn't destroyed, try just replacing the starter(round aluminum cylinder). It twists and lifts out and usually a quick replacement will correct any issues you are having if you want to keep it all original. They are also very inexpensive to replace($1 to $2)

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If not, +1 on what everyone else suggests. Wal-Mart, Lowes, Home Depot, etc...
 
OK I guess I'm getting my terms fixed up here. I thought the fixture was called a ballast. So if I just buy a new fixture, how easy is that to wire to the cabinet?
 
Depends. At the very least, you'll have to wire in the power (cut the plug off and splice the connector from the old fixture to it). Then it's just a matter of a couple screws to mount it...
 
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