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Viewmaster wrote:I find Maplin a very poor shop now compared with what is was 10-20 years ago....and that bloody music thundering out in their shops is a big turn off for me. Albert.
Steve Anderson wrote:When I was last back in the UK in 2006 I decided to take a stoll up Edgware Road and just browse all the electronics shops, not to buy anything unless I saw something that caught my eye.....
...they've all gone! I'm not including PCs, phones or consumer stereos and the like. It was a real blow. So I retreated to the pub next to the Edgware Road tube station.
A sign of the times I guess, most are too lazy to build things themselves, all they want is instant gratification.
Steve A.
Steve Anderson wrote:Agreed Albert, remember those big fat Maplin catalogues printed on cheap paper you could get in WHSmith for a quid fifty?
Steve A.
Viewmaster wrote:I bought this when the price was £1.25. Albert.
AncientBrit wrote:>
re Engineeering Supplies, welding goggles.
I wonder what the response time is for the automatic darkening welding goggles, and what mechanism is employed. Liquid crystal?
AncientBrit wrote:>viewmaster
Yes, I've heard of smart glass but I'd always understood that it had a fairly slow response like photochromic lenses in spectacles.
Still another avenue to explore,
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