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Re: [motm] Radio Shack alternatives?

2006-09-06 by timothy cooper

Aw snap!  I finally broke down today and ordered a
WTCPT and one of them handy lead bending guides from
Mouser. I had no idea Radio Shack was based out of
F.W., but I do have one of the Radio Shack 15/30 watt
irons that got me through my first project, a Paia
Theremax. Even toward the end when I really started to
get the hang of soldering I could definately tell the
difference between one solder and the next as far as
the tip temp not really being too constant. 
Especially when I got to soldering the lugs on the
pots and jacks!
Ti_

--- John Mahoney <jmahoney@...> wrote:

> At 01:20 PM 9/1/2006, shari_en_jin wrote:
> >Does anyone know of and electronics stores around
> the Dallas/Fort
> >Worth area that would carry Weller or equivalent
> soldering irons and
> >electronics supplies? I'm just tired of the Radio
> Shack with only
> >Radio Shack products.
> >Thanks,
> >Ti_
> 
> How ironic: Radio Shack is *based* in Fort Worth.
> (But hey, that 
> doesn't mean that you should like the Shack any more
> than the rest of 
> us. Not that there's a better national electronics
> chain...)
> 
> Didn't Weller make some Shack irons of yore?
> --
> john
> 
> 


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