Nice, yeah. Ive never had problems with it either. Even at the end if you could find what you wanted at the shack it was usually ok. It was really sad when the component section just kept getting smaller and smaller.... They were the product of an era where you were still expected and even encouraged to fix your own stuff or to even build things.
Some of their components were shit. For example, they sold a LM337 regulator - I swear those were floor sweepings because I could build the example circuit in the data manual and they'd self-destruct with noise.
Tools, solder, wire? No problem at all. They used to sell Pratt-Read rebrands and even had Xcelite tools for a while before Cooper moved them to China.
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