12 Mar
2007
12 Mar
'07
2:08 p.m.
On 12/03/07, woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
That I don't know 'owt about...
I think it says somthing of their current target audience type that
their newest stores are all in big edge-of-town retail parks..
Quite.. this was a rescued linksys wireless router.. they are prone to
failing with to bad caps in the switch circuits. So 55p ($1) of
components later and it's working again.. (mostly.. the adsl side is
still playing up.) I'm not up to Tony's level of getting dirty with
circuitry, but when it's that simple a fix, I'll do it. I think
though even I am in a minority here.. most people would just chuck it
and buy a new one..
Rob
Jules Richardson wrote:
> Rob wrote:
actually I think it might have been Tony who said:
>> [1] Maplin, the company, are still going, but their range of components
>> is a joke. They now mostly sell electornic toys, Lo-Fi, etc.
So who sells Hi-Fi that you can afford?
Well the UK still for the moment makes the best speakers - Lowthers.
> Tell me
about it... I cleaned out two stores this weekend to get
> enough 33uF 25V electrolytics for a repair I was doing... hardly
> exotic, I thought, but the total quantity between two stores? Five!
The key word here is *Repair*.