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Anyone need @N2222 Transistors?

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#1

I used to get electronic parts from Radio Shack. A blister pack of 4 or 5 small signal transistors was about $6. Radio Shack is gone here and I use Amazon for cheap electronics. A 200 pack of 2N2222 transistors was about $6. I need 4, and a few for the parts bin.

Happy to send a handful to anyone free. A bunch should go for a first class stamp.

Working on a 2 transistor logic inverter for RailPro to Bachmann Optical Chuff. Don uses a simple resistor, but I suspect the chuff pulse it’s not square as it should be. The inverter should fix that. I can’t really hear the difference, so it might be a waste of time, but it’s fun!

#2

I really miss Radio Shack !! Go the store and tool around …still have some stuff in stock but waning.

#3

I live in Ft. Worth, Texas the home of RS and I don’t believe there is one store left here.

trainman

#4

John Lenheiser said:

I live in Ft. Worth, Texas the home of RS and I don’t believe there is one store left here.

trainman

Been there many a time. I worked as a store manager for Radio Shack for over 10 years starting in the 80’s. They would bring us to 1 Tandy Center for training. At one time they were a very innovative retailer, nearly entirely vertically integrated. Stockholders could not understand a retailer who was also a manufacturer, a distributor and a retail store outfitter. They sold off all but retail to satisfy the stockholders, but no longer in control of costs they began to loose money. Just a memory now in most places.

#5

Google Radio Shack…they still have an online store Website you can order parts including resistors.

#6

HobbytownUSA carries Radio Shack parts also.

This was before C19, do not know about today.

#7

Thanks Tom. I knew they have a website. I just find Amazon more convenient and probably cheaper for small orders. That, and I can shop with credit card reward $ :grinning:

#8

Interesting. I just went to my maps app and searched on Radio Shack and found that ALL of them in Fairfax county are permanently closed! (I don’t go there much, and now I know why! :grin:)

Talk about a corporation that lost touch with its customers and kept trying to reinvent itself. It will probably be a case study in some business class sometime.