Radio shack vs Amazon

[85_Ranger4x4]

I miss RadioShack too. I have been at my job so long now that I remember actually going in there with a purchase order and buying stuff for customers. That building has been remodeled into a doctor's office and even that was probably 10+ years ago. We had another locally owned electronics supply place that carried a lot of components, networking/telecom equipment, and appliance parts but they closed too.

Amazon is what it is but their search results suck. It's not a matter of learning it or whatever... search results just plain suck. If I search for a flux capacitor part #1001001 I will get sponsored results for weed eater string or vitamin gummies. It's that far off. If you narrow it down then you lose half of the results and some of them were relevant. I actually have better luck using Google and typing in something like "Amazon flux capacitor #1001001." eBay is actually better sometimes and a lot of my orders are cheaper than Amazon and come shipped in an Amazon box from a drop shipper... weird right?

Google is a crapshoot too. Trying to find something obscure is like offroading with your phone/computer. Its a lot of work and you never know if will actually get where you want to go.

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Who remembers these? My cousin had one back when we were kids and we worked with it all the time. All of these things had a spring at each end and was numbered. It came with a bunch of wires and a book of projects that told you what connections to make. You just leaned the spring over and stuck a wire in between the coils and it held it. I remember one of the projects was a lie detector and you had to hold a wire between your finger tips. That was back when RS had cool stuff.

Oliver just got one of these for Christmas:

https://www.amazon.com/Snap-Circuits-SC-100-Electronics-Exploration/dp/B00008BFZH/?tag=959media-20

So clever, I never even thought about using snaps like that. It is neat I can easily show him how to wire a light or the like.

Upon him opening it I went up to my childhood bedroom closet and retrieved my spring set like you posted. He isn't quite ready for that yet though.

 

[fastpakr]

Google is a crapshoot too. Trying to find something obscure is like offroading with your phone/computer. Its a lot of work and you never know if will actually get where you want to go.



Oliver just got one of these for Christmas:

https://www.amazon.com/Snap-Circuits-SC-100-Electronics-Exploration/dp/B00008BFZH/?tag=959media-20

So clever, I never even thought about using snaps like that. It is neat I can easily show him how to wire a light or the like.

Upon him opening it I went up to my childhood bedroom closet and retrieved my spring set like you posted. He isn't quite ready for that yet though.

I was about to suggest snap circuits too. It’s a brilliant system.

 

[Jim Oaks]

That's pretty cool. I didn't even know they still made stuff like that.

 

[bobbywalter]

audino is the shiznit....radio shack was getting some good stuff with it and then dissapeared....


i miss radio shack....was not aware of micro center though. there is one in madison heights....going to go there and sniff around first chance i get.

probably leave my wallet at home just to be safe for a first trip.

 

[bobbywalter]

come back radio shack