24 Feb
2008
24 Feb
'08
9:31 p.m.
On Sunday 24 February 2008 20:59, der Mouse wrote:
Last time I was in Montreal I was traveling with a band, running their sound
and trying to keep their equipment running. Opened up a brand new place
called "Arnold's" (this was a number of years ago!), and when our keyboard
player ended up with a busted connector on a Leslie cabinet I had to go find
one someplace. I did, too, though I couldn't tell you where it was at this
point in time.
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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M Dakin
for that
matter, who sells parts any more? no one I can find.
in the last few years they don't bother doing it any more, it's
cheaper just to buy a new "whatever" than try to repair an old one.
Radio Shack (now goine) in Canada stopped supplying parts ages ago
(longer than I can remember).
Well, from a Montreal perspective, there are three alternatives I'm
familiar with: Addison, a surplus discount house; Active, which last
time I went there was a parts house like what RS was back when only
better; and order-in, like Digikey or Mouser. Oh, and for really
common routine things like connectors and switches, places like The
Source often have a parts corner - though I fear it's headed the way of
Radio Shack's parts section.
As for who knows how any longer, the first thing that comes to mind is
rock band guitar techs, probably because one of the few electronics
techs I know who worked in a job which still exists was one.