radioshak pedals? can it be done

anything one could make from there?

-The old radio shack yes..but now, not sure they carry anything but phones anymore...

As uriah1 noted, not anymore. My local one still has a few parts, but not enough to even bother stopping in if I need something.

Bums me out. Radio Shack got me started on everything I do today. Now they're not even worth turning into a driveway for.

Oh c'mon be realistic...get it? Realistic? :wink:

-Jagg

I wish they still had those Concertmate keyboards from the 70's that were made by moog.

The radio shacks in my city have about 30 drawers of diodes, transistors, resistors, caps, switches, pots, and jacks, they have perf board, plastic enclosures, hookup wire, solder and soldering irons...

Want to make one of these
http://www.tdpri.com/forum/stomp-box/131426-quick-easy-diy-sho.html

Of course ordering parts in larger supplies and not from Radio shack is a much better idea.

Yeah the Radio Shacks around here are pretty stocked on parts too. They don't have as much cool stuff as they had when I was kid (30 yrs. ago), but there's still a decent selection of garden variety electronics in the parts drawers. If you need help from a salesman there on how to bias a transistor, then you may be out of luck. I primarily order from the big guys, but I still wind up going to RS for a resistor or whatever simply because my workbench is such a mess I can't even find what I have, but that's a whole 'nother issue. I bought a digital multimeter from RS ten years ago for twenty or thirty bucks, and it's still working great!

Oh c'mon be realistic...get it? Realistic? :wink:

-Jagg

LOL. I had this awesome Realistic product when I was a kid.

One could probably build an OCD clone with parts that are in stock in the "drawers".

If you need help from a salesman there on how to bias a transistor, then you may be out of luck.

:shock::shock:
I can barely get them to ring me up when I'm done shopping. RS has got to provide the worst customer service of any retail store I know.

I was in Radio Shack just last week buying some 3M dual lock for my pedal board. (They are the only ones I could find that carries it.) I noticed (and bought) some really great metal enclosures that are the perfect size for a pedal. They also had plenty of other parts and tools.

One could probably build an OCD clone with parts that are in stock in the "drawers".

Funny you should say that, because they at least used to stock the TL082 until somewhat recently. And while they don't have the little 2N7000's that the OCD uses as clipping diodes, they do have the (humungous) IRF-series mosFET's, and those can be used in place of a BS170, to build a SHO!

I was in one of my local ones about two weeks ago grabbing a couple of video monitor adapters, when I checked the "components" isle, and lo and behold - they did have some copper clad back in stock, and a few other odds and ends I haven't seen in awhile. They also had about a half dozen little "projects" to build, but many of them were kind of expensive!

I've argued for awhile now that if someone wants just a simple little booster that they intend to leave on quite a bit (or maybe always) that they could grab the parts from RS, including a toggle to cut it on and off, and just mount the thing in the guitar. That way, you don't have to deal with the footswitch issue, since RS definitely doesn't stock those!

They even have a scant few caps in high voltage ratings that can be used for amp repairs, and I've grabbed a few of those on occasion. And - I found replacement bulbs for my old Fender amps from there, too.

The big issue with RS is the cost of stuff - they really do mark it up. But if you're just playing around with something here and there, it makes more sense than ordering $20 worth of bulk parts that will cost you $10 in shipping.

They used to have packs of ~20 1N34A germanium diodes, so I would always pick up two of them when I went in. I'm talking over a decade ago when I last must have seen them. The problem is that I squirreled those things away somewhere, and lost them. :sad:

If you are just starting out, I wouldn't go to Radio Shack, especially for advice. In most cases, you would know more than the employee/manager. They are totally clueless.

Because Radioshack has hung it's hat as 1 of thousands of cell resellers. The market is over saturated as is without more companies shifting their focus that way.

If you are just starting out, I wouldn't go to Radio Shack, especially for advice.

That's when you look for an actual electronics store. A friend of mine was trying to reverse engineer a "relay" for an old car, using a transistor. He went to Baynesville Electronics (somewhat near me), and a person there helped him locate an actual complete relay that he had wired up in about 5 minutes.

That said, the guys at Baynesville kind of look at me funny when I go in there to get some stuff. There are quite a few components in pedals that just have no practical purpose in anything else any more. I asked where they might be keeping their unbuffered CMOS inverters, and they asked me why I would want the unbuffered variety at all? If you want to experience the sonic meltdown of using a buffered one in a pedal, the "Great Destroyer" uses such a chip.

...I also found about 6 blister packs at Baynesville with LM308N's in them, and IIRC they were $2.59 for FOUR chips. Needless to say, I bought them all! When I went back a few years later, I saw that the price had changed to ~$11 for two! :shock:

The big issue with RS is the cost of stuff - they really do mark it up.

Nuff Said :shock:

The sales guy at my RS recently asked if I was "still working on the bomb"... Creepy!