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I am fairly sure I bought this when I was ~14 at a actual RadioShack. I have several other spools but when you are hobbyist that has too littlie time on your hands, things like this last a long time. Well, that and I forget where the hell I packed things when moving so I buy more stuff.

I was working on a minor project and thought it was funny and that you might agree. Also, ive owned several of those "fire starter" irons they used to sell. Ive upgraded but still use some fairly basic stuff. @stupidbird

I am fairly sure I bought this when I was ~14 at a actual RadioShack. I have several other spools but when you are hobbyist that has too littlie time on your hands, things like this last a long time. Well, that and I forget where the hell I packed things when moving so I buy more stuff. I was working on a minor project and thought it was funny and that you might agree. Also, ive owned several of those "fire starter" irons they used to sell. Ive upgraded but still use some fairly basic stuff. @stupidbird

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I still have a partial spool of Radio Shack solder. It's probably from around 1998 or so, but I went through at least 100 rolls through the 80s and 90s before I switched to Ersin Multicore solder in the late 90s. I also have some Radio Shack silver solder from the late 80s packed up in some box in the garage somewhere. Probably in the same box with some RS Micronta digital multimeters from the 80s. I ditched the "pencil" irons from RS long ago and still regularly use my beloved 35 years old Ungar UTC-200 soldering station more often than my modern stations. Good times those days were.