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Vancouver's Main Electronics is closing
I went to check their hours on their website and was stunned to find this message.
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They were the last old but really good component stores in the Vancouver area. I travelled 300km to pick up supplies. They were also very skilled with older items and could get you just about any belt, capacitor or tube you needed, plus there was a tester in the corner. I remember hearing about Danny passing earlier in the year but Phil is news to me. I know they have a number of gems in their inventory and a lot of NOS TV and radio components. No onesies or twosies for ordering but I'm sure if you are looking to build a large inventory of parts it might be worth contacting them for a detailed list of their inventory. |
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So sad, but it is the demise of the old guard electronic parts places these days. The one here has three of the most experienced parts guys in the area - and two are in their 60s, and one is north of 55 years of age. No youngster to train, no competitor to give them any real edge - they just outlasted or bought out all others.
I worked there in the 80s, when I was the youngest, and the oldest was 73. What a range of parts gurus too - from Sarnoff to Sony, Tesla to Teknika the boss used to say. He'd demand we learn a new tidbit every day - pick up the catalogs, pick up the reference guides, and read. I memorized all of the computer interfaces one day, all of the phono idlers we stocked the next, the HH Smith color codes for binding posts, all of the 3-terminal regulators, all of the various DMMs we sold, and on and on. Saturdays, I was the go-to guy, as the older guys worked M-F only. Nowadays, no Saturday, and no "real" repair parts - just leftovers and lots of pretty colored stuff...if NTE didn't make it, they wouldn't carry it.
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Brian USN RET (Avionics / Cal) CET- Consumer Repair and Avionics ('88) "Capacitor Cosmetologist since '79" When fuses go to work, they quit! |
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Sorry to hear that. We had a similar kind of electronics store here in Houston that was one of my favorite places to shop. It closed for a very different reason, though. A hospital wanted the land to build a parking garage. They offered the owner an obscene amount of money and of course he accepted. When it was being liquidated I got to go into the back room. Only about a third of the massive building was open to the public and I always wondered what was in the rest of it. Turns out it was a shooting range, and over the years they had been using it for some sort of government R&D... |
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