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You know, Fred you can use an Electra branded scanner as a precision signal generator. Just add 10.8 Mhz to the frequency you want to generate a signal over. Obviously, it won't work with a "rock bound" scanner. But you can use it on the fly with a programmable Electra scanner... Including a pocket scanner.

I just recently tossed a few away.. in the basement on shelves collecting dust…..wooden cases LED sequential chasing lights.

The secondary for the filaments is only 0.8A and therefore already max utilised. So I replaced the pilot lamp with 2 anti parallel LEDs with series resistor. And for the battery voltage I have a DC to DC converter with prior a diode and smoothing capacitance for AC/DC, costs nothing more. Overall, I now consume less than original and do get 6.3 VAC filament voltage.

Very Cool looking Scanners! never seen those before Fred.

Excellent place. Always there when I need something.

I wish there was one like this close by to where I live. I would visit multiple times out of the week, if not every day! And I would always walk out with something to show support.

I worked in a similar place for 34 years. But over the years the business faded to such a point we had to close the doors. That was in 2007, so I've been retired since then. I still miss it.

Nice sounding radio! Seen them for sale on ebay here in the UK but they usually ask too much for them.

Awesome troubleshooting and tune up on that sweet radio! Great stuff!

absolutely right!

Very cool little radio Fred. I really like the detachable speakers that are amplified. Seriously cool. I started on a Grundig 2220U last week. It’s ugly like me. It has hope to clean up unfortunately I don’t lol. Great video pal. Keep em coming.

Very true

This place is absolutely amazing!! With the inventory of parts, tools, cables, test gear!! There was an awesome electronics distributor Al Lasher's in Berkeley, CA along University Avenue started in the early 60's. This place was a goldmine packed to the ceiling and every nook and cranny with electronics parts. Books, test gear, wire, thousands of tubes rows of resistors and capacitors, IC's batteries even had a tube tester. Plus home alarm systems. I bought a lot of parts over the years, including a replacement case for my soldering gun. And tips for my soldering station. While I relocated to another state, I saw on line they had closed about 3 yrs ago.. very sad. a wonderful place.... with the slogan I Found It at Lasher's.

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Reminds me of Trans-Am Electronics on Canal Street run by old man Gus...they were better days for sure.

Good to know

Not sorry China! Buy local having it in your hands before you buy! Is priceless!

Many of the items in the store are made in China unfortunately. I still go out of my way to buy items made in the US, especially tools.

I am in North Carolina; unlike some down here, I really dont mind being up there. But there are so many tolls & crap you have to go through to get there.

Brings out the nerd in me.

I go to Paul for all my electronic needs. He's a great guy

OMG, I haven't been to Wayne Electronics in many, many years. I honestly didn't know it was still in business with all the Radio Shacks and small electronic parts stores closing. I just assumed this store also closed down. I'll check out Wayne Electronics the next time I'm looking for some small electronic parts instead of looking online at Digikey, Mouser or Jameco and paying $3.00 for 10 12V zener diodes and $8.00 for shipping.

The is an electronic parts store in Troy NY near 101st and 5th Ave The cost of parts when you order a lot of them online is so low, these stores are for people who need the part now Radio Shack was done in by the Internet They charged 5 dollars for an antenna adapter, if you can wait 3 weeks you can get 10 of them from China for a dollar So, people just ordered online and they would go to RS and buy it, use it for 3 weeks till the order arrives from China, then they returned the RS part Lots of returns like this in the late 90s They were a great place to buy a scanner on sale And for a short time they were a great place to buy an RCA satellite system On sale But so many bad decisions by the corporation The ADI600 that was the HTX204? That was a dual band ham radio that did full VHF and UHF and 800 band was a high demand radio even at their price, but they pulled them off the shelf after 2 days So many items like that they pulled And they hated their customers

In the Hudson Valley, we had Greylock Electronics/Hi-Fi Center. They closed in the nineties. Those stores are sorely missed.

A terrific time-warp video. I was just there in 1975. 😅 Must be doing well? it was difficult to see past the many customers 🙄

I need to check them out soon. Also from the area.

Do a video on Greenbrook Electronics at 945 US Highway 22 W, North Plainfield NJ 07060

Great store! been there many times!

Hint move camera around smooth and slow.

There was a place like that near me in RI called Avtec Electronics. He was expensive and the items on the shelves were yellowing from being there for so long. He would just relabel them with higher prices. Trying to build a project using items from his store would have cost a mint. He finally closed about two years ago. I abandoned him long before that for eBay and Digikey. Digikey has good prices, and offers low USPS shipping on small orders.

Does he have a website?

While in Vo Tech school in the late 1960's used to get off the L train in Philly and walk across the street to Penn Electronics. Still have the Simpson model 260 VOM meter book that I purchased there. Was probably the last place that still had a free tube tester along with great tube stock. Think it cost me a little over a dollar for either the 35W4 rectifiers tube or 50C5 tube for my old radio. Grew up wiring in American Flyer train sets with several pairs of switches, erector sets then some great Healthkit kits. Kids today do not even know which way to turn a screwdriver.

Democrats have destroyed everything. Board it up after the election.

I really wanted to watch this video, but man oh man that camera work got my eyes spinning! Wish I lived closer!

Buy local!…absolutely!, especially when everything they sell in the store is American made!, sorry China, sorry big box stores. I love this place!

I havent been to that show in a few years. Sorry I missed it! Cool to see KJI there as well. That sign woukd have been coming home with me.

Wow. I haven’t been there in a couple of years. I bought a bunch of capacitors for a radio restoration project a few years ago. Glad they’re still there.

Love them, when I was younger, but the customers just aren’t there anymore. Lafayette, Radio Shack, etc. Loved flipping through the Catalogs. And China, they’re the only country making these components; flip to the back of those packages. Walmart send American businesses to China back in the 1980’s. I also loved building the plastic models from Aurora, Revell, Monogram, Airfix, etc. Kids today are play video games on their phones, but gluing model kits. It’s a different world.

Glad to see the store is still around.

Paul is the best in the business!

I have been there many times when I used to live in West Milford. Glad to see that they are still surviving.

Greenbrook Electronics in North Plainfield NJ, is very similar. They have been around since the 60's, used to go there with dad. Now i go there with my grandkids.

Great store! Had no idea it existed. This store reminds me of the long gone Gem Electronics on Rt 17 in Paramus. Between Gem, Lafayette down the road on the other side and Radio Shack, I had a plethora of parts shops to explore growing up.

Absolutely amazing! Great stuff Fred!

Gotsta take me a ride on the GSP North, exit 155P, route 20 to route 80 west to 23 north!

Wow! Amazing that a store like that still exists today! Awesome Fred!!!!

Fred- this video didn’t show up on my feed! Thank God I found it! What an awesome hamfest- the tables at 6:25 on were fantastic and great prices on some cool stuff! Excellent!!! 😃👍

Fred- Interesting note- While trying to find out how to calibrate my old Weston the manual says the meter should be laying flat on its back for accurate reading! Go figure! 🫣😂👍