Whoa! MKE on the front page is epic!
I found out about sci-plus from the other Milwaukee staple, red letter media. Not sure which episode, but I could find it with grep if needed.
note: Best of the Worst： Ben and Arthur [Xto-7_xWb9g]
Long live American Science and Surplus
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Re: Long live American Science and Surplus
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a great recommendation, thanks! I've found a lot of interesting old radio hobbyist magazines on the Archive, whose copyright has expired. While it's great to see how people could get stuff done with the very limited electrical resources available in the 01910s and 01920s, many of the designs depend on materials that are now hard to find, while materials that are now easy to find (like PN2222s) didn't exist.
We have a big and ongoing focus on amateur radio right now thanks to a grant from ARDC and really hard work by our awesome Program Manager Kay Savetz. Worth checking out: https://blog.archive.org/2022/11/16/digital-library-of-amate... https://archive.org/details/dlarc
Thanks! I had no idea! Your work is one of the three or four most important projects sustaining civilization right now; it will be profoundly missed when it's gone.
Re: Long live American Science and Surplus
#83Anyone know a way to find stores in other areas with this kind of spirit? Weird Stuff in Sunnyvale used to feel a bit like this to me.
Jameco in Belmont, CA jameco.com
This is my Bay Area resource for electronic parts in a pinch.
Re: Long live American Science and Surplus
#84I knew them as Jerryco in my childhood:
> And the business was launched as American Lens & Photo.
> After the Second World War the company expanded, fed by war surplus. Eventually, Al opened a retail store on Chicago's Northwest side called American Science Center and started carrying educational science items.
> (...) In 1979 he started a catalog operation under the name "Jerryco" and in 1981 he opened a second store, in Milwaukee.
Re: Long live American Science and Surplus
#85Anyone know a way to find stores in other areas with this kind of spirit? Weird Stuff in Sunnyvale used to feel a bit like this to me.
Skycraft Surplus in Orlando: https://skycraftsurplus.com/
I was there last week (in town on business), and I found a Vector 3677-2 protoboard for $2!
Re: Long live American Science and Surplus
#86Nugatory Contrivances is a way better name imo. But ya, long live them.
Re: Long live American Science and Surplus
#87Years ago, my spouse thought I had marked an item in a sciplus catalog and so bought it for me as a birthday gift. I unwrapped it to find a plain brown box with an L-shaped metal fitting of some sort with a single black insulated wire that’s terminated with a spade lug. I have never figured out what it is.
Maybe to ground a metal workbench?
Re: Long live American Science and Surplus
#88This fundraiser is important to many at HN, and I think it would be good to consider having some new category of HN like “pinned” for important things that shouldn’t fall off quickly and allow users to suggest a moderator “pin” a post. Similarly pinned things would have “unpin” and a sufficient number of unpins would signal to moderator to unpin it. I’m worried that not everyone will see this because of the normal cycle of posts. You could argue that the current way works well for most things, but pinning is an important part of most forums.
Re: Long live American Science and Surplus
#89What a wonderfully weird store. If I ever need to buy an under powered can opener,some screen protectors for my palm pilot and I life size terracotta warrior for $1200 without going to multiple places I know now where to go.
https://sciplus.com/screen-protectors-2-15-16-x-2-1-4-12-pac...
https://sciplus.com/under-powered-automatic-can-opener-for-p...
https://sciplus.com/lifesize-terra-cotta-warrior/?searchid=1...
Re: Long live American Science and Surplus
#90Years ago, my spouse thought I had marked an item in a sciplus catalog and so bought it for me as a birthday gift. I unwrapped it to find a plain brown box with an L-shaped metal fitting of some sort with a single black insulated wire that’s terminated with a spade lug. I have never figured out what it is.
We need a photo!