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Smarty
- Jan 1, 1970
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Smarty said:
William Sommerwerck said:http://www.heathkit.com/heathkit-faq.html
It's likely to be as successful as the attempt by former Polaroid employees to
revive Polaroid integral materials. Which is to say, not at all.
The whole point of electronic kits was to offer something you couldn't buy
assembled (such as robots), or test equipment, Amateur equipment, audio
amplifiers, etc, that cost a lot more assembled.
This is over. Cheap labor from the Orient, combined with the switch to SMDs,
have largely destroyed the possibility of kits being less-expensive than
assembled items, let alone offering something you can't get assembled.
Elecraft makes Amateur kits, but there's probably not a large-enough market
for Heath to enter. As for test equipment...
http://www.elecraft.com
Graymark still has an nice selection of real kits:
http://www.graymarkint.com/index_productdirectory.htm#komponent_kits
I love that they haven't wimped out and still have kits with 120V power cords and
those back of the stereo receptacles to run lights and stuff.
We had a real badass science teach in grade school that had us build these and do
other slightly weird things like "microchemistry" where all reactions were done
in capillary tubes which we had to work into test tubes with alcohol burners.
William Sommerwerck said:
Sorry, but I would have to disagree that the whole point was about stuff
that you couldn't buy.
The ham radio market is potentially huge, and I would have thought a good
place for them to enter. And what say you about test equipment? There is
still a market for things like ESR meter kits, and bench power supplies,
audio signal generators, simple RF generators and so on.
Why do people keep passing this on, and to a repair newsgroup to boot?
The thing about Heathkit was it sold to everyone. LIke I said the last"Arfa Daily" wrote in message
Please re-read what I said. (See above.)
Yes, there's already ESR meter kits. And this new iteration of HeathkitTo paraphrase Lois Lane... How huge is it?
Heath is going to have to come up with some come pretty Amateur and test
products to compete with existing kit manufacturers.
Ken Layton said:Graymark, now that's a name I haven't heard in many years. Back in 1969 I was in the 9th grade and we each built a Graymark tube AM table radio kit for electronics class. It was fun.