I hate Radio Shack

On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Ben Franchuk wrote: I was in Rat Shack yesterday, buying a momentary pushbutton for my new-old truck. The starter contacts in the ignition switch are fried, and my little bro has just hot-wired it for 3 years. I wanted to hot-wire it _neatly_. The guy there is accustomed to seeing me come in for DE9 connectors, hoods, & computer stuff, and always asks "What are you building this time?" He doesn't know anything, but at least he's curious... I found a push-button rated at 3A, 125VAC, and brought it up. Darrell says "Building one from scratch now, are ya?" I told him no, it's a starter switch for my pickup. He refused to sell it to me, because "Those starters pull 20 or 30 amps, and that's *DC*, too! That switch will only stand 1.5 amps, since it's rated at 3A *AC*!" I did literally have to go to the other Rat Shack to get my switch. Which is grossly overrated for that solenoid circuit. Jeez. Doc