Professor of Engineering
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RadioShack Score!
I went to a local RadioShack store that was closing for business as of 8:00 pm tonight. As I walked in the store a sales person said “fill a bag for $ 40 dollars”. Now, these bags were huge, other denominations existed $ 20, $ 10…etc. I noticed the contents of those electronic component draws they have in the back of the store and asked about the lot. He said fill the bag! So I filled a $ 40 dollar bag and a $ 10 dollar bag with every component from the draws and anything for designing and building electronic circuits located on the sparse wall shelves. Now the poor salesman had to scan every item into the computer for inventory control, as it turned out I had over 500 items. After all was said and done, I spent $ 50.00 for over $ 2000 dollars worth of electronic merchandise. I will use most of the electronic components with my college students, but I did pick up a few keepers for me.
Sorry for the long post.
Best Regards,
Professor
I went to a local RadioShack store that was closing for business as of 8:00 pm tonight. As I walked in the store a sales person said “fill a bag for $ 40 dollars”. Now, these bags were huge, other denominations existed $ 20, $ 10…etc. I noticed the contents of those electronic component draws they have in the back of the store and asked about the lot. He said fill the bag! So I filled a $ 40 dollar bag and a $ 10 dollar bag with every component from the draws and anything for designing and building electronic circuits located on the sparse wall shelves. Now the poor salesman had to scan every item into the computer for inventory control, as it turned out I had over 500 items. After all was said and done, I spent $ 50.00 for over $ 2000 dollars worth of electronic merchandise. I will use most of the electronic components with my college students, but I did pick up a few keepers for me.
Sorry for the long post.
Best Regards,
Professor
Wow! Super! As a teacher, that's a really useful fabulous find! 
), all I needed to do was hit the Radio Shack and homebrew a suitable replacement. It took a little while to intuit how to go about it as I have no EE experience, but it actually works a lot better than the original, with longer battery life and no chance of breaking contact and turning off if accidentally jarred/dropped. She felt really bad about it at first, but in the end it did me a favor. It kinda distresses the nostalgic part of me to think that someday it will be almost impossible for the average Joe to quickly and efficiently browse what is available and get what they need to do this sort of repair work; like we are losing another piece of the American ethos of economical self reliance that made this such a great nation in the past.
) and there was the help from dad also, but it worked. I read one time that POW's in N. Korea were able to build a crystal set and get news. They used a broken razor blade for the crystal. Mention crystal set today, and you get a blank look.
