[Boatanchors] RS.. was soldering/desoldering

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Joe,

I'll agree for the most part with your first five points but Sears has been 
in the appliance busines for at least most of my life.  First washer and dryer 
I ever bought came from Sears Roebuck.  Circa 1970 when I bought my first 
house.  All of the major appliances in my current home except for the central 
heating and AC unit and the hot water heater came from Sears.  BTW, whatever 
happened to Roebuck?

Oh, and on the original soldering/desoldering subject, I'll add another vote 
for Pace over Hakko for light duty work.  Which is 95% of what we do.

In a message dated 2/19/2006 10:20:07 PM Central Standard Time, 
carolew at bellatlantic.net writes: 
> 5. I think another chain making a similar mistake is Sears. Several years 
> ago, they opened their Sears Hardware stores, which had a very large inventory 
> of tools, hardware and home-repair gadgets. About a year ago, they went into 
> appliances. This forced them to cut drastically their inventory of tools, 
> hardware and
> home-repair gadgets and the amount of space allotted to those items. When I 
> go through Sears, I never see anyone even looking at the appliances.

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