[ML-General] No More Radio Shack

[Phillip Showers]

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.


On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Joshua Pritt <ramgarden at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
> http://melbournemakerspace.org/
>
> http://www.jayconsystems.com/
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Jacob Chancery <jacob.chancery at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> They declared bankruptcy yesterday.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> I once spent hours disassembling my mini-van power sliding door to figure
>> out that the problem was a corroded limit switch
>> <http://www.radioshack.com/spdt-switch-with-3-4-roller-lever/2750017.html#.VNTe9J29l8F>.
>> 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.
>>
>> -Jacob
>>
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