4 Apr
2012
4 Apr
'12
8:07 p.m.
My son bought this kit from a yard sale... but there is no manual.? I read on the internet
that you might have the manual for this kit? It is the 75 in 1 made by Tandy for Radio
Shack.
?
Thanks so much for any help.
?
Wayne
5 Apr
5 Apr
8:53 a.m.
Try Elenco's website, they OEM'd most of Radio Shack's electronic kits.
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Wayne Light <bud7388 at yahoo.com> wrote:
My son bought this kit from a yard sale... but there
is no manual. I read
on the internet that you might have the manual for this kit? It is the 75
in 1 made by Tandy for Radio Shack.
Thanks so much for any help.
Wayne
9:25 a.m.
On Apr 5, 2012, at 8:53 AM, Jason McBrien wrote:
Try Elenco's website, they OEM'd most of Radio
Shack's electronic kits.
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Wayne Light <bud7388 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> My son bought this kit from a yard sale... but there is no manual. I read
> on the internet that you might have the manual for this kit? It is the 75
> in 1 made by Tandy for Radio Shack.
Oh man, I remember that kit. That thing got me started in electronics. Lots of fond
memories!
- Dave
9:38 a.m.
> My son
bought this kit from a yard sale... but there is no manual. I read
> on the internet that you might have the manual for this kit? It is the 75
> in 1 made by Tandy for Radio Shack.
Oh man, I remember that kit. That thing got me started in electronics.
Lots of fond memories! 
2:36 p.m.
I have a 30 in 1 and a 160 in 1. They really were
great to learn with. If I
ever spawn, I'll probably unleash it on the larvae.
FWIW, I always prefered the Philip EE series of kits. Rather than just
conencitng wies between spring terminals,. you got to handle 'real'
components which you conneted to spring terminals. And some of the
circutis were quite interesting (I had the old UK system EE1003, 1004,
1105). I can remember building a beat-frequence audio oscillator, a wien
bridge auto oscilaltor (with a lamp to stabilise it ;-)), several
superhet radios and measuing the response of the IF transformer.
-tony
11:56 a.m.
On 04/05/2012 09:25 AM, David Riley wrote:
Really!! Very cool. I got my start in electronics with the 65-in-1
kit, when I was 7. I remember that Christmas morning very, very well.
We lived in Bordentown, NJ.
My mother and grandmother were sitting at the kitchen table talking,
and I was where any kid would be on Christmas morning, on the living
room floor. I built the "electronic organ" kit, basically an oscillator
driving the speaker, frequency controlled by the variable resistor,
switched by the key. I guess my mother and grandmother thought of it
more as a "toy", but I remember both of their heads whipping around like
lightning when I hit the key and it went "BEEP!"
Coincidentally, just last week I scored a 65-in-1 kit via eBay,
complete except for the 2xAA battery holder and its two spring
terminals. I received and opened the box two days ago. I really wasn't
prepared for the flood of emotions and memories, I almost got
misty-eyed. Almost. ;)
Good for the soul.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
> My son
bought this kit from a yard sale... but there is no manual. I read
> on the internet that you might have the manual for this kit? It is the 75
> in 1 made by Tandy for Radio Shack.
Oh man, I remember that kit. That thing got me started in electronics. Lots of fond
memories! 
2:09 p.m.
On 5 April 2012 16:56, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
?Really!! ?Very cool. ?I got my start in electronics
with the 65-in-1
kit, when I was 7. ?I remember that Christmas morning very, very well.
Ah memories..
I was about the same age when I got introduced to electronics. My mum
was a teacher, but her school and my primary school holidays
occasionally didn't match, so I'd end up sat at the back of her class
(she taught Biology) making up simple circuits on some sort of
industrial-strength (i.e. almost teenager-proof) pegboard system that
my mother borrowed from the science labs!
I then got one of the 65-in-1-type kits, second hand, though sadly I
can't remember what type or even make. I remember it did radios and a
"burglar alarm", (light sensitive resistor, and torch, either side of
a doorway) and it wasn't much further on that I graduated to soldering
up single-use kits from Tandy,
Fun :-)
Rob
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