cornytheclown wrote:
Mike Coslo wrote in message . net...

Howard wrote:


Recent visits to my local Radio Shack for even the most simple
components has left me disappointed. Recently I had the need for 5
10uf electrolytics at any voltage really, and could not find them at 3
local stores.

There used to be a selection of 25 or so IC's that were widely used
and popular...no more tho.

Even a simple LM386 could not be found around here.

Also, the parts are now being jammed into these ugly parts bins as if
to hide them from view.

Is this the same situation where you live?

One manager mentioned that components are no longer a real concern of
management and that he is under the impression that "parts" are on the
way out soon.

Wouldn't that just be the way...the old local electronics places are
out of business, and the Shack eliminates their parts. They sure do
have answers, don't they?

I wonder what their answer will be when the cell phone market is
saturated. (which is starting now) I really doubt that the Shack will
survive, since they've pinned so much on cell phones.

- Mike KB3EIA -


The last time I went to rat shack the two salesmen staffing the store
descended on me like a pair of hungry vultures...when they found out I
wasnt there to buy a phone or oher electronic appliance they left me
alone. Its odd how rat shack has confined all parts to the parts bin
thing yet they sell new soldering irons and those junk tools.......
This store does seem to keep an adequete supply of their ferric
chloride in stock hough, that and he odd connector are all I buy
there.

The electronics supply house we had here, radio electric, left town
many years ago....we do have another elecronic place in a nearby town
but it sells mostly computer and telecommunications related
stuff....Th ics they do carry are all nte at nte prices.....and the
selection of passives is poor...like rat shack kind of 5 resistors for
a dollar something........

I honestly hate having to use a place like mouser or allied but what
else can you do ???
Some local "ham radio" outlets also carry parts. There are one or two
in Fort Lauderdale and Miami that do. (PLUG... "Mike's Electronics",
and he is a discount Kenwood and Icom dealer too. Great guy.)