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    Posted: 05 Oct 2017 at 5:09pm
The guy that owned the Radio Shack franchise just changed the name of his stores. He gets to put what he wants on the shelves and now he has no franchise fee.
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I built a few Heathkit kits when I was a kid. A lot of fun, and the solder flux probably didn't kill too many brain cells... Cry
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Heathkit a name from the past     wow just a few more flash back and I will be out of hear.  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27 Aug 2017 at 12:13pm
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Originally posted by David

 I'm on a roll, Fred! 

Sometimes this place has good deals on things:

All Electronics


Keep 'em coming, David! The only problem is...
It's keeping me away from my other project:
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Originally posted by David

 I'm on a roll, Fred! 

Sometimes this place has good deals on things:

All Electronics


Keep 'em coming, David! The only problem is...

It's keeping me away from my other project:



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Oh, forgot, also a Pioneer "rotisserie" CD player.. 5 discs.. that's like music forever...
We still have our Sony equivalent to the 5-disc player. One load on shuffle is all you need for several hours of entertainment.
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Ahh...the smell of solder smoke! It gets in your blood.....and makes you crazy!   

Do you remember taking tubes to the local drug store and testing them on their machine?


David, what makes you crazy is the lead you inhailed from the rosin lead core solder of days gone by. Cry

I wonder what happened to all those tube checkers that use to be at the drug stores? I guess someone is auctioning them off for big money? LOL
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I'm on a roll, Fred!

Sometimes this place has good deals on things:

All Electronics


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25 Aug 2017 at 2:02pm

I just remembered (Fred)..........

You may yet be able to get those Radio Shack items that you've always longed for! They had "auction #1" last month. This implies there will be further auctions????

Myself, I'm not sure that I want to pay the bid prices for something like an old TRS-80 computer. 5 1/4" floppies are getting hard to find. Some of the bidding was unbelievable.

Proving once again that people will bid outrageous sums of money for darned near anything. ( I think that is Flea-Bay's business model)




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