AW: [sdiy] archive woes/washing flux off PCB's

[Grant Richter]

> 
> Not too much of a loss...I've never bought anything there if I can help it. I
> took an electronics course at a summer program when I was 15 or so, and the
> first thing the instructor taught us, even before V=IR, was Radio Shack=Junk.
> Their sales staff is a joke, too...but when you don't pay very much to
> employees, that's what you get.
> 

Radio Shack doesn't actually manufacture parts. They just buy them from the
same Taiwanese suppliers as everyone else. Depending on what it is, you may
get the exact same part from Mouser or Digikey. Of course, you will pay a
lot more for it at Radio Shack.

Their prototyping boards are really handy.