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ChadTower:

Just one on top of a billion complaints about the place... but apparently they no longer carry replacement tips for their soldapult.   :banghead:

shardian:
Yes, unfortunately Radio Shack has forgotten their roots. If you aren't there to buy a cell-phone accessory or low end/overpriced stereo equipment you are out of luck. The majority of their employees treat the hobby/electrical component section like a toxic waste dump - they are afraid to go anywhere near it.

You are lucky they carry what they do as it is.

Try this vendor:
http://www.etool.ca/eTool/RENDER/1/71/380/3781.html

ChadTower:

$22 for the tool!  The one at MCM is $6.   ;D

If the MCM replacement tips don't fit (I just sent them an email asking if they know), I'll just buy the $6 MCM soldapult and a bunch of $1.25 replacement tips.

AtomSmasher:
Last time I went to a radio shack it was locating inside of a mall (which is the closest one to me), when I opened the drawers in the electrical component section all of them were either empty or almost empty.  When I asked the guy at the counter where all of their stuff went, he said they stopped restocking that section a long time ago and I should go to a radio shack not located in a mall if I wanted any of that type of stuff.

ChadTower:

I did get a lot of good stuff when the local strip mall Radio Shack was closed... their high end DMM for $30, two shopping bags full of components for like $10, the desoldering iron for $5, etc etc... spent $100 and came out with half a carload of stuff.

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