[Hallicrafters] Re: Electronics stores and internet sales

[Dave Harmon]

Yeah, that's true....I had been going to the Mar-Vac location in Los Angeles
(Culver City) for many years....probably 10 years and CH Electronics too.
That location closed in early 2007.
Most of the stuff they had was surplus from other defunct resellers of off
shore components such as Jim-Pac and Proparts.
I finally got tired of going there to sift through the crap parts and coming
home with make-do parts or NOS electrolytics.
Now I get the good stuff from Mouser or Digi-Key in 2 days.

Regards

Dave Harmon
K6XYZ[at]sbcglobal[dot]net
Sperry, Ok.

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[mailto:hallicrafters-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Peter Markavage
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 3:17 PM
To: hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Re: Electronics stores and internet sales

You migrate to where the money can be made. "We" lost our technological
edge years ago.

Pete, wa2cwa
http://www.manualman.com
 
On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:05:25 EDT HallicrafterSX28 at aol.com writes:
> This is a nationwide phenomenon.Electronics parts stores are going 
> out of  
> business.Marwac Electronics here in Pasadena CA ,where I used to buy 
> parts ,  
> closed it's store back in 04.Then C&H Surplus another local 
> electronics  surplus 
> store is now going out of business after 60 years ! This is just 
> sign of  the 
> times .
> Now I do all of my electronics shopping online ,tubes ,resistors  
> ,capacitors 
> etc etc.except for the solder that I can still find at my local  
> Radio 
> Shack(They too have closed down one of their stores)
>  
> As an electronics instructor I've seen my classes sizes reduce from 
> at one  
> time of 40 or 50 students down to 5 or 6 students! Nobody it seems 
> wants to  
> study Electronics and engineering anymore ! Looks like the US is 
> slowly  loosing 
> its technological edge .
> AMK"Nick"
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