[ARCHIVED THREAD] - RadioShack dead (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 5/8/2017 12:21:57 AM EDT
| Since all the local stores closed I drove to a store twenty miles away but they were closing as well. I'm trying to rehab an old Soundcraftsmen amp and needed some soldering tools. Fuck me I just need some soldering braid. Now I'll have to wait till next weekend thanks to Amazon. FUCFUCFUCFUCFUCFUCFUCFUCFUCFUCFUC |
Why waste time driving around?
*edit why cant this forum software display e-bay links? 
$4 shipped. Link |
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You apparently live in an are devoid of Home Depot or Lowes? |
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Amazon Prime will have you fixed up by Tues/Wed
I'd go with smaller solder, though, like 0.025" (~24 gauge), keeps you from globbing too much on, and allows you to work with surface mount components. Combine with a Hakko temperature controlled low voltage station. |
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00068IJPO?tag=vglnk-c102-20
Delivered in 2 days. |
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Iron, and below it as a combo are the accessories
and Better solder for OP The 63/37 mix is eutectic, meaning it melts "quick" and hardens "quick", not as much time to make a cold solder joint while it cools. No Clean flux is another bonus. |
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I haven't been to one since they closed all the ones around here.. don't miss 'em. they were okay back in the day, but poor management decisions didn't help. Radio Shack 'Clerk" "welcome to radio shack, can I help you?" Me: "I doubt it, but I dare ya to try"  |
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they deserved it. abandoned their base and shilled cheap chinese shit, flimsy RC cars, and trinkets. At the end their hobbyist section was like 4 drawers of shitty switches and low output leds. I remember fondly the RS from the mid to late 70s. Archer, Micronta and Realistic brands, anyone? As soon as they became just another cellphone and geegaw store, one could tell the end was nigh for them. |
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Since all the local stores closed I drove to a store twenty miles away but they were closing as well. I'm trying to rehab an old Soundcraftsmen amp and needed some soldering tools. Fuck me I just need some soldering braid. Now I'll have to wait till next weekend thanks to Amazon. FUCFUCFUCFUCFUCFUCFUCFUCFUCFUCFUC Microcenter has stuff those of us who are electronically gifted need. If you find a Radio Shack that's going out of business, you can absolutely buy all kinds of stuff for a quarter of what you'd get it anywhere else. I had three within ten miles of me and I went to all three and bought all kinds of stuff. Reloaded my resistor, capacitor, inductors and diodes stash. Found a quarter farad capacitor and snapped that bitch up for laughs. Got two brand new fluke meters, a 115 and 117 for $60 apiece. New soldering irons, tips, soldersucker, and temperature control on the cheap too. Everyone else was snapping up remote controlled cars and batteries and shit, and I grabbed a metric shit ton of batteries too, CR123's and 2032's, but the best finds were the components because almost nobody else was snapping them up. |
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Iron, and below it as a combo are the accessories and Better solder for OP The 63/37 mix is eutectic, meaning it melts "quick" and hardens "quick", not as much time to make a cold solder joint while it cools. No Clean flux is another bonus. |
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Realistically I'm missin it. Quoted:
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What the fuck is Radio Shack!
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Very nice. I just made a 100+ slide PowerPoint on soldering and solder chemistry for my job and eutectic solder is one of topics I covered. It's definitely great for avoiding disturbed joints. Quoted:
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Iron, and below it as a combo are the accessories and Better solder for OP The 63/37 mix is eutectic, meaning it melts "quick" and hardens "quick", not as much time to make a cold solder joint while it cools. No Clean flux is another bonus. |
| Pony up for Prime. Same day shipping on many things, or next day on most others. I ordered a rifle scope at 11 AM on a Sunday. It was delivered Monday because I forgot to give the gate code to my neighborhood, otherwise I would have had it Sunday night at 8 p.m. Still, next day, free shipping. Who needs stores? |
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Is this why so many of our older members have been so cranky lately? It would explain a lot...  
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Radio Shack . . . you've got questions; we've got answers.
But in the closing years their only answer involved selling me a cell phone plan. Anybody else old enough to remember Allied Electronics catalogs? LINK When everything went to solid state electronics and integrated circuits and was imported from China, everything became disposable rather than repairable. |