[TowerTalk] coaxial stripper

[Pete Smith]

Fortunately, ours in Charles Town, WV still has a good selection of 
stuff in drawers, including some hard-to-find things like grommets.  
Only one rotary switch, though, and their only mini spdt toggle switches 
have a center off position.  Weird.  I totally agree about the staff, 
though - just like Walmart.

73, Pete N4ZR

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On 2/27/2010 10:32 AM, Dan Schaaf wrote:
> Some Rat Shack's are different, you can still buy a limited selection of
> parts. Depends on the franchise.  But not many. In the 60's they had a
> decent mail order catalog. Along with Allied Electronics.
>
> Dan Schaaf
> K3ZXL
> "In the Beginning there was Spark Gap"
> www.k3zxl.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert West"<robert.west at eatmoresoap.com>
> To: "'Tower and HF antenna construction topics.'"<towertalk at contesting.com>
> Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 10:22 AM
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] coaxial stripper
>
>
> To be honest, they can stock every tower and radio part that they can but as
> long as they insist on employing the cheapest labor that they can find with
> the only requirement being that they can text message, you're on your own at
> "The Shack".  They should have changed the name to "Cell Phone Shack" since
> that's what they seem to only be interested in selling you.
>
> In the 70's I spent much of my time in and out of Radio Shack and the
> managers always knew their stuff and would go out of their way to educate.
> Now the roles have reversed where we have to explain to them what solder
> does.
>
> Sad.........
>
> Bob-
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Charles Coldwell
> Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 10:06 AM
> To: Tower and HF antenna construction topics.
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] coaxial stripper
>
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Orcena Lyle<olyle at usfamily.net>  wrote:
>    
>> I bought a coax stripper at Radio Shack but haven't used it yet. It does
>> RG6/59 cables. It looks similar to the stripper made for TV coax.
>>      
> For RG6/59 and CATV connectors (F connectors) I bought tooling from
> solidsignal.com that I'm happy with.  I especially like the Digicon F
> connectors.  One word of caution about those: don't try to install an
> F connector for RG6 quad shield on an RG59 cable.  Learned that the
> hard way.
>
>    
>> My neighborhood Radio Shack
>> tells me that all the Radio Shack stores are going to be more friendly
>> toward geeks and are stocking more electronic parts and tools and such.
>>      
> We'll see.  I went down to "The Shack" (as they have rebranded
> themselves) looking for ferrite beads and had to explain what they
> were to the man at the counter.
>
>