<div dir="ltr">Ehhh according to the Forbes article, its a Chapter 11 Restructuring, with a selloff of about half their stores (2400 of 5500) to a private equity firm that will reopen about half of those as Sprint stores. So nothing is really changing. RS is still gonna be a barely passable component shop, though some stores might close for good. Amazon, Ebay, and Mouser/Digikey are all viable replacements for RS, though it does suck that there might not be somewhere local that one can run when they need some resistors or transistors NOW and are willing to ignore the markup. RS has come in handy for me in the past that way, but they've also let me down in the same way too. In the end, we'll see what changes, they opened up a brand new store in madison that had a slightly better selection and I'd be surprised if it went away a year after they opened it.<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Joshua Pritt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ramgarden@gmail.com" target="_blank">ramgarden@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Here in Florida near Melbourne Makerspace there is a locally owned business called Jaycon Systems. They are the ones we normally go to for parts and things. Perhaps there's a similar place near there or someone could start a similar business there in Huntsville?<div><a href="http://melbournemakerspace.org/" target="_blank">http://melbournemakerspace.org/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.jayconsystems.com/" target="_blank">http://www.jayconsystems.com/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Jacob Chancery <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jacob.chancery@gmail.com" target="_blank">jacob.chancery@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div>They declared bankruptcy yesterday.</div><div><br></div>So, is there any other place I can go to buy electrical components? I mean, for a planned project I would just buy online. But for an emergency repair, it sure was nice to have a local store.<div><br></div><div>I once spent hours disassembling my mini-van power sliding door to figure out that the problem was a corroded <a href="http://www.radioshack.com/spdt-switch-with-3-4-roller-lever/2750017.html#.VNTe9J29l8F" target="_blank">limit switch</a>. Luckily I could pick up a new switch from Radio Shack and fix it, instead of having to reassemble it broken and wait for an order to arrive.<span><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-Jacob</div></font></span></div>
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