14 Apr
2000
14 Apr
'00
9:40 a.m.
Hi Tony,
>....the Tandy stores here in Birmingham are all too
often little more
>than mobile phone/radio controlled car shops....
You do realise they've been taken over by a
cellular phone sales
company (at least in England)....
Actually, I wasn't aware of that. It certainly explains a lot though....
....That's why they sold off all their components
at low (really low,
not just low by Tandy standards) prices.
Damn, I missed that. :-(
VCR parts are generally available from companies like
Grandata...
We've were using "HRS" and "Wiltsgrove" until recently. Sadly,
about 18
months ago both companies decided they'd only deal with account customers,
which makes dealing with them nigh on impossible now. :-(
I'm sure I've mentioned before how Sharp
refused to sell me a little
plastic gear for one of their photocopiers....
Funnily enough, the parts we were after from JVC were little plastic
gears/rollers too.
....This had 2 results. Firstly, I'll never buy
another Sharp unit as
long as I live....
I don't blame you, I've stuck with Panasonic VCRs myself ever since.
....Secondly, I spent rather a lot of money at Myfords
and ending up
being able to _make_ mechanical parts myself :-)
Good idea!!
TTFN - Pete.
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Hardware & Software Engineer. Sound Engineer.
Collector of Arcade Machines, Games Consoles & Obsolete Computers (esp DEC)
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