Maplin component bag. - UK Vintage Radio Repair and Restoration Discussion Forum

Kentode · 30th Aug 2018, 8:24 pm

I'm currently looking through an old friends equipment for a silent key sale.

With the recent demise of Maplins l just wanted to share this with you, to remind us all what a great resource it was.

Can anyone date the bag? Anything rifa-like to watch for?

60 oldjohn · 30th Aug 2018, 8:47 pm

Hi Ken, that number is shown in the 2011 /12 cat as L bag foil caps £5.29. I don't know when they started that line. Is there small print somewhere with a date code?

John.

ricard · 30th Aug 2018, 11:23 pm

Hadn't heard about Maplin's demise - not surprising really since I don't live in the UK and haven't bought anything from them for many years. I've still got a couple of catalogs from the 1970s-1980s somewhere. Sad that they went down.

TonyDuell · 31st Aug 2018, 5:10 am

I was studying in Bristol in the early 1990s and I remember every year when the new catalogue came out the local Maplin would have bags of the discontinued components, mostly ICs, for sale. I bought most of them I think..

Still have a lot of the bits, although obviously not in the original bags.

Kentode · 31st Aug 2018, 7:15 am

I'll be trying to go over the rest of his component stock in more detail shortly. I've found a bag of rifas (boo...) and a bag of Mullard mustards (hurrah...).

Unfortunately as these things seem to happen in threes, two family deaths in the last two days mean I'll be a bit occupied for a while. Back shortly.

Paul Stenning · 31st Aug 2018, 8:33 am

Quote:

Originally Posted by ricard

Hadn't heard about Maplin's demise - not surprising really since I don't live in the UK and haven't bought anything from them for many years. I've still got a couple of catalogs from the 1970s-1980s somewhere. Sad that they went down.

Discussed at length here https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...d.php?t=140825

30th Aug 2018, 8:24 pm	#1
Kentode Octode Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Yorkshire, England. Posts: 1,303	Maplin component bag. I'm currently looking through an old friends equipment for a silent key sale. With the recent demise of Maplins l just wanted to share this with you, to remind us all what a great resource it was. Can anyone date the bag? Anything rifa-like to watch for? Attached Thumbnails __________________ Regards, Ken. BVWS member

30th Aug 2018, 8:47 pm	#2
60 oldjohn Dekatron Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: East Yorkshire, UK. Posts: 3,989	Re: Maplin component bag. Hi Ken, that number is shown in the 2011 /12 cat as L bag foil caps £5.29. I don't know when they started that line. Is there small print somewhere with a date code? John.

30th Aug 2018, 11:23 pm	#3
ricard Octode Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Lund, Sweden Posts: 1,632	Re: Maplin component bag. Hadn't heard about Maplin's demise - not surprising really since I don't live in the UK and haven't bought anything from them for many years. I've still got a couple of catalogs from the 1970s-1980s somewhere. Sad that they went down.

31st Aug 2018, 5:10 am	#4
TonyDuell Dekatron Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: Biggin Hill, London, UK. Posts: 5,224	Re: Maplin component bag. I was studying in Bristol in the early 1990s and I remember every year when the new catalogue came out the local Maplin would have bags of the discontinued components, mostly ICs, for sale. I bought most of them I think.. Still have a lot of the bits, although obviously not in the original bags.

31st Aug 2018, 7:15 am	#5
Kentode Octode Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Yorkshire, England. Posts: 1,303	Re: Maplin component bag. I'll be trying to go over the rest of his component stock in more detail shortly. I've found a bag of rifas (boo...) and a bag of Mullard mustards (hurrah...). Unfortunately as these things seem to happen in threes, two family deaths in the last two days mean I'll be a bit occupied for a while. Back shortly. __________________ Regards, Ken. BVWS member