That Vintage Weber was
@ Don Keedix
Best to keep the wife happy @bonamoleonard
that girl can Cook 
Yeah, that was me that restored the 25 year old Weber. I posted sometime back in here when I finished, about six or seven months back.
Anywho, ran two tanks through it already. Works flawlessly and cooks great.
Well, color me green and call me jealous.
Then I did a search, found they (Radio Shack) maintain a website (awesome) and list a few retailers and resellers. So I get a little hopeful, type in my zipcode, see my city come up,get wayyyyy toooooo excited, hit enter thinking the location that used to be near me just moved somewhere and didnât advertiseâŚ
âThere are no Radio Shack Locations Near YouâŚâ
instant depression.
My first computer was a Tandy (Radio Shackâs brand for you younger folks) CoCo 64K The CoCo stood for Color Computer.
My mom wouldnât let me touch a soldering iron (seriously stunted my development) until I was 14, but I always dreamed of making something out of their kits just I never really had the money as a kid (single mom) I wish I would have spent the money I made shoveling driveways and mowing lawns into making electronics. Probably would have saved me a lot of busted knuckles and arthritis working on cars.
But then as an adult the local stores pivoted away from the cool stuff to sell phones and accessories I would just go in now and then for capacitors and soldering supplies 
sometimes you just gotta listen to your inner child and I spent most of my adulthood ignoring mine.
Radio Shack sold kits, and there were Heathkits to build console color TVs even. I used to have bread boards that you could plug components into and use jumper wires to connect them and you could test the circuit design, then some serious electronics stores that sold HAM radios, etc had equipment to make your own printed circuit boards.
I once repaired and old Fender Champ tube amp for my older brother. Replaced a tube socket that was burned, and of course a new tube. The place I am referring to was just outside of Kessler AFB, Ms. which is a huge electronics technician school for the Air Force. I completed basic electronics course and Air Traffic control (Narrow Band) radio technician school there in 1991. Started out as a B-52 aerial gunner, but they removed the tail gun immediately after the first Gulf War and I was given the option of picking another enlisted flight crew job on any aircraft, but was tired of flying after 11 years, and elected to retrain into electronics.
I am still interested, and have retained a lot, and use that knowledge on the job as an electrician. Tinker with things and repair what I can, but no longer have oâscopes, signal generators, etc to really repair, align and tune radio equipment.
I miss Radio Shack. With its closure we have lost the ability to fix things.
That is untouchable!!!
bwahahhaahaha
does it come with instructions?
You can tell thatâs OLD just by the ash tray mounted in front.
Ainât much get by you âHâ
@Rufus
Lower right Japanese âtax stickersâ paid.
Reckon it was a gambling game over yonder
The pachinko thing in Japan is nuts, itâs not technically gambling, but itâs totally gambling. You go into a parlor, play pachinko, take the balls you receive out of the building go down the street and trade your pachinko balls to the Yakuza who pay you out.
What could go wrong !
well itâs gambling sooooooooâŚeverything. At least with pachinko though itâs not like you can make a bet bigger than the money you haveâŚso silver linings
Did a tour of Brushy Mountain State Pen in April. The freakiest feeling place l have ever stepped foot in! Over a 110 prisoners murdered and over 10,000 died there. To include 17 are in-tombed in one of 3 coal mines. Hard labor was 2 ton of coal mined by each and if they missed that quota they was tied to the whipping postâŚthat abuse ended mid to late 60âs. Facility never had AC just steam heat. It closed in 2009
Reading and accepting this sign is the tour contract.
The hole
James Earl Ray cell
Counting the days in oneâŚsome faith in the other
Federal cell blocks and they never got to go outside. It had AC
End of the Line Moonshine is made there in the old maintenance bldg
Our guide (R) Bill Harvey worked there for 27 yrsâŚand the stories he told
Evil residence day-time or night..
They offer paranormal tours at night!
NOT ME!!!
man that place looks interesting.. id do a night tour..