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ian wrote: Sun Feb 28, 2021 12:23 am I haven't been to either in a good few years, but Jaycar was veering off completely into the toys and tat that dick smith transitioned to last time I went in, but from what a friend has told me, they are actually back on track with electronic components and they can actually order stuff in in a timely manner if a store doesn't have a particulat part. which is what you want.

I will be going to jaycar soon because I want to wire some lights for my slot cars, both Altronics stores in Melbourne are no where near me (40 minutes) but I have 3 Jaycars within 20 minutes.
Well the good news is a Jaycar has opened where the old blinds shop was. So now the only stores closer to me than Jaycar are 711 and Bob Jane T-marts.
Shame to see the blinds store go. Along with the sandwich shop down the road they were the oldest remaining shop in the area.

but now I can easily and quickly do random projects!
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ian wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 10:12 am
ian wrote: Sun Feb 28, 2021 12:23 am I haven't been to either in a good few years, but Jaycar was veering off completely into the toys and tat that dick smith transitioned to last time I went in, but from what a friend has told me, they are actually back on track with electronic components and they can actually order stuff in in a timely manner if a store doesn't have a particulat part. which is what you want.

I will be going to jaycar soon because I want to wire some lights for my slot cars, both Altronics stores in Melbourne are no where near me (40 minutes) but I have 3 Jaycars within 20 minutes.
Well the good news is a Jaycar has opened where the old blinds shop was. So now the only stores closer to me than Jaycar are 711 and Bob Jane T-marts.
Shame to see the blinds store go. Along with the sandwich shop down the road they were the oldest remaining shop in the area.

but now I can easily and quickly do random projects!
In the last few weeks I've gotten a soldering iron, another USB encoder, and a bunch of other random crap from Jaycar. I just keep buying random shit :olol:

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Sounds like a me in JB or bunnings problem, Random shit. I imagine now I have one right next door, I will buy a bunch of random shit from there too.
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He still looks younger than Rupert Murdoch.

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Bandit wrote: Wed Jun 02, 2021 10:12 am
Dang, I might have to unironically buy a 10-pound tube of ground beef at Costco. I've done it before and made my own 1-pound vacuum packs at home for the freezer.

I usually buy my steaks there too, so I might have to do some panic buying for the summer.

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Turns out Outback does have some rules.

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Maybe he's not so bad.

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The thread has had a bit of a name update.

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