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Re: From The Road: Radio Shack Alternatives

Dave Cardwell — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 01:30:14 -0000

Geez I miss this store. I used to live in Oakville and I used to go down every second Saturday to the Queen st Store and spend hours looking through parts. I moved to Vancouver in 97 and I miss all the parts and Fred and the guys and all the fun. Sigh... Now I'm looking for a lousy 4" speaker and can't find anything here. If I went to Active Surplus I would find 100 possibilities and a dozen more cool parts for later.. How depressing this is.. I

Re: From The Road: Radio Shack Alternatives

Aaron Davis — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:31:36 -0000

There is a store something like this (even has the box of random arms and legs!) in St. Paul MN called ax-man surplus
the people there really have a sense of humor, every item is tagged with a goofy description

Re: From The Road: Radio Shack Alternatives

Koskun — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:57:21 -0000

Ok, this may be a minor thing, and perhaps you changed the name on purpose, but it is spelled RadioShack, no space.

Re: From The Road: Radio Shack Alternatives

Fazal Majid — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:10:30 -0000

The SF Bay Area equivalent is Weird Stuff:
http://www.weirdstuff.com/

Re: From The Road: Radio Shack Alternatives

Raoul — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:31:48 -0000

Man oh man do i love going to Active.. if only there was something like that for us over in Ottawa, sure we have bits and pieces but nothing like Active

Re: From The Road: Radio Shack Alternatives

Scott — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:29:05 -0000

Looks like heaven to me. When I lived in Portland, we had Wacky Willy's, which was a huge place with this kind of stuff. Sadly, it's closed now...although my wallet is fuller and my garage doesn't have so much weird stuff in it.

Re: From The Road: Radio Shack Alternatives

Kevin — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:59:23 -0000

For Midwesterners, check out American Science and Surplus. Same premise: cheap stock of electronics and science gadgets and parts!

http://www.sciplus.com/stor...