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Originally Posted by Bob Kontak
Even my independent go-to electronics store in Akron shut down. They had everything. E.g., Tools to release the connectors from wiring plugs.
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Some of my earliest memories are of going with my Dad, who was an EE and ham operator, to "radio stores." They were always kind of dark and smelled like wires and solder and probably PCBs and such. Dad liked oscilloscopes, power generators, and anything with tubes he could harvest for his projects. It seemed like there were about five different stores in the Detroit area, and we'd hit them all in a Saturday. There are probably places just like that today in the outskirts of Beijing. With all the same stuff.