28 Sep
2006
28 Sep
'06
10:19 p.m.
On 9/28/06, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
A word of explanation (I hope). To you, 'RS' means 'Radio Shack', right?
And they sell mostly to hobbyists. In the UK, 'RS' is 'RS Components' [1],
who used to be known as 'Radiospares'. Although they dropped that name
about 35 years ago, most older engineers and scientists will still use
it. Now RS components sell mostly to trade/industrial customers (they
will now supply anyone, though), and their stuff _tends_ to be high
quality (and is often known name-brands).
The DB sized punch I bought came from RS components, not Radio Shack!.
[1] Try http://www.rswww.com/
Cheap manual nibblers (about $10) work, but are a
little hard on the hand
after awhile, particularly if you've got heavy gauge sheet metal.
And I've broken cheap RS nibblers on thick aluminum... they are OK for
plastic and really thin sheet.