• coaxil@aussie.zone
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    6 months ago

    Oh man, my soldering iron died, and I need another soldering iron to repair, dug out my cheap kicker iron, guess what? Also non functional, another trip to jaycar! 2 times in a week and had not been into one for years and years before this week.

    • 𝚝𝚛𝚔@aussie.zone
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      6 months ago

      Jaycar is such a disappointing place now. Just gadgets for the most part, and a tiny selection of electronics parts that are almost always the crappiest and cheapest versions possible.

      I buy most stuff I need from RS, Mouser, Element14, and DigiKey now.

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        6 months ago

        Yeah it really is kinda sad compared to how it used to be, while I was getting my emergency iron, I got a plug and socket terminal block screw header thing, even though got some coming… Thing was not good let’s put it that way :(